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Tired of QWERTY? starting from iOS16– launched last month – Apple’s iPhone now supports 86-year-old Dvorak’s keyboard layout. Previously, Dvorak enthusiasts had to install a third-party app to use the layout.
Dvorak uses a different key layout than the format. Standard QWERTY layout With the aim of improving typing speed and ergonomic comfort. August Dvorak and William Dealey invented the design in 1936 after studying the shortcomings of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, which was already 60 at the time.
Apple and Dvorak have an interesting history. to bargain It was included for the first time Dvorak native support for his computers in the American model of Apple IIcIt was released in 1984. It included a special “keyboard” button that logically switched the layout between QWERTY and Dvorak, but the physical keys had to be rearranged to match if a label reference was needed.
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Interestingly, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (“Woz”) learned about Dvorak around 1993 and never looked back (it wasn’t co-founded with Dvorak on the Apple IIc, he says). In an email to Ars Technica, Woz recounted how he first learned about Dvorak. He wrote: “I was traveling to Tokyo and I was running Mavis Bacon who teaches writing in Dvorak mode”. “I spent 5 hours learning this and never looked at a QWERTY keyboard again. That’s all it took. My son actually made the switch and learned Dvorak in no time and woke up quickly typing QWERTY in about a week.
Technical Ares
To use Dvorak on your iPhone, first make sure you update to iOS 16 or later. Then, open the Settings app and go to General> Keyboard> Keyboards, then tap your language and select “Dvorak” from the list. The next time you open the keyboard, you’ll see the different layout, with a welcome line that says “AOEUIDHTNS” – just the way August Dvorak liked it.
It’s worth noting that Dvorak’s purported speed improvements come from using 10 fingers to type, so if you’re just learning Dvorak, you may not see any speed improvement via QWERTY when typing with two fingers, such as your thumb. Still, longtime Dvorak users are likely to be satisfied.
“What I loved most about Dvorak at the time was the feeling of using less energy with his fingers,” said Woese. “Since the arrival of iPhones, I have had to resort to QWERTY but it is no longer in my thoughts. I’ve been a pretty fast QWERTY writer all my life, but now it’s over. I have to look at the letters on my iPhone. “
Ars Wozniak reported native Dvorak support in iOS 16 and replied: “Oh my God! Thank you very much!”
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