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Tip: iPhone - Two Solutions to the Alphabet/Period Problem

By James Alan Miller
July 9, 2007

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For some reason, Apple chose to not include a period on the alphabet section of the iPhone's virtual keyboard. This puts a number of unnecessary steps between the end of a sentence and a period, for example.

The New York Times David Pogue has posted a tip to circumvent this problem:

  •  Tap the ".?123" key, which brings up the numbers and symbols section of the keyboard, but hold leave your finger on that key.
  •  When the numbers/symbols section comes up, slide your finger to the "." key and let go.

    The alphabet section will automatically reappear.

    Tuaw posted an alternative tip in response to Poque's.

  •  Rather than holding the ".?123" key down, tap it like you normally would.
  •  Then tap the "." (or any other character on the number section of the keyboard, for that matter), then hit the spacebar.

    As with the previous tip, this will also automatically bring up the alphabet section of the keyboard.



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    Keyboard with thai characters
    If I hold on for ex. button A i should get a letter A with dots on it. Like my friend does. But instead of that I get some Thailand letters. I've tried to change my keyboard setting to Finnish, but they still remain there. How could I get it fixed? I...more

    Submitted by: Madis Orav



    Great tip!
    That slide to the period technique works perfectly. Totally solves the need for a period on the main screen.It actually works for any of the keys on the non ABC screen. You can just slide your finger to the key and on the release you're back to ...more

    Submitted by: Mike



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