Keyboard 3 - Customise auto-correct text replacement
iOS's QuickType system-wide keyboard is clever at guessing what you're trying to write, and in many situations will auto-correct your clumsily typed screed into something far more accurate. It gets better still, however, when you start customising it so that it knows your own personal favourite shortcuts and abbreviations and the full phrases you'd like it to expand those abbreviations into.
You might decide that "omg" should be turned into "Oh my God", for example. "omw" should become "On my way". And so on.
It's easy to set up personalised shortcuts. Go to Settings > General, scroll down and tap Keyboard, then select Text Replacement. You'll see what text replacements you currently have set up. To add a new one, tap the plus sign. Enter the desired full phrase ("MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar" might be a good one for a tech journalist), the shortened version that you want to expand into the longer phrase ("MBP", say), and tap Save.
You might decide that "omg" should be turned into "Oh my God", for example. "omw" should become "On my way". And so on.
It's easy to set up personalised shortcuts. Go to Settings > General, scroll down and tap Keyboard, then select Text Replacement. You'll see what text replacements you currently have set up. To add a new one, tap the plus sign. Enter the desired full phrase ("MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar" might be a good one for a tech journalist), the shortened version that you want to expand into the longer phrase ("MBP", say), and tap Save.
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