@matigo Oh yeah, I think I heard of that. There is so much knowledge available in books and openly online, I'm not sure how much need there is for anything else.
@peemee I thought I’d try your text replacement idea but I noticed two things: A) it only works for a whole word with a preceding space, so you can’t use it to append a word ending, and B) it refuses to input the single straight speech mark* even though the shortcut is set up that way. It always reverts to ‘. All other alternatives characters seem to work, just not that one. It’s strange. I’m on iOS 12.4.
*Well, it may be an apostrophe rather than a speech mark.
@matigo I’m not keen on emoji; they’re a bit childish…but it seems to be a bandwagon. So much so that I feel sheepish typing an old-school smiley; like I must be weird to do what no one else is doing. Also, I quite like the challenge of A)crafting text with sufficient skill that neither emoji nor smiley is needed, and sometimes of B)creating a bit of intentional ambiguity by only using text.
Sometimes subtlety is nice.
@jws Damn, that’s another trick I didn’t know about…or had forgot about. Slightly spoiled for me though by the fact that it doesn’t work for the alternative characters that you’re offered when you press and hold some keys.
@matigo At the current rate of improvement, I think auto-correct will be good by iOS 21.
@matigo As long as it’s not one of those types with big gaps between letters, meaning you don’t get many words to a line.
@matigo If it’s easy to implement (and change back), perhaps do it for a while as an experiment.
@matigo 'd never seems to be a problem. Auto-correct doesn’t work well for me with 's …I wonder why.