The iOS and iPadOS Touchy Text Casebook
Although using mobile phones for texting was already quite popular when the iPhone first appeared, mobile phones of that era were far from text-handling powerhouses. Text entry, when it was available, mostly allowed you to create short text messages of a dozen or so words at a time, enter address information in contact lists, type in short (very short) details for calendar appointments, and generate other small snippets of alphanumeric text. The majority of mobile phones didn’t even offer a full text keyboard: you used their telephone keypads for text entry (tap the 2 key once for “A,” twice for “B,” and so on). Editing? Don’t bother; just backspace over your typos and retype: it’s not like you’re transcribing ...
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