Then launch Settings, General, Keyboard, Keyboards, Add New Keyboard…, and select UniChar from the options. To install a Unicode keyboard on your iPhone or iPad, launch the App Store and download the free UniChar app. The alternative (which is far more laborious in the long-term) would be to copy and paste individual characters from the Web as and when you need them. Unicode keyboards make it easy to add characters into a text field. Unicode consists of a huge range of text symbols which you can easily add to documents on your iPhone or iPad – so long as you have a keyboard installed. To broaden the range of symbols available to type in iOS and iPadOS, you need to go one step further and install a Unicode keyboard.

If you’re using the new Magic Keyboard or one of Apple’s Smart Keyboards with your iPad, you’ll need to deploy traditional key combinations (using the option button) to add special characters into your document.īut what about the most important symbol of them all – can you type the Apple symbol () using the long-press method? Sadly, no. It’s worth noting, though, that this trick only works with Apple’s software keyboard.