Slash Keyboard Makes It Easy to Send Text to GIFs, Videos and More From One Place
iOS: If you want to send someone a GIF or a song, you usually need to copy and paste the link from another app. Slash Keyboard eliminates this step with an iOS keyboard that lets you share GIFs, songs, videos and more right from your text client.
After you download Slash to your phone, you will need to add it by going to Settings> General> Keyboard> Keyboards . The app gives you step-by-step instructions for accessing it, which is not that hard.
Once you have it installed, you can access the forward slash keyboard the next time you send text. From there you simply press or type ” / “. After that, you’ll see a list of apps, from Giphy to YouTube to your contacts and Foursquare. You can share information from any of these applications directly from your text client.
For example, if I want to share a video on YouTube, I click / and then click youtube. Then I typed whatever video I was looking for. Slash automatically searches as you type and then you just click on the video you have in mind. From there, you can paste it directly into the text.
It’s convenient and fun, but keep in mind: Slash collects information about your actions through its application:
In our ongoing effort to improve the tilted keyboard, we may automatically collect certain information when users access and use the tilted keyboard. Such information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser type and language, referring and closing pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time spent on certain pages, which sections of Slash Keyboard users visit, log files and similar information, and data.
They say they take reasonable steps to keep your information secure, but before you try it yourself, you’ll want to read their full privacy policy here . You can check the app itself from the link below.
Slash Keyboard | Apple Store