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I really like the stock keyboard but I can’t figure out how to include numbers on the main keyboard screen. Would make typing passwords and notes and really everything so much easier. Anyone have a good way to do this?

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[–] tpfm@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When you swipe from the number switch to a number key it changes back to letters when you release your finger. It makes selecting numbers a bit faster.

[–] panachemidi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how have i been using ios for 6 years and never knew this

[–] bjeanes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

🤦‍♂️ me too...

[–] Artemis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Mind blown tysm

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh crazy never knew that

[–] Noxvento@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I use SwiftKey on my iPhone. Works great. Has numbers, multi language and flow. It's owned by Microsoft, you should disable Bing hub.

[–] Future203@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Trying it out now. So far seems to be about as good as im going to be able to get. I wish it would let me hide the predictive text row like the stock keyboard does but otherwise it seems very clean.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I concur. I've been been using it since 2017 and it's the best keyboard.

[–] TheDaveAbides@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same. It also has some nice extras like quick access to punctuation.

[–] supermurs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] revs 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only option is a third party keyboard.

[–] buran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some apps somehow do get the stock keyboard to show a number row (I don’t have any third party keyboards installed) but I’ve never figured out how to get the setting to stick.

[–] bmovement@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might be interested to know there’s several layouts, and developers get to choose which one appears: https://nijatmanafov.medium.com/10-keyboard-types-in-ios-6497beeb66b2

[–] Future203@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm that is interesting. None of the ones shown in that article had the number row though.

[–] buran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can get it to show up if I search for a flight on FlightAware.

[–] Future203@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Wow! That's exactly what I want. I wonder why that isn't an option by default.

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