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> On Android, unless you have a different keyboard in use which doesn't support this of course, long press on the number on the touch keyboard gives superscripts as an option

chucks iPad out the window

We only get the standard shift character as an option. E.g. 1 shows !, 2 shows @, etc.

I’d use superscripts all the time if it was on the keyboard. Anyone know if MacOS can do it? Other than pressing the weird globe key and searching.

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Easiest way I can think of is that you can use text substitution (System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Replacements...) to set a string of characters that should substitute to the superscript characters (you can look it up with the globe key to set it up initially). So you could make e.g. [1] map to ¹, [2] map to ², etc. You could also use this trick on i(Pad)OS (Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Text Substitutions). In fact, the substitutions should sync across if you're logged into the same Apple ID.

The “UniChar” app, among others, can be used as an alternative keyboard “language” to access Unicode symbols with an interface similar to the emoji picker. Includes “favorites” and “recently used” sections.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unichar-unicode-keyboard/id880...

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