Gboard, Google's software keyboard for iPhone and iPad with gesture-based typing, search, GIFs, emoji and more, was updated Friday on App Store with a new multilingual typing feature.
Google’s iPhone keyboard introduces multilingual typing
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How to use a secret virtual trackpad on your iPhone to edit text with ease
Learn to position the cursor precisely and quickly select text passages by turning your iPhone's stock keyboard into an effortless virtual trackpad.
How to customize keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word for Mac
If you use Microsoft Word on your Mac, then you have more customization options than you probably realize. The settings can help make your experience more efficient and productive each time you use the application.
One of the settings that helps you move through your word-processing tasks faster is the keyboard shortcuts. Without lifting your fingers from the keyboard to grab your mouse or use your touchpad, you can accomplish a variety of tasks. And you can customize the shortcuts to suit what you use most and which keys are easiest to remember.
Future MacBooks could feature alternative keyboards with touch interfaces
Three new patent applications published on Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office suggest Apple could be rethinking MacBook keyboards for future devices. The patents, which share the name "Device having integrated interface system," discuss ways to improve the MacBook typing experience in connected ways.
TextEmojis lets you type Emojis and more with text shortcuts
A variety of popular third-party messaging apps, including Discord and Slack, let you enter Emojis by typing a colon followed by a specific shortcode. Apple doesn’t provide users with a comparable feature throughout the rest of iOS, but wouldn’t it be nice if they did?
If you answered “yes” to the question above, then you might be happy to learn about a new jailbreak tweak dubbed TextEmojis by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson. Once installed, you’ll be able to input Emojis and other quirky text faces by typing pre-configured text shortcuts.
Tests show silicone membrane on MacBook Pro keyboard doesn’t completely fix dust issue
Adding a thin layer of silicone membrane around each pad on the 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard doesn't completely protect it from dust and other particles. Newly released results from a series of tests by iFixit show that particles can still get in and cause a keypad on the device to malfunction.
Apple admits true role of the silicone membrane in new MacBook Pro [updated]
The real reason Apple updated the keyboard on the 2018 MacBook Pro lineup might have just come into view. France's MacGeneration has discovered an internal document that says the new thin layer of silicone under each key wasn't put there to make the keyboard "quieter," as Apple has publicly stated. Instead, it's to solve reliability problems present on previous generations.
Apple won’t use third-gen keyboards as replacements on older MacBook Pro models
If you were hoping Apple would replace second-generation "butterfly switch" keyboards found on older MacBook Pro models with the recently announced third-generation keyboard, you would be mistaken. Apple has no plans to swap keyboards on older MacBook Pro models, according to MacRumors.
iFixit says 2018 MacBook Pro uses silicone to possibly protect the keyboard from dust
The folks over at iFixit have determined that the keys found on the recently released 2018 MacBook Pro are surrounded by a "thin, silicone barrier." This discovery suggests Apple's third-generation "butterfly switch" keyboard wasn't necessarily designed to be "quieter," like Apple has claimed. Instead, it could have been designed to make it less prone to exposure to dust and other small particles.
Will the “quieter” 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard be a better typing experience?
Earlier today, July 12, Apple introduced an all-new MacBook Pro. In addition to offering a better processor and up to 32GB of RAM, the new tablet also comes with a "quieter" keyboard. Whether this is a better keyboard remains to be seen.
Gboard, Google’s excellent iOS keyboard, picks up Morse code typing in latest update
Google yesterday bumped its Gboard software keyboard for iPhone and iPad to version 1.29, bringing out Morse code typing as well as Dvorak and Colemak layouts for English keyboards.
Apple quietly fixed a bug in iOS 11 that crashed iOS devices when users typed “Taiwan”
iOS 11.3 and below suffered from a bug that crashed iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices when users entered the word “Taiwan” in Messages, Facebook, WhatsApp and other text fields.