To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

Keyboard shortcuts for text formatting involve holding down two or three keys at a time to alter the appearance of text. Common commands like bolding, underlining, or italicizing text are similar on ...

If you're sick of typing the same text over and over, the iPhone's text replacement feature is your way out. It’s simple, powerful, and it quietly changed how I communicate every single day. Text ...

Apple’s macOS comes with several useful features. Text Replacement (also referred to as text expansion) is one such macOS feature that helps you type faster on your Mac. For the uninitiated, the ...

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What are these hidden Android shortcuts? Before you run off selecting everything on your device, let me first define what I’m specifically referring to. The shortcuts in question appear when a simple ...

Thanks to iCloud, Apple’s OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 let you use the same Shortcuts for text entry on your Mac as on your mobile device. Here’s how to enable and use the feature. You’ve been able to ...

If you use emojis, the iOS keyboard is fantastic. It suggests emojis for you as you type words, and you can insert them into your messages with a tap. But what about the Mac? How can you add emojis ...

Google is now widely rolling out the ability to “Create text notes by default,” as well as an Audio shortcut, in Keep for Android. Once enabled, tapping the FAB (floating action button) will ...