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| Apple releases keyboard for single-hand usage on iOS 8 |
With the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus one-handed typing on the iPhones is not easy. These new phones are larger than previous iPhones and are similar to many modern Android phones. To make one-handed typing easier, Apple has released a dedicated app called the one handed keyboard on the App Store.
This app works as a third party keyboard like SwiftKey. It offers a keyboard which is the same size as the keyboard on the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5.
Such a feature is already baked into competing Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy Note 3.
While the one-handed keyboard is nice addition, the keyboard does not add the auto-correct functionality that is found in the stock iOS8 keyboard.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have significantly larger screens than previous iPhones. While two-handed typing is easier, people who prefer single-handed typing struggle as the phones (particularly the iPhone 6 Plus) become unwieldy in the hand.
For the longest time Apple has propagated, single-hand usage of its phones. With the larger screens of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple loses the lure of single-hand usage, but it mitigates matters by adding features like 'Reachability' and now, the new 'one handed keyboard'.
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