Press Space Twice to End a Sentence on Your Phone. Learn This!

David Pogue
·Tech Critic
Updated

On a smartphone, you should complete each sentence by tapping the space bar twice.

This shortcut accomplishes three things: It creates a period, adds a space, and automatically capitalizes the next word you type. It saves you the trouble of finding the period (which, on the iPhone, is on a different keyboard layout), hitting the space key, and then manually capitalizing the next letter. 

(This technique works on every kind of smartphone: iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. And on every BlackBerry ever made.)

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