The elusive tilde (~)

[sallythetimid]

I was typing a text message today and somehow managed to fumble things and out popped a tilde (~), right into my text field! I tried to duplicate the text message fumble but could not. It was somewhere in the middle of this phrase: "I'm not eating lunch right now because..."

I really miss having the tilde on the keyboard and was really excited to see that it was somehow showing up! Or is my phone just crazy and wrong? Please let me know if you know what random string of keys I hit in order to make it pop out. (I was using the physical keyboard, not swype. I know how to get it in swype.)

 

[newboyx]

~ in Swype hit the symbol button then long press on the + sign

 

[ppetrelli100]

On htc one, long press 'n'. in addition to '-', tilde ('~') will pop up.

 

[RaviNat2013]

For the Galaxy S4: press SYM key. press the 1/2 key (this really page 1 of 2 pages of symbols). In the 2nd page you see the ~ (tilde) sign. Took me only 1 hour.. phew!

 

[Jesse Chisholm]

You just saved me an hour. That's worth both an "Thanks" and a "Reply".