Because iOS is a variant of macOS, it has a lot in common with the Mac. One of the things that iOS shares with the Mac is the keyboard. Not the on-screen keyboard, but the real, physical, ...

GIFs are a fun and often humorous way to interact via text. A GIF keyboard is automatically built into any iPhone running iOS 10 or later, allowing you to send pictures to convey thoughts or ideas.

I collect text editors the way other people collect stamps. Do people still collect stamps? Let's assume they do, and in great abundance. When a new editor comes out I've got to see what it does. This ...

We've looked at various folding portable keyboards designed to make it easy for those that like some tactile feedback when entering text on mobile devices. But California-based WayTools has taken a ...

OS 26.2 autocorrect issues made typing frustrating on my iPhone. Here are quick tweaks that helped restore control.

While clicking and dragging is useful for selecting blocks of text, it can be cumbersome for finer selections, such as selecting individual characters or text that extends across multiple screens.

Emoji are sooooo last year. It’s almost 2017 and it’s time to change things up. You’ve been sending messages packed full of emoji for years now, just like everyone else. In fact, even your parents and ...

Back in 2010, I wrote about the predictive text keyboard on Windows Phone and over time have come to find it is the best native smartphone keyboard around, even beating out the iPhone. Microsoft ...

Apple on Tuesday was granted a U.S. patent for the graphical user interface used in iOS which changes the "hit region" size of a virtual keyboard's buttons based on predictive text data. In an elegant ...

APPLE may be adding a new swipe-to-type function for iPhone keyboards in the next big update. Rather than tapping on keys, you’d simply drag your finger around the keyboard to spell words. The way you ...