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Basics
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Entering text
Keyboard layout
A keyboard appears automatically when you enter text to send messages, create notes, and
more.
Text entry is not supported in some languages. To enter text, you must change the
input language to one of the supported languages.
Break to the next line.
Change the input language.
Delete a preceding character.
Hide the keyboard.
Enter symbols.
Enter numbers.
Additional keyboard functions
Enter a space.
View more keyboard functions.
Changing the input language
Tap the input language key to switch between the input languages. Tap
→
Languages
and types
→
Manage input languages
and select the languages to use.
Changing the keyboard
To change the keyboard type, tap
→
Languages and types
, select a language, and then
select the keyboard type you want.
On a
Pinyin 3 x 4 keyboard
, a key has three or four characters. To enter a character,
tap the corresponding key repeatedly until the desired character appears.