To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

Are you ready to start dictating your documents and text using just your voice? Instead of offering separated dictation or speech-to-text capabilities, Windows 10 conveniently groups its voice ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Even a few short years ago, the idea of getting text messages on your computer or tablet might have seemed a bit odd. Texts were for phones, and ...

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The iPhone has a great accessibility feature that’s been adopted by many popular apps—Dynamic Type, which lets you increase or decrease the text size for the OS and all supported apps, is a prime ...

OS X has included the ability to utilize text shortcuts - also known as text substitutions or text replacement - for a while. This feature allows small snippets of text to expand into larger strings ...

On iPhone and iPad, Apple allows you to set a custom alert tone for text messages received from a specific person in your contacts. Setting a special message alert tone for someone in your Contacts ...

When it works, a text shortcut tool can feel like magic. Create a few shortcuts for your most frequently typed phrases or sentences, and you can enter them instantly with just a few keystrokes. With a ...

It’s incredibly tempting to reach out and respond to a text you get while you’re driving, but maybe less so when you realize that distracted driving is causing thousands of deaths and hundreds of ...

The discovery of the text message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to Tucker Carlson’s firing. By Jeremy W. Peters Michael S. Schmidt and Jim Rutenberg A text message sent by ...