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type fathe, the suggestion says father. This trick usually saves you only a
letter or two, but that’s better than nothing.
Although you don’t see it, the sizes of the keys on the iPhone keyboard are actually
changing all the time. That is, the software enlarges the “landing area” of certain
keys, based on probability.
For example, suppose you type tim. Now, the iPhone knows that no word in the
language begins timw or timr—and so, invisibly, it enlarges the “landing area” of
the E key, which greatly diminishes your chances of making a typo on that last
letter. Cool.
• Without cursor keys, how are you supposed to correct an error that you
made a few sentences ago? Easy—use the Loupe.
Hold your fingertip down anywhere in the text until you see the magnified
circle appear. Without lifting your finger, drag anywhere in the text;
you’ll see that the insertion point moves along with it. Release when the
blinking line is where you want to delete or add text, just as though you’d
clicked there with a mouse.
In the Safari address bar, you can skip the part about waiting for the Loupe to
appear. Once you’ve clicked into the address, just start dragging to make it appear
at once.
• Don’t bother using the Shift key to capitalize a new sentence. The iPhone
does that capitalizing automatically. (To turn this feature on or off, see
page 311.)
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