Text Shortcuts You Should Be Using on iPhone and Mac

Apple's autocorrect connected iPhone and iPad ever aims to assistance erstwhile you're typing a message, but it's by nary means perfect, and immoderate of the replacements it continually spews retired tin beryllium frustrating. Fortunately, Apple's bundle includes a diagnostic called Text Replacement that allows you to specify what connection oregon operation replaces the circumstantial substance you benignant in.


Even if you haven't acceptable up Text Replacement, you tin effort it retired with Apple's pre-set example: In immoderate app that accepts substance input, benignant "Omw" followed by a space, and it volition alteration to "On my way!" automatically.

The pursuing steps usher you done the process of mounting up your ain useful shortcut phrases with substance replacements connected some iOS devices and Mac.

How to Set Up Text Replacement connected iPhone

1. Launch the Settings app connected your iPhone oregon iPad.


2. Tap General ➝ Keyboard.


3. Tap Text Replacement.
   
   
4. Tap the positive (+) fastener successful the top-right country of the screen.


5. On the adjacent screen, capable successful the "Phrase" tract with the substance you privation to look each clip you benignant your shortcut.


6. In the "Shortcut" field, input the substance of your prime that you privation to beryllium replaced by the operation above.


7. Tap Save successful the top-right country to finish.
   
   

How to Set Up Text Replacement connected Mac

The pursuing steps enactment connected Macs moving macOS Ventura and later.

1. On your Mac, click the  logo successful the top-left country of the paper barroom astatine the apical of the surface and prime System Settings....


2. Scroll down and prime Keyboard successful the sidebar.


3. Under "Text Input," click Text Replacements....
   
   
4. Click the + fastener to adhd a substance replacement.
   
   
5. In the "Replace" column, participate the substance that you privation replaced with thing else.


6. In the "With" column, benignant the replacement substance that you privation it to alteration to.
   
   

If you're utilizing the aforesaid Apple relationship crossed each of your Apple devices, immoderate Text Replacements that you adhd connected your Mac volition beryllium automatically synced to your iPhone and/or iPad, and vice versa.
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