iPhone 101: Hold your ".com" button for a second

If you are running the new 2.0 firmware on your iPhone or iPod touch, you might not have noticed a new handy shortcut in Safari. When you type in your address, hold down the ".com" button to get a selection of 3 other domain name endings: ".net," ".edu," and ".org." When you tap on any of the endings, it will be automatically inserted in the address bar.

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Sam Soffes

I work at LifeChurch.tv. I type .tv a lot in web addresses. It would be awesome if you could customize it, but I'm glad they don't allow that. Can you imagine if all of the keyboard things like this were customizable. The settings app would be crazy.

Good job Apple. Thank you for keeping it simple.

July 17 2008 at 4:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JMW

This is a good tip but why doesn't it have .tv? It should.

July 16 2008 at 12:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sebes

In fact, this works on localized iphone/ipod touch since 1.1.3 or 4 firmware. But just for your own country domain name ending

July 16 2008 at 10:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Manos Lijeros

Why not let us choose what domains to add? I mean, I need .us...

July 16 2008 at 8:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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July 16 2008 at 8:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

This feature has always been there in italian and - I guess - other non-english keyboards.
In the previous version of the fw we used to have .com and .it buttons while we currently have .com, .it, .org, .edu.
A .net button would be very useful as it's much more common than .edu.

July 16 2008 at 3:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

graham

I'm wondering why .net has been replaced with .co.uk on UK phones, whilst .edu has been left there (an extension I doubt very few people in the UK use on a regular basis - we use .ac.uk for our universities).

July 16 2008 at 2:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pierce

".ca" is only an option when using the French Canada keyboard, because English speaking Canadians don't visit .ca websites, apparently.

July 15 2008 at 10:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Kev Orng

I used to have a similar problem in OSX Panther... I couldn't switch to Canadian English spelling without having my keyboard converted to a French Canadian layout. Drove me nuts.

Now I need a French Canadian keyboard on my iPT to get .ca? Boo!

July 16 2008 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

play games

This is great and all, but where is the shortcut for .biz ????

Come on Apple!

j/k

July 15 2008 at 8:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fozzy Bear

i wish i had known that no one knew this...

i'd has posted about it a long time ago since i started enterprise beta testing... i had nearly forgotten it was new it became so habitual.

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