According to the instructoins one can get apostrophes while typing by holding dwon the key. So if I want to type "I'll" I would type "I" then hold down the "L" and presto apostrophe.
Alas, this does not work. Other than swithing to symbols and adding the apostrophe I have not figured out how to do this.
On other phones they will recognize words lile I'll and we'll and don't, etc.