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Your iPhone’s Keyboard Has Superpowers — Here’s How to Unlock Them

Master the iPhone ‘Keyboard-Sutra’ and type 2x faster

11 min readMay 13, 2025
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Do you also struggle to draft a long message explaining to your spouse why you did what you did? That’s because you’ve been using your iPhone’s keyboard wrong this whole time, and it’s not your fault.

The keyboard is the most underestimated aspect of the iPhone’s operating system. Although it appears pretty basic from the outside, only about 1% of iPhone users are aware of its full potential.

After all, the keyboard looked pretty much the same for over a decade, ever since its redesign in iOS 7. But that’s not the case. Over the years, Apple has done a great job of making the keyboard super handy for daily use.

In this article, I’ll be making your iPhone typing experience as smooth as a baby’s buttcheeks. Here we go:

1. Basic Swiping Gestures

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All these times when your wife asked you to make good use of your fingers, she was talking about the swiping gestures of your iPhone’s keyboard. Here they are:

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The Evil Geek
The Evil Geek

Written by The Evil Geek

Alter ego of an extremely handsome man. Hiding in the shadows, I write about tech. Muahahaha!

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