IF you find yourself making mistakes while you’re texting you may want to try Apple’s “hidden” typing trick.
The hidden iPhone trackpad is a useful feature that many people overlook.
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It helps you to easily correct mistakes so you don’t have to delete chunks of text to fix errors.
How to access your hidden iPhone trackpad
This hidden keyboard trackpad trick lets you go back and forth between each character in a text.
This prevents you from having to furiously tap the display.
It’s useful if you don’t have nimble fingers and find it hard to click exactly the letter or word you need to edit.
Simply hold down the space bar when you’ve typed some text, and the iPhone keyboard will turn blank.
You should see the cursor on the screen grow larger for a second.
You can move your finger on the blank keyboard that’s now turned into a trackpad.
Notice how your finger’s movement controls the cursor and how it moves much more easily.
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If you own an iPhone 6S or later, you can also use 3D Touch – which is Apple’s nickname for pressing hard on the screen.
Do a 3D Touch hard press anywhere on the keyboard and you’ll unlock the same hidden trackpad.
The same trick will also work on an iPad.
Bear in mind this trick works for messages you haven’t yet sent in a chat.
You can also apply it to a sent iMessage if you’re quick enough to spot a mistake and use the edit feature.
You only have 15 minutes to make any changes to an iMessage before the option runs out.
The hidden trackpad also works well in the Notes app or any app in which you’re typing text.
