How do I enter a degree symbol – ° – on an iPhone or iPad?

Let's say I'm working on my pork belly recipe [I'm not – there's only one you'll ever need] and I want to record a temperature. I don't want to write out "500 degrees" I want to write "500°". How do I do this?

Solution 1:

I've looked around for this several times but today I just found its hiding spot – the 0 key! Just hold 0 until the alternate characters are shown. In the case of 0, the only alternate character is '°'.

Solution 2:

1. Head over to this Wikipedia page and copy the ° symbol to your clipboard from the first sentence of the page.

2. Go to the Text Replacement page in Settings.

3. In the phrase field, paste your real degree symbol that you copied from Wikipedia.

4. In the shortcut field, type any shortcut phrase, like maybe the word degree)

5. Now when you type your shortcut, the real degree symbol (°) will appear automagically.