Practical iOS 11: how to use the “side” keyboard, for easy one-handed use

iOS 11 post release update
iOS 11 available since
a few weeks now, many new features have already been implemented
before, in particularin this
article listing more than a hundred. Among these, there is one
which is of interest to those who have aLarge screen iPhone, or
just people with small hands.

This is the newside keyboard. This makes it possible to adapt
the one-handed thumb writing keyboard, to the left or right of the screen.
A practical function to more easily reach certain letters
the other end of the screen.

This is how it is used. When the keyboard is displayed (in messages,
notes for example)

• You must click on the classic icon allowing you to change keyboard

• Three small icons are displayed there symbolizing the position of the keyboard at
  the screen

• Choose the one you want, the right one for a right-handed person, the
  left for a left-hander, logically

• The keyboard sticks to the chosen side, to make it easier
  one-handed writing with the thumb. To return to the centered keyboard, simply
  to click on the small arrow on the left or right depending on the side chosen

With iPhone Plus and the classic keyboard, it is true that this requires
sometimes to do the splits of the thumb to reach the symbols on the side
opposite the hand. This side keyboard addition can make life easier for
many users with small hands and large iPhones.

Note that the side keyboard is not available in landscape mode for
iPhone Plus, logical, while iOS 11 integrates this functionality everywhere
it is possible to write text, regardless of the app.

Finally, for those who are not old on the platform, still in
the area of ​​easy one-handed access, you should know that since iOS 10, it
there is a tip on iPhone Plus to facilitate manipulations
with one finger, allowing easy access to the top of the screen. Two presses on
the Home button allows you to domove the screen down
basto find the upper half in the lower half of the iPhone.
Two more presses of the Home button return to the state
initial.It's "Reachability" in English.

Who uses the side keyboard now?

Also read, therecent information regarding
iOS 11, dont :

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• What
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• iOS 11: the
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• 
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• 
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• The
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• 
  Live Blog from the Apple WWDC 2017 conference: iOS 11, new Mac, iPad,
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Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.