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I have an M1 Mini running 14.1.1 and recently my keyboard layout changed. I first noticed when I discovered my apostrophe was no longer under my right pinky, but instead in Shift-7. Poking around I ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

Do you have very big fingers? Many users have problems typing on their mobile phones because they have big fingers, which in turn causes inaccurate typing because the letters on the onscreen keyboard ...

When you type a document in a language such as French, Belgian or Lithuanian, you may find yourself limited by the standard QWERTY keyboard, which lacks many of the special characters found in these ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

From predictive text to custom shortcuts and new layouts, your iPad keyboard can do a lot more than you think This article explains how to change the default keyboard on iPad devices running iOS 11 ...

I’ve always been a full-keyboard kind of guy. Not to the point of using macros, but I’ve been religious about the full 104-key layout with a numpad, in hindsight, out of a purist’s mentality. But I’ve ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

One of the under-reported problems is where Windows 11/10 keeps adding keyboard layouts without permission. As you add new languages, it starts appearing in the language bar and cannot be removed from ...

If you find typing on your tablet device or smartphone a little tricky with your thumbs, a new solution called the KALQ Keyboard might be just the thing for you to speed up your typing. The KALQ ...