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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This tutorial will show you how to type or enter the Apple logo on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Windows PC, and any web browser.
So, you bought a new wireless keyboard and want to use it with your iOS device. For those who do a lot of typing on their iPhone or iPad, an external keyboard can be more efficient than the onscreen keyboard.
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to pair an external Bluetooth keyboard with your iPhone or iPad so you can comfortably type long notes, emails, and documents.
If you do excessive amounts of typing on your iOS device, then you may be able to benefit from a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed FastDeleteKey by iOS developer CydiaGeek.
FastDeleteKey makes it so that you don't have to wait forever for the keyboard's backspace function to delete large blocks of text. The tweak brings tunable backspace velocities to iOS so that you can move along at just about any rate of speed you desire.