{"id":41,"date":"2017-10-18T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempdetheux.food.blog\/2017\/10\/18\/mac-ios-text-replacements-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:02:05","slug":"mac-ios-text-replacements-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/mac-ios-text-replacements-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac &#038; iOS text replacements everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>I have a ton of text replacements on my Mac and iPhone. It\u2019s super handy. But also very frustrating when some apps don\u2019t support them (i.e. some developers don\u2019t use Apple\u2019s built in functionality)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The goal of those for me is, for example, to type <em>##<\/em> and to have it converted automatically to my mobile phone number. Similar with the shortcut <em>bankch:<\/em> instead of having to type my 24 digits IBAN bank number every time someone need to wire me money, this is being converted auto-magically.<\/p>\n<p>When some apps don\u2019t support this though (yes, you, Slack \ud83d\ude44), you can easily enable it by opening Terminal, and typing this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>defaults write -g WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled -bool true<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some apps, I had to log out and log in again. And boom, no more frustration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-width=\"625\" data-height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/800\/1*7uPQ9fHpnO5-6pZZFF3ncg.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justsomething.co\/21-hilarious-text-replacement-pranks-that-will-make-you-laugh-way-more-than-you-should\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/justsomething.co\/21-hilarious-text-replacement-pranks-that-will-make-you-laugh-way-more-than-you-should\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What are you handy text replacements?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a ton of text replacements on my Mac and iPhone. It\u2019s super handy. But also very frustrating when some apps don\u2019t support them (i.e. some developers don\u2019t use Apple\u2019s built in functionality)\u2026 The goal of those for me is, for example, to type ## and to have it converted automatically to my mobile&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/mac-ios-text-replacements-everywhere\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,41],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerdy-stuff","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnaud.detheux.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}