How To: Type the  symbol on your iPhone

Posted by on Friday, September 12, 2008 · 13 Comments 


FINALLY! This will come in SOOOO handy!

If you’re nything like me, you use the  symbol more often thn lmost ny other text chrcter in the world, nd you were probbly pretty upset when you found tht pple did not include the pple symbol in the iPhone’s keybord. Well, don’t worry, fithful Mcenstein reder Kenji has found  very convoluted wy to regin your pple symbol functionlity on your iPhone. Here’s how:

Step 1: Enable the Japanese QWERTY Keyboard on your iPhone which is found under Settings> General> Keyboard> International Keyboards> Japanese.

Step 2: Type a new message. Notice that little “Globe” icon by the space bar? Tap that to toggle to the Japanese Keyboard.


Type “appuru”. Apple’s predictive text will do the rest.

Step 3: Type in “appuru” . You should see the  symbol appear. Select it, then tap the globe to get back to your regular old keyboard.

What could be simpler?

[UPDATE: I can't seem to do this now with the 2.1 Update. WHY APPLE! WHY?!? (Anyone know of a workaround?)]

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13 Responses to “How To: Type the  symbol on your iPhone”
  1. Miguel says:
    September 12, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    I can’t seem to do this now with the 2.1 Update. WHY APPLE! WHY?!?

    Time to go back to 2.0.2!

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  2. Dr. Macenstein says:
    September 12, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Agreed! How the hell are we supposed to get anything done without the  symbol ?
    :)
    -The Doc

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  3. ssj_goha says:
    September 12, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    i’m amazed at how much nicer the new japanese keyboard is…..

    It sort of sucks that is no longer in there……

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  4. jpoa says:
    September 12, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    I’m so unsubscribing this blog…

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  5. Alex says:
    September 12, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    ah COME OOON APPLE! I didn’t even get a chance to see it! I just HATE this thing they have against the apple logo.. they pulled it off the keyboard, the iPod cable, and now the iPod keyboard..

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  6. Pony says:
    September 13, 2008 at 2:53 am

    How do you get the apple symbol on a regular apple keyboard?

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  7. Andy says:
    September 13, 2008 at 7:09 am

    Well, you’ve obviously already got it typed once. And you’ve got the 2.1 software.

    Just cut and pas…

    … what? You’re kidding. STILL? For Pete’s sake…

    Never mind.

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  8. byronchurch says:
    September 13, 2008 at 3:39 pm

     alt / shift / k

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  9. Dr. J says:
    September 14, 2008 at 10:10 am

    The  logo is still there in my iPhone 2.1, just type an “a” in japanese keyboard and it pops up.

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  10. Jim says:
    September 14, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Wht? Is it there or not? Our lives hang in the balance and we can’t get a straight answer here…

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  11. xero says:
    September 15, 2008 at 5:45 am

    WT!!!!

    HW did I Liv withut this fr 1 yars

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  12. Wordman says:
    September 15, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Now all you have to do is figure out how to use HTML well enough to actually render the symbols your talking about in a browser properly. Hint: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/

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  13. Ethan says:
    January 25, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    the fix:
    put the symbol in an email, open it on the iphone or itouch, and copy and paste it to the notepad

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