{"id":28293,"date":"2016-10-24T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=28293"},"modified":"2017-11-23T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T09:58:02","slug":"ios-one-handed-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/ios-one-handed-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS has a hidden one-handed keyboard in Xcode"},"content":{"rendered":"

With smartphone screen sizes increasing, developers have to make sure they can find ways to prepare the UI for one-hand usage. Today, it is discovered that Apple has already been working on a one-handed keyboard that can be (eventually) activated via edge-swipe. The feature has yet to be completed though.<\/p>\n

Developer Steve Troughton-Smith<\/strong> who discovered the existence of this keyboard inside Apple\u2019s iOS simulator, says that this the code for this feature has existed in the iOS Xcode since iOS 8. However, Apple yet to announce the implementation of the feature.<\/p>\n

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The one-handed keyboard can be activated with swipes from the edge of the keyboard<\/strong>. This would cause iOS to pull all the keys to one side or the other<\/strong>. You can see this in the gif below.<\/p>\n

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Video or it didn't happen: (very hard to engage in the Simulator with a mouse cursor) pic.twitter.com\/vw2wpCgiLJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) October 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n