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livetohike

(23,023 posts) Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:05 PM Feb 2018

Hi everyone. I mostly access DU from my iPhone7.Lately,

when I type certain punctuation marks (such as using quotation marks or apostrophes) they don’t show up in the final post. Any idea how to fix this? It only happens on DU.

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Hi everyone. I mostly access DU from my iPhone7.Lately, (Original Post) livetohike Feb 2018 OP

Go to "Settings -- General -- Keyboard -- Smart Punctuation." klook Feb 2018 #1

Thanks so much! Doing that now! n/t livetohike Feb 2018 #2

It worked! Thanks again. I'm no longer looking careless, livetohike Feb 2018 #3

Cool - I was dismayed by this "feature" for quite a while klook Feb 2018 #4

klook

(12,903 posts)

1. Go to "Settings -- General -- Keyboard -- Smart Punctuation."

Reply to livetohike (Original post)

Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:12 PM

Feb 2018

Turn off Smart Punctuation to disable the curly quotes. A while back the DU admins disabled the display of these, for some reason -- it may have had to do with bandwidth concerns, I'm not sure.

This is a function of the iOS operating system, by the way, not specific to phone version as far as I know.