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How to type an em dash (—) on the iPhone?

I’be been on Google for days to find out how to type an “em dash” on the iPhone, but i could not find a workaround for that — do you know one?

iMac 20" 1.8Ghz G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5), iPhone 3G 16GB v2.1

Posted on Sep 26, 2008 7:57 AM

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Posted on Sep 26, 2008 8:52 AM

There is no em dash (or en dash, for that matter) on iPhone. With other keys, a tap-and-hold offers additional choices (e.g. ? gives ¿ as an option), it's something that Apple could implement.

You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.
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Sep 26, 2008 8:52 AM in response to ManuelMartensen

There is no em dash (or en dash, for that matter) on iPhone. With other keys, a tap-and-hold offers additional choices (e.g. ? gives ¿ as an option), it's something that Apple could implement.

You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.
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Sep 26, 2008 8:51 AM in response to ManuelMartensen

Found it for you...as always, the Japaneese keyboard comes to the rescue.

If you add the Japaneese QWERTY keyboard to your list of keyboards, you can find it by hitting the ABC button, then the 123 button, then press and HOLD the bottom right .,-/ button. Then slide up to select the dash. After selecting you will be given choices for variants and one being the em dash.

And in case you didn't know, at the same ABC, 123 location, pressing and holding the number 1 and sliding to the left to pick the star...there are a lot of additional symbols such as heart, start, sun, raincloud, etc.

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How to type an em dash (—) on the iPhone?

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