To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

Anu is a Features author at Android Police. You'll find her writing in-depth pieces about automation tools, productivity apps, and explainers. Before joining AP, she used to write for prominent tech ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...

Keyboard shortcuts for text formatting involve holding down two or three keys at a time to alter the appearance of text. Common commands like bolding, underlining, or italicizing text are similar on ...

If you're sick of typing the same text over and over, the iPhone's text replacement feature is your way out. It’s simple, powerful, and it quietly changed how I communicate every single day. Text ...

What are these hidden Android shortcuts? Before you run off selecting everything on your device, let me first define what I’m specifically referring to. The shortcuts in question appear when a simple ...

As time races by at a pace seemingly faster than light, many of us are always on the hunt for ways to accomplish our tasks in the shortest amount of time possible. One of the most underrated iPhone ...

Google is now widely rolling out the ability to “Create text notes by default,” as well as an Audio shortcut, in Keep for Android. Once enabled, tapping the FAB (floating action button) will ...