How Placeholders Work
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A Placeholder is a part of a Template that Typing Hero fills in or acts on, such as today's date or the text you copied last.
For example:
Template for ,order
Your order was placed on Date and will ship on Date Offset, 2 days later. I'll send the tracking number.
Typed on 4 November, it inserts
Your order was placed on 4 November and will ship on 6 November. I'll send the tracking number.
Add a Placeholder
- Open the Text Snippet.
- Tap in the Template where the Placeholder should go.
- In the row of buttons above the keyboard, tap the Placeholder.
- If a dialog opens, choose its options and tap Insert.
- Tap Save (Save).
The Text Snippet Editor shows each Placeholder as a highlighted label in capital letters, so you can tell it apart from your own text.
Available Placeholders
| Placeholder | Inserts |
|---|---|
| Cursor | Nothing. It sets where the cursor goes. |
| Clipboard | The text you copied last. |
| Date, Time | The current date or time. |
| Date Offset, Time Offset Premium | A date or time before or after now. |
| Date Range Premium | The first and last dates of a week or month. |
| Form Premium | Details you type each time, such as a name. |
| Contact Premium | A name, phone number, or email from a contact you choose. |
| Reference Premium | The Template of another Text Snippet. |
| Commands Premium | Nothing. Keyboard Action, Send, and Send and Back press the keyboard's action key or send the message. |
Prompts while expanding
Some Placeholders ask you for details before Typing Hero inserts the Template: Form, Contact, and Offsets set to When it expands. A small window opens over the app you're typing in. If you close it, the Keyword stays as you typed it. On Android 17 and later, Contact opens Android's contact picker instead, and closing the picker also leaves the Keyword.
Without Premium
Cursor, Clipboard, Date, and Time are free. The other Placeholder buttons show a lock, and tapping one opens the Premium screen.
Without Premium, a Text Snippet doesn't expand if it uses a Premium Placeholder, itself or in a Text Snippet it refers to. Typing Hero shows This Text Snippet uses a feature that requires Premium.