These two tips will save you time typing texts and emails on your iPhone

Who can forget the laugh that then-Microsoft CEO (and now owner of the LA Clippers) Steve Ballmer had after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in January 2007? He first laughed about the price, then said that the business cannot attract users, because it is not attractive. I don’t have a keyboard. As it is now known, Ballmer, along with two of Research in Motion’s co-CEOs (Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis), are trying to figure out how the iPhone will bring significant costs to the company and its shareholders. I had underestimated it.

Speaking of virtual QWERTY, most people are a little more skilled at typing on the iPhone’s QWERTY keyboard, and some Reddit users (via BGR) have shared some tips to make typing on the device faster and easier. I’ve found some.Here’s one quick tip Reddit user’s crypto sage He offers a useful hack for entering numbers and letters, and wants the keyboard to revert to letters after entering numbers. Currently, if he presses the 123 button and taps his one of the numbers or special symbols on the keyboard, he has to tap the 123 button again to go back to the letter.

But try this next time. Press and hold the 123 key with one finger and use another finger to type the number or special symbol you want. 123 When you release the key, QWERTY returns to letters. This works very well and can potentially save you time.

Another way you can save time by using virtual QWERTY on your iPhone, also seen on Reddit (via The US Sun), is called Text Replacement. This feature allows you to replace phrases, addresses, phone numbers, and anything else you type frequently with simple shortcuts. “Set up text substitutions that let you enter words and phrases by typing just a few characters,” he says at Apple.

For example, if you set this, you can type @@ every time you type an email. Although you type @@ on your keyboard, your email address appears instead in email or text messages. To set this up, on your iPhone go to: setting > general > keyboard > Text replacement. You know Apple preloaded his one text replacement on your iPhone because when you type “omw” the text or email says “On the way!” To add your own text replacements, tap the “+” key at the top right of the screen.

A new page appears with two fields at the top of the screen. In the Phrase field, enter the word, number, or phrase you want to create a shortcut for. At the bottom, enter the shortcut you want to use. For example, set your iPhone to type “PhoneArena” every time you type “PA” in a message or email.