Message shortcuts in ios5 are cool

[Ethernaught]

Discovered that with ios5 you can create shortcuts for use with messages. Under Settings -> General -> Keyboard.

 

[thesiren]

...care to elaborate?

 

[Ethernaught]

Have a phrase you text a lot such as "on my way" you can enter a shortcut such as "omw" and it will autofill the phrase.

 

[thesiren]

sweet! I can't think of any other shortcuts though. I'm so used to typing out everything. What other phrases would people need shortcuts for?

 

[OttawaGuy]

SDTGIC

Stop digging, the guard is coming.

 

[PhoneI]

Has iOS5 for months and never noticed this. Pretty cool. Thanks

 

[adztaylor]

Wow I didn't know about this, thanks.

 

[scootaru]

Have a phrase you text a lot such as "on my way" you can enter a shortcut such as "omw" and it will autofill the phrase.

except isn't that one built in?

 

[rmlred]

FBGM: ******* B****es, Get Money


EDIT: Disregard females, Acquire currency.

 

[F123D]

That's pretty cool. Can't wait until Oct 12th.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Didn't know about this either. Thanks 😀

 

[0970373]

Have a phrase you text a lot such as "on my way" you can enter a shortcut such as "omw" and it will autofill the phrase.

Sweet. My old Blackberry had a custom dictionary where you could do this and it made typing a lot faster. Of course...i was ob BBM 24/7 back then. lol.

 

[Geckotek]

Hahaha, throwback to Palm days. Wow, about time.

 

[danpass]

finally.

no more copypasta from the Notes app into text messages. (I have a general response I sometimes text to people)

 

[lorax3]

Yeah I saw this the other day. No more lazy shortcuts and I will hate people even more who use them.

omw
idk
nvm

 

[rockyroad55]

FBGM: ******* B****es, Get Money


EDIT: Disregard females, Acquire currency.

It could be "fornicate" too. Thanks to Mr. Chi-City.