Almost 190 secret characters are hiding behind your iPhone's default keyboard, and I'm not talking about what you see after tapping the "123" or "#+=" keys. These special composite characters can include accents, dots, and other diacritics, and you'll even see some strange typographical characters like the section sign, inverted marks, and per mille symbol. Here's how you find them. The characters uncovered here are found in the English (US) keyboard available on iOS 15, iOS 16, and iOS 17, but you'll find most of them on older iOS versions and also on iPadOS. Keyboards in other languages... more