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22nd Oct 2016

There’s a secret one-handed iPhone keyboard we never knew about

It's new to us!

JOE

Everyone and their mother has an iPhone these days.

With so many updates for the iPhone available, it’s hard to know how to even use a phone these days but luckily there are plenty of hacks, fixes and updates to be found if you look hard enough.

One developer has found another hack to using the iPhone which unlocks a single-handed keyboard, a service many of us coffee-drinkers or work lunch-eaters could do with when we’re multi-tasking our arses through another day.

According to METRO, developer Steve Troughton-Smith has found code for a a keyboard which requires only one hand.

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/788868170270531584

From tweets, Steve has showed that with one swipe across the keyboard, the keys are closer together and can be tailored for right-handed people or lefties.

Apparently, this feature has been present in the iOS code since ‘iOS 8’ but for whatever apparent reason, Apple has not officially launched the feature.

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/788869300283146240

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