Can I turn thousands-separator commas off in the iOS Calculator?

Commas (or dots, if that's your locale format) are helpful for human readability, but not always for machine readability. If I copy values from Calculator, the separator characters are copied too. In many circumstances when I'd like to copy and paste a calculated number (like using my banking app) the separator characters are misinterpreted, and mess up the value I'm trying to paste.


The option to either hide the commas altogether, or to omit the commas from the clipboard when copying values, would be greatly appreciated.

iPhone 5s, iOS 12

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 3:50 AM

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Mar 16, 2021 2:13 PM in response to LD150

I was pretty sure the setting didn't exist, but in this case it could have been handled in something a bit obscure, like internationalization settings, since i18n is what determines comma vs. dot for thousands separators.


At any rate, the option should exist to suppress separators in numbers, so this message is here to encourage adding the feature if it indeed does not exist.

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Can I turn thousands-separator commas off in the iOS Calculator?

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