5 Ways to Tailor the Clicks Keyboard for iPhone to Your Preferences

What you'll learn in this article:

• Personalizing key settings like return, Caps Lock and Alt Lock
• Configuring your keyboard backlight brightness and timeout
• Creating text replacements to quickly send common phrases and emoji

Everyone types a little differently. That's why your Clicks Keyboard gives you ways to tailor your typing experience to your personal preferences.

Here are a few simple ways to customize your Clicks Keyboard and iOS settings to match how you like to type.

Before we begin: Download the Clicks Keyboard App on the App Store

1. Return Key

When it comes to the return key, people expect it to behave in different ways. While some people expect to to act as a send key (pressing 'return' in messages 'sends' the message) others expect return to drop to the next line.

The Clicks App allows you to choose how the return key behaves on your Clicks Keyboard

1.1 Open the Clicks App.

1.2 Clicks on the 'keyboard settings' tab at the bottom of the screen.

1.3 Select your return key behavior

• Enable 'soft return' to add a carriage return (move to the next line)

  • When enabled, holding 'shift' and pressing return will send a message in many apps

• Disable 'soft return' to send a message

  • When disabled, holding 'shift' and pressing return will move to the next line in many apps

2. Caps Lock

People type upper case letters in different ways on their smartphones. Some people press and hold 'shift' while they type a letter to capitalize while others tap shift (without holding). The Clicks app caters to both style of typing.

2.1 Open the Clicks App.

2.2 Clicks on the 'keyboard settings' tab at the bottom of the screen.

2.3 Select your Caps Lock preference

• Enable Caps Lock

  • Press shift one. The next letter will be capitalized.

  • Press shift twice in a row. Caps lock will be enabled and all subsequent letters will be UPPER CASE. Press shift again to return to lower case.

• Disable Caps Lock

  • When disabled, shift must be held for letters to be capitalized.
  • Double clicking shift will not enable Caps Lock

3. Alt Lock

A big benefit to physical keyboards is the ease of typing common alternate characters like numbers, punctuation and symbols. Alt Lock settings give you more control over how you input the alternate characters printed in the upper right corner of each key.

3.1 Open the Clicks App.

3.2 Clicks on the 'keyboard settings' tab at the bottom of the screen.

3.3 Select your Alt key behavior

• Enable Alt Lock

  • Press '123' key once. The key pressed will display the alternate character printed on the key.
  • Press '123' twice in a row. Alt Lock will be enabled and all subsequent keys pressed will display the alternate character printed on the key. This is useful when typing phone numbers, entering backing details, or passwords.

• Disable Alt Lock

  • When disabled, '123' must be held for letters to be capitalized.
  • Double clicking '123' will not enable Alt Lock

4. Backlight Settings

Your Clicks Keyboard is equipped with a keyboard backlight that makes it easy to type at night and in low-light conditions. The Clicks App gives you control over your keyboard brightness and time out period.

4.1 Open the Clicks App.

4.2 Clicks on the 'keyboard backlight' tab at the bottom of the app

4.3 Enable the backlight

• When enabled, the keyboard backlight will illuminate when a key is pressed and remain lit for the amount of time set in the 'dim timeout' setting (4.5) before fading out

4.4 Customize the backlight brightness

• Use the slider to select how bright you want the backlight to be when it is activated

4.5 Set your keyboard dim timeout period

• Use the slider to choose how many seconds the keyboard will remain illuminated when a key is pressed

5. Text Replacement

iOS makes it easy to configure text replacements which replace a combination of characters with a predetermined word, phrase or text string. Think typing 'Omw! and having it expand to 'On my way!'.

Text replacement is a handy way to insert a canned response to a message, or even add an emoji without calling up the emoji keyboard.

5.1 Navigate to the Text Replacement menu

• Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement

5.2 Tap the '+' in the top right corner to crease a new text replacement

5.3 Add the phrase that you want to be inserted as a replacement

• This could be a phrase like 'On my way!' or even an emoji like 😊

5.4 Add the shortcut you want to use to trigger the replacement

• This is the shorthand of letters you want to replace
• Building on the example phases in 5.3, this would be Omw! or :)

5.5 Tap 'save' in the top right hand corner

Stay tuned for new features!

The Clicks Team is dedicated to improving the Clicks Keyboard experience. Be sure watch for updates to the Clicks App that enable even more performance and personalization features.