Basics
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Entering text
Keyboard layout
A keyboard appears automatically when you enter text.
Break to the next line.
Delete a preceding character.
Enter symbols.
Change the keyboard settings.
Enter uppercase. For all caps, tap it
twice.
Enter a space.
Text entry is not supported in some languages. To enter text, you must change the
input language to one of the supported languages.
Changing the input language
Tap
→
Languages and types
→
Manage input languages
and select the languages to
use. When you select two or more languages, you can switch between the input languages
by swiping to the left or right on the space key.
Changing the keyboard
On the navigation bar, tap
to change the keyboard.
To change the keyboard type, tap
→
Languages and types
, select a language, and then
select the keyboard type you want.
•
If the keyboard button (
) does not appear on the navigation bar, launch the
Settings
app, tap
General management
→
Language and input
→
On-screen
keyboard
, and then tap the
Show Keyboard button
switch to activate it.
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On a
3x4 keyboard
, a key has three or four characters. To enter a character, tap the
corresponding key repeatedly until the desired character appears.