iPhone tips and tricks: These HIDDEN features are awesome; try them now

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Have an iPhone? Been using it long? Even if you have, there are certain iPhone features that remain hidden from users, sometimes for years altogether. Among them are some on your iPhone's keyboard. There are a lot of secret tricks that will create an awesome experience for you, if you make the best use of them. For instance, there are some basic ones like, you can get more icons just by tapping 123 in the bottom left corner with the symbol button above ABC. But there are a few others that can unlock hidden features, like the hidden variants of a particular alphabet, which you can simply get by holding onto a letter for an extra moment. For example, if you do that to the letter ‘A’, you will get accents, tildes, and umlauts. All these can go a long way in enriching the messages that you send to your friends, family and colleagues. Here we have listed a lot more exciting keyboard tricks for your iPhone. To know these iPhone tips and tricks, read on:

Like alphabets, you have a lot of different variants for your symbols too. Just hold on longer on a hyphen which will give you a lot of different kinds of symbol variants. Similarly, holding on to a full stop will bring an ellipsis. You can try the same techniques with other symbols such as commas, quotation marks, and question marks to prompt new symbols. And don't forget to try the same trick with 0 which will unlock the degree symbol to use it with angles and temperatures.

iPhone users with iOS 13 and later have this 'swipe to text' feature. And if you are unaware of it, then this is the time to use it to do quick typing. It basically lets you swipe between letters instead of tapping them to turn you into a writing machine. To do so, make sure you are on Apple's default