iPhone Special Characters (Umlaute/Accents)

By Cliff Kapatais | July, 3, 2008 | 7 comments

If you happen to be one of the millions of people blessed with not being born in America chances are pretty good English might not be your first language, and if that is the case chances are also pretty high that your alphabet contains some special characters… German umlaute, French accents or Spanish acentos, where the hell do you find them on the iPhone keyboard???

Since iPhone firmware 1.1.1 you can finally send decent sms, without all your friends thinking you are a complete twit because you have a funky iPhone but can’t even send messages with standard characters…

How to work the magic? Just tap and hold the letter on the keyboard you need and after a second or so a little bar will pop up offering you all sorts of accents and special characters:

umlaute am iPhone

Special characters on the iPhone

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7 Responses to iPhone Special Characters (Umlaute/Accents)

  • Max

    It works the same even if you are blessed to be born in America. That way when we send messages to the less fortunate we can condensed to use the proper grammar and spelling if we wish.

  • Mike Lopez

    Thanks a bunch!!! It took me almost an hour trying to search for a way to type ñ before I finally found your site. Didn’t think it would be that easy. Lol!!!

  • Guven Elyan

    Thank you very much. I was looking for this information since longtime.

  • to max

    You obviously understand nothing of America. We do some terrible, shitty things, and they never end up on the news. Americans pay no attention to these things, but the international news media does, and the word gets around.

    He’s hoping that one day you pull your head out of your ass. The author was 100% correct.

    P.S.
    I, unfortunately, was born American.

  • Shermica

    Thanks a lot, you made it so much simpler to email my French Sister. I no longer have to copy and paste the accented words from various websites while using my iPod touch. You really learn something new every day! Had it not been for you, I would have never known.
    -shermica

  • Soonam

    Thank you. I didn’t know how to type ñ, but finally I got your website. It was very easy after I know how to do it.

  • Daniel

    Thumbs up. Merci, gracias, harigato…

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