Getting started with Typinator Mobile

To use abbreviations on your mobile devices, you need to install Typinator and enable the Typinator keyboard. This allows the Typinator keyboard to insert your text expansions.

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Install Typinator Mobile and enable the Typinator keyboard

  1. Install Typinator Mobile. 
  2. Open the Typinator app on your iPhone.
  3. If it doesn’t open automatically, tap the keyboard icon to start the keyboard setup.
  4. Click "Open Keyboard Settings".
  5. Open Keyboards. (If the Keyboards item is not listed, please close the settings and press the "Open Keyboard Settings" again.)
  6. Enable Typinator.
  7. Enable Allow Full Access.
Three iPhone settings screens showing how to enable the Typinator keyboard and grant full access. The first screen displays the Typinator app settings with “Mobile Data” enabled and a “Keyboards” option. The second screen shows the iOS keyboard settings with “Typinator” and “Allow Full Access” toggles turned off. The third screen shows both toggles enabled and a confirmation dialog asking the user to allow full access for the Typinator keyboard.

Use Typinator Mobile

After enabling the Typinator keyboard, you can use Typinator Mobile in any app on your device.

To activate Typinator keyboard, switch keyboards using the globe icon (long-press it to select Typinator).

Screenshot of an iPhone email composition screen with the keyboard language menu open. The menu displays available keyboards including “English & Deutsch,” “Typinator,” and “Emoji,” with “Typinator – English” highlighted as the selected keyboard.

 

Add a keyboard layout to the Typinator keyboard

  1. Open Typinator.

  2. Tap the Settings icon in the top-right corner.

  3. Go to Keyboards → Languages.

  4. Select the language you want to make available for the Typinator keyboard.

  5. Click Edit to change the order or remove Languages.

Screenshot of a smartphone keyboard with language selection feature: on the left, the keyboard is shown with the highlighted language abbreviation “EN”; on the right, a selection menu displays the available languages Spanish, German, and English.

Change the keyboard layout

  1. Open the Typinator keyboard in any app
  2. Look for “EN” on the space bar
  3. Press and hold “EN” to open the menu and choose a different keyboard layout
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