{"id":3534,"date":"2018-03-06T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2018-03-06T22:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:19:50","slug":"how-to-enable-a-one-handed-keyboard-on-your-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/how-to-enable-a-one-handed-keyboard-on-your-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable A One Handed Keyboard On Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the increasing sizes of iPhones, one handed texting seems to be a more difficult than ever.\u00a0 Not so fast says iOS11!\u00a0 With iOS11 the iPhone has a feature that can adjust your phones keyboard to allow for one handed typing.\u00a0 Here is how to enable a one handed keyboard on your iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"method_separation\"><span>First Method<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 1<\/span><\/div>\n<p>From the home screen open the\u00a0<strong>Settings App<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/homescreen.jpg\" alt=\"homescreen\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 2<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Select the\u00a0<strong>General\u00a0<\/strong>tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1672 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/settings-menu.jpg\" alt=\"settings menu general tab\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div id=\"ads\" style=\"width: 100%;margin:1rem 0\">\r\n\t<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2784104419425844\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1008241401\"><\/ins>\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 3<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Select the\u00a0<strong>Keyboard\u00a0<\/strong>tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3535 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/General-Menu-Keyboard-tab.jpg\" alt=\"Keyboard tab\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 4<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Select the <strong>One Handed Keyboard<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Keyboard-Menu-One-Handed-Keyboard-tab-1.jpg\" alt=\"One Handed keyboard tab\" width=\"226\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 5<\/span><\/div>\n<p>From this menu select either the\u00a0<strong>Left tab<\/strong> or the\u00a0<strong>Right tab<\/strong> depending on preference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/One-Handed-Keyboard-menu-left-tab.jpg\" alt=\"One Handed Keyboard menu right tab\" width=\"226\" height=\"196\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/One-Handed-Keyboard-menu-right-tab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The left tab will shift to the keyboard to the left of the screen for left handed users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Left-One-Handed-Keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"left handed keyboard\" width=\"224\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The right tab will shift the keyboard to the right of the screen for right handed users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Right-One-Handed-Keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"Right one handed keyboard\" width=\"226\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"method_separation\"><span>Second Method<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 1<\/span><\/div>\n<p>While using the keyboard, press and hold the\u00a0<strong>Globe\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0<strong>Emoji<\/strong> icon (the icon displayed will depend on which keyboards are activated)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/globe-icon-keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"globe icon keyboard\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/emoji-icon-keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"emoji icon keyboard\" width=\"233\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"number_icon\"><span>Step 2<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Select either the\u00a0<strong>Left keyboard icon<\/strong> or the\u00a0<strong>Right keyboard icon<\/strong>\u00a0depending on preference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/keyboard-one-handed-shortcut-left.jpg\" alt=\"keyboard one handed shortcut left\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/keyboard-one-handed-shortcut-right.jpg\" alt=\"keyboard one handed shortcut right\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The left tab will shift to the keyboard to the left of the screen for left handed users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Left-One-Handed-Keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"left handed keyboard\" width=\"224\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The right tab will shift the keyboard to the right of the screen for right handed users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Right-One-Handed-Keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"Right one handed keyboard\" width=\"226\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! Now you know how to enable a one handed keyboard on iPhones running iOS 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Found this useful? Share to help others and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swopsmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the increasing sizes of iPhones, one handed texting seems to be a more difficult than ever.\u00a0 Not so fast says iOS11!\u00a0 With iOS11 the iPhone has a feature that can adjust your phones keyboard to allow for one handed typing.\u00a0 Here is how to enable a one handed keyboard on your iPhone. &nbsp; From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,520,521],"tags":[1889,517,1890,1891,1892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swopsmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}