Apple's Phone App Finally Supports T9 Dialing in iOS 18
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T9 dialing, or Text on 9 keys, is a predictive text technology that emerged in the late 90s to make it easier to type text messages on devices with...
  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    3·
    5 months ago

    What made T9 great wasn’t necessarily the reduction in keys but the fact you could do it without looking at the phone because of the tactile response of the location of the buttons. It’s gonna be much harder without that feedback and if you’re looking a keyboard is gonna work quicker.

    • Nate@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I think you’re mistaking T9 dialing with T9 texting. T9 Dialing uses the letter on the keys to search through your contacts to make find a number. 236 has the letters BEN. It would also return someone named Admond or a contact with 236 in the number. Before, iPhones would only return the result of a number with 236 in it, and you would have to search through you address book if you didn’t know their number