Mandatory iPhone Shortcut [Punctuation/Capitalization With One Motion]
By Daniel Miessler on July 7th, 2007: Tagged as Gadgets | Productivity | Technology | iPhone
One of the most bothersome things I’ve noticed about the iPhone is the fact that it takes too many steps to enter a period (.), question mark (?), or any other punctuation. You have to click the [.?123] key to switch modes, hit the punctuation mark you want, and then switch back to keep typing.
Well, you don’t actually need to do that. Instead, just press and hold the [.?123] key, drag to the character you want to use, and then release. The character you release on is the one that gets entered (works for numbers, too), and upon releasing you go back into normal text entry mode.
Oh, and I just figured out you can also capitalize any key using the same trick: hold the capitalization key (up arrow), drag over to the letter you want to capitalize, and release.:
** You can also enter caps lock mode by double-tapping the shift key.
– [David Pogue credits someone named Andrew with the punctuation discovery. Thank you, Andrew]
