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Backtick symbol still missing in iOS

It's 2018 and I'm wondering why I still can't obtain the backtick symbol (`) from the symbol list in my iPhone's virtual keyboard while running iOS 11.3. Clearly I can get to it from the address line of a new Mail email, but if I try to copy the symbol and add it to a "Note" to form a complex password for pasting into another app, I can't even do that as it appears with (insert favorite icon here) as a hideous 22-byte character attachment. Apple clearly washed its hands of this symbol with the blood of a slaughtered lion. The problem here is simply one-fold: With the rise of complex password managers generating evermore complex passwords (Keepass), archaic symbols such as the backslash have gained more and more popularity from the symbolic deathly hallows it once inhabited, leading me to my final predicament. I'm unable to type a complex password using a trivial backtick because there's no way to retrieve that symbol from the virtual keyboard.

iPhone 5s, iOS 11.3

Posted on Mar 29, 2018 12:19 PM

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Posted on Mar 29, 2018 7:01 PM

You're right. I don't use it very often. If you hold the apostrophe, you get the pop up with four options and the backtick is on the left. I'll post another screenshot with some text with the backtick inserted.


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Backtick symbol still missing in iOS

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