Apple users have discovered a 'mind-blowing' trick they can use for the keyboards on their iPad to type in numbers without having to fiddle with all that back and forth nonsense.
One would hope it's not literally causing their minds to explode as that sounds devilishly painful and is also likely to be fatal.
Anyhow, you know how it goes, your keyboard on an Apple device can be a bit cramped, so you sometimes have to switch between the alphabet and the numbers or symbols that you need.
This can get a bit annoying when you have to jump back and forth, and one of the more popular requests for the keyboard on your Apple device is to stick a row of numbers at the top.
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However, if you're on an iPad and have a keyboard where the letters and numbers are both on the keys then you can access both easily without switching.
A bloke who'd just been told about this said it blew his mind to learn it, saying that a 'kid who's living in 3022' told him how to do it.
The guy showed his iPad keyboard and said that all you had to do was have the keyboard showing you letters with the numbers faintly above and then press and pull down the key with the number you wanted to type.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
It might only save you a scant few seconds but what is a smartphone or tablet if not something to be used as quickly as possible, you certainly don't want to be dawdling when you type.
People learning the trick thought it was a 'great time saver' and was a 'brilliant' thing to know to slightly boost the quality of life of using an Apple device.
As for your phone, instead of tap-tapping to switch to the numbers and then typing them in you can hold down on the '123' button and then swipe to the number you want, upon release it'll type it and you don't need to switch the keyboard back.
Again, this is saving you only seconds but it can work wonders to alleviate frustration.
It's likely that there's lots of cool stuff you can do with your gadgets which you don't even know about, either because there's nothing about it in the instruction manual or because you put that manual in a drawer several years ago and it has since vanished off the face of the Earth.
Take screenshots, for example. How many of you will get a quick snap of something to post in the group chat and make use of the 'copy and delete' feature?
Instead, your camera roll is likely to be clogged up with loads of screenshots you no longer need, while other features like typing questions to Siri or being able to switch off the sound when an alarm goes off so your phone isn't screaming at you until you attend to it are also underused.
Topics: Apple, Technology
Joe Harker