There's a Hidden One Handed Mode Keyboard in iOS [Images]
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Posted October 20, 2016 at 3:22pm by iClarified
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has discovered a hidden one-handed mode keyboard in iOS.
Troughton-Smith managed to hack the iOS simulator to enable the keyboard. It's activated by edge-swiping and features shortcuts for cut, copy, paste, and undo. Notably, the keyboard has been there since iOS 8 but never enabled by Apple.
Today's fun hack (been there since at least iOS 8); the iOS keyboard has an unused left/right one-handed mode. Activated by edge-swipe
Take a look at a few screenshots below.
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Press your finger at the left edge (screen changes and at the left edge displays another application). Then swipe to the right to with to this other application. This probably only works with on devices supporting Force Touch
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