Message shortcuts in ios5 are cool

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  1. Ethernaught, Oct 8, 2011

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    Discovered that with ios5 you can create shortcuts for use with messages. Under Settings -> General -> Keyboard.
     
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  2. thesiren, Oct 8, 2011

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    ...care to elaborate?
     
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  3. Ethernaught, Oct 8, 2011

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    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.
     
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  4. thesiren, Oct 8, 2011

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    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?
     
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  5. OttawaGuy, Oct 8, 2011

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  6. PhoneI, Oct 8, 2011

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    Has iOS5 for months and never noticed this. Pretty cool. Thanks
     
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  7. adztaylor, Oct 8, 2011

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    Wow I didn't know about this, thanks.
     
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  8. scootaru, Oct 8, 2011

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    except isn't that one built in?
     
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  9. rmlred, Oct 8, 2011

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  10. F123D, Oct 8, 2011

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    That's pretty cool. Can't wait until Oct 12th.
     
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  11. LIVEFRMNYC, Oct 8, 2011

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    Didn't know about this either. Thanks :D
     
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  12. E3BK, Oct 8, 2011

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    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.
     
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  13. Geckotek, Oct 8, 2011

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    Hahaha, throwback to Palm days. Wow, about time.
     
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  14. danpass, Oct 8, 2011

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    finally.

    no more copypasta from the Notes app into text messages. (I have a general response I sometimes text to people)
     
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  15. lorax3, Oct 8, 2011

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

    omw
    idk
    nvm
     
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  16. rockyroad55, Oct 8, 2011

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