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The QuickTime keyboard is pretty great, but if it's not great for you, there's a lot you can do to customize and even replace it.
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How to customize your keyboard on iPhone and iPad How to quickly switch apps using the keyboard on the iPad.How to discover keyboard shortcuts on iPad.
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You can use text expanders on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android so while this post focuses on iOS, feel free to try it out on any platform you use frequently to improve your efficiency.By default, the iPhone and iPad ship with "omw" as a shortcut for "On my way!" but you can create and customize any shortcut you want. It's also a great way to create canned email responses, use different signatures or quickly input commonly used text. you're really only limited by your own preferences. You could use other character combinations as well such em1, em2 etc. If you have additional addresses just add more shortcuts and simply add another whenever you have to enter your email instead of having to type it all out just hit and continue adding an symbol until you get to the email you want to use. For instance, if you had a business email you wanted to create a shortcut for as well, you would input the email address into the "Phrase" box and in the "Shortcut" box you would type After saving you would now have a quick way to input either email address, simply hit in on your keyboard to input your personal email or to fill in your business email. Congratulations, you just created your first keyboard shortcut!For each additional email you may have, you can just create another keyboard shortcut and add another symbol. So what we're going to do is choose a short combination of characters which will then turn into a long string of text.To start click the "+" icon in the top rightIn the "Phrase" box go ahead and type out your email address and in the "Shortcut" box put in Now hit Save in the top right.
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This functionality acts just like a text expander software would on a PC (which is also another useful tool). Basically, you can tell iOS to auto fill some text for you anytime you type certain keywords into your phone.

Perfect, I thought! Another little annoyance that could now be knocked out, here's how I do it.Fire up your iPhone and head on over to Settings>General>Keyboard>ShortcutsNow you're in the area where the magic happens. Then Apple added keyboard shortcut functionality to iOS.

I don't know about you, but it was more than annoying to have to type out my whole email on a little keyboard all the time. One of those random things that always used to drive me crazy when I first started using a smartphone years ago was having to sign into websites using my email address. If you're like me, you're on your mobile device all the time taking care of all sorts of random things.
