IOS TEXT EXPANDER HOW TO

You have to open the TextExpander app on your iOS device to find the settings they’re talking about. It says “Under TextExpander’s Settings” as the first step, but where is that? It’s not in the Mac app and it’s not in Settings on iOS.

IOS TEXT EXPANDER HOW TO

The purpose of the article is to tell you how to flip a switch to allow TextExpander to share snippets with TextExpander-enhanced apps, one of which is Ulysses.īut even this article doesn’t really give you the step-by-step process. The initial setup on the TextExpander side is documented in a support article called TextExpander-Enhanced Apps for iOS (74 and counting…) Gear Only Visible with Groups Tab Selected No Gear Visible with Notes Tab Selected I find myself wasting a great deal of time trying to figure out how to get it to work, so I decided to write it up for myself and share it with everyone else. Oddly, this feature does not appear to be very well documented, either from the TextExpander side or from the Ulysses side, and you need to do things in both apps to enable this capability. It’s glorious, but only if you can figure out how to enable it. I’m not talking about the TextExpander keyboard for iOS, which works but is a bit clumsy, I’m talking about native support within the app with the normal onscreen or external keyboard, just like on macOS. There are lots of cross-platform options, but Ulysses wins because it supports TextExpander on the iPad. I have found that writing on my iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard is a great way for me to focus, and Ulysses is cross-platform between Mac and iPadOS. One of the apps I talked about was Ulysses for writing my draft blog posts. Last year I wrote an article explaining why I use five different apps to take notes.

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