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TIL: If you double tap the space bar on your phone, it makes a period.
- Thread starter Brandino
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It's rewarding you for properly doing a double space and not being some uncivilized monster that does that 1-space crap.
but... typing the two spaces replaces one of the spaces with a period, leaving you with the correct-when-using-a-computer one space after a sentence.
Never knew this before, but it doesn't work on my phone, so that makes sense. Maybe I have it turned off or something, I have all that shit generally turned off (no autocorrect, no auto-capitalization, etc.)
Take it easy on the old timer, no need to blow their minds so soon.
This is awesome except it only seems to move to the right. At least on Android...
The spacebar thing has been around for a few years now. Tbh I'm still a little salty we lost 3D Touch, which was a better solution. That provided the same feature through a more intuitive action back on the iPhone 6s.
Here, I'll contribute (for iOS):
• You can perform special actions with key combinations in the iOS notes app. e.g. Insert new lines within tables or lists by holding shift and pressing return.
• Long pressing many keys will provide new entry options. Long pressing the hyphen will surface en and em dashes, for example.
• Long pressing the globe icon will allow you to switch between different alphabets, or toggle a one-handed keyboard.
• It's possible to hold down the shift key and press a letter to capitalize, but toggling shift is easy enough that this more traditional method feels relatively cumbersome.
• Some apps, like the iOS notes app, allow you to long-press a selection and move it to a new position.
• You can enable a text selection through the spacebar long-press by tapping anywhere on the virtual touchpad while the finger that initiated the touchpad remains touching the display.
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My wife tried to convert me when it first came to Samsung phones. I just couldn't take to it.
It's incredibly easy to get the Elmo's World song stuck in your head
Even now knowing this, I'm still just going to use the period because of habit. I'm too used to normal typing.
I had no idea either because my phone doesn't do this. It's an old ASUS Max Pro running Android 9.
The most wild thing I learned about the space bar is that if you hold it down, while on your phone, you can use it to move the cursor left or right.
Did you know clicking the button that turns the phone's screen on/off twice opens up the camera. I discovered this when I accidentally took a picture of my dick while watching porn.
It has to be in the settings
edit: it is
Mm yeah I found it, def not a default for me though.
I use Gboard on Android and both work fine. It's possible I may have switched it on tho.