A closeup picture of a phone keyboard. The acronym T9 stands for Text on 9 keys. T9 "predictive texting" is a tool used primarily on non-smartphones (those with just a nine-key keyboard similar to a ...

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Apple released iOS 18.3 in January, and that update brought some bug fixes to all iPhones. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, the tech giant brought T9 dialing to all iPhones. With T9 ...

At CES, a company called Direction9 is taking T9 and making it modern. At CES, a company called Direction9 is taking T9 and making it modern. is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a ...