How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts on iPhone/iPad

If you are tired of typing common phrases on your iPhone virtual keyboard all the time like your email address, name, job etc then its good to create custom keyboard shortcuts on iPhone for swift typing. The guide below help you to create custom keyboard shortcuts on iPhone and iPad.

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Create Keyboard Shortcuts on iPhone and iPad

Step-1

Tap “Settings” icon from the home screen of your iPhone/iPad and then tap “General” and scroll down to “Keyboard”

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Step-2

Scroll down to “Shortcuts” section and tap on “Add New Shortcut…”

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Step-3

In front of “Phrase”, we enter the text for which we are going to create short key and in “Shortcut” we provide shortcut of our choice and then tap on save button and that’s it

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Now, we can use the equivalent shortcut of the phrase above which is set, whenever we need to type it which is quite an easy and fast method of typing long text via virtual keyboard of iPhone by using little shortcut key.

3 comments… add one
Selena August 28, 2013, 2:23 pm

Really fast typing after having shortcut keys for several of sentences for messages on my iPhone.

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