Keyboard

[cowelder]

Ok this morning I was typing like normal and typed 1/4 and it changed it to ¼. It has never done this. And now I also have ⅓ ½ ⅛ ™ ℗ © ® ℅ and probably others. I just updated to 7.1.2 so did it come from that? Because my mother wants it now and hers won't do it.

 

[lelisa13p]

That's pretty crazy and now I want them, too!

I tested in a Memo and nothing happened. Still looks like 1/4.

 

[cowelder]

It doesn't work on my iPad either and I keep looking in the options and setting but I'm lost. I'm loving these things but want to use them on my other devices.
⅓ ½

 

[lelisa13p]

I copied them from a text doc that I use & created a Keyboard > Shortcut: fr = ½ ¼ ¾

It would be nice if holding down particular keys would pop up those as secondary characters, as other keys do.

 

[Intell]

I recall my old 3Gs doing this to some degree. Do you have any Macs running 10.8 or higher signed into the same iCloud account as the iOS device?

 

[cowelder]

I honestly don't know what it's running but I have a mac book that's fully updated and it's on my iCloud with my phone. And I just changed some of my iCloud settings last week. So that could be it?

 

[Intell]

Those keyboard shortcuts are part of the default installation on Mac OS X 10.6 and newer. Starting with iOS 7 and Mac OS X 10.8, the two device's keyboard shortcuts are synchronized. Because of this, your iOS device now has the default Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts within it's autocorrect settings.

 

[cynics]

Those keyboard shortcuts are part of the default installation on Mac OS X 10.6 and newer. Starting with iOS 7 and Mac OS X 10.8, the two device's keyboard shortcuts are synchronized. Because of this, your iOS device now has the default Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts within it's autocorrect settings.

Is this something that is supposed to happen automatically or do I need to set it up? I'm using iOS 7.1.2 and OSX 10.9.4.

 

[Intell]

As long as both devices are signed into the same iCloud account, it should just happen normally. I'm not overly familiar with the keyboard shortcut synching.

 

[lelisa13p]

Yes! This is what happened when I created the KB shortcut on my iPhone. When I went to add it to my iPads, it was already there. I don't use iCloud for anything other than Notes and Find My iPhone and I was pleasantly surprised.

iPad Mini-R is using iOS 7.1.2, iPhone 5 (where I created the shortcut) is using 6.1.4 and iPad 4 is using 6.1.3.