Alternate keyboard for IiPone

mikestock wrote:
I have had, probably 8 or 9 different Samsung Galaxies over the years. For the first time ever I decided to get an iPhone 11 as my 16 family members from the next two generations to swear by. They have tried, for years, to get me to try the iPhone, telling me how much better they are. Of course, none of them would ever be caught dead using anything but the iPhone.

So far, it has been a disaster for a 77-year-old to make the change. The first problem for me is that punctuation, numbers, and letters are not on the same keyboard. For them, this is no issue but for a hunt-and-pecker with arthritic fingers, this is just an added aggravation. I did find one alternate keyboard that adds numbers but no punctuation.

My kids type with flying thumbs and I have tried to cultivate this method but there are sooo many errors.

I have watched the 96 minute Youtube video twice. Hopefully I'll adapt to some of the iPhone differences, but so far I can make calls, type by voice-to-text and read emails. The rest of the phone features are mostly a mystery to me. I'm kind of back to the flip phone era, as far as useful features. I let the kids talk me out of returning it when I could. Wish I had.

Hmm, funny, my Galaxy and all of my other Andriod phones with "soft keyboards" that I have had never had numbers or caps on the same "keyboard", always had to hit the Shift.. It always caps the first letter of each new sentence for you, all you have to do is hit a return and start a new sentence..

Pretty much standard issue with any "soft keyboard".

Perhaps try talking to your phone, I found that my Galaxy Andriod does pretty well at speech to text.

Otherwise you will have to find a new "soft keyboard" App that can be installed on you "I" product.

Most "texters" shorten/abbreviate words, don't use punctuation and don't bother with Caps which how they can type so fast on the soft keyboard.