How to type with one hand (also on a large iPhone)
One-handed typing on your iPhone is easier than you think. There is a very handy trick for this. We’ll show you how it works.
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One-handed typing on your iPhone
In recent years, iPhones have become increasingly larger on average. And given that no more iPhone 14 mini has appeared, that will not change for the time being.
Maybe you just have small hands, or you use an iPhone 14 Pro Max or iPhone 14 Plus. Anyway, for many people, typing with one hand on an iPhone is just a bit too much to ask. If you succeed at all, it often means that you hold your iPhone just a little less firmly. A risk you obviously don’t want to take.
In practice, this means that you usually see the majority of iPhone users typing with two hands. Understandable, but it can also be done differently.
Increase keyboard accessibility
You may already know that you can increase the reachability of the top of the iPhone screen by sliding it down. You can easily enable this option via ‘Settings>Accessibility>Touch>Accessibility’. Handy, but you don’t get much along with it when it comes to typing with one hand on your iPhone.
The trick you can use for this is somewhat similar. Only you don’t move the screen vertically, but you move the keyboard horizontally so that you can reach it more easily with your thumb. This works as follows:
- Open the keyboard in any app;
- Long press the globe or emoji button at the bottom left;
- At the bottom of the menu, choose which side you want to use the keyboard on.
If you type left with one hand on your iPhone, it is now easier to reach the backspace with your left thumb, for example. Conversely, switching to numbers with your right thumb becomes easier if you type with your right hand.
If you want to go back to the standard keyboard, all you have to do is tap the arrow in the empty area. Left or right, that depends on whether you use the left or right option.
