There’s a Hidden Trackpad on Your iPhone. Here’s How You Can Unlock It
Your iPhone and iPad are packed with a lot nice hidden functionsincluding on iOS 16, which offers the possibility Connect your Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers and You can easily view and share all your saved WiFi passwords in your settings.
However, iOS has always had interesting hidden features, and even if you’re using an older software version like iOS 15, there’s always something new to discover – like the secret trackpad in your iPhone keyboard.
When editing text, you probably keep your finger on the screen and move the cursor around all the letters, numbers, and punctuation marks to get where you want. A magnifying glass bubble offers some help by magnifying the text under your finger, but there’s another way to move your cursor.
How to find your iPhone’s hidden trackpad.
When the hidden trackpad is enabled, this is what your keyboard looks like.
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How to bring up the secret trackpad on an iPhone or iPad
How to discover the hidden trackpad on an iOS device.
1. Wherever you wrote a block of text, bring up your keyboard and Press and hold your finger on the spacebar until the keyboard is blank. You should feel some haptic feedback and see the cursor enlarge for a second, meaning you can now use the keyboard as a trackpad.
2. With your finger held down, slide your finger across the entire keyboard to move your cursor, just like you would on your Mac’s trackpad.
3. To place the cursor, simply lift your finger off the screen. You can then use any of the other keys, such as B. Use the Delete key to make changes in the text. If you want to move the cursor again, press your finger on the spacebar to bring up the hidden trackpad.
Check out the video below to see the hidden feature in action.
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