User Guide

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Tap a text eld to see the onscreen keyboard, then tap letters to type. If you touch the wrong
key, you can slide your nger to the correct key. The letter isn’t entered until you release your
nger from the key.
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Tap Shift to type uppercase, or touch the Shift key and slide to a letter. Double-tap Shift for caps
lock. To enter numbers, punctuation, or symbols, tap the Number key or the Symbol key
. If you haven’t added any keyboards, tap to switch to the emoji keyboard. If you have
several keyboards, tap to switch to the last one you used. Continue tapping to access other
enabled keyboards, or touch and hold , then slide to choose a dierent keyboard. To quickly
end a sentence with a period and a space, just double-tap the space bar.
To type an alternate character,
touch and hold a key, then slide
to choose one of the options.
To type an alternate character,
touch and hold a key, then slide
to choose one of the options.
If you see a word underlined in red, tap it to see suggested corrections. If the word you want
doesn’t appear, type the correction.
As you write, QuickType uses predictive text to anticipate your next word. Tap a word to choose
it, or accept a highlighted prediction by entering a space or punctuation. Reject a suggestion by
tapping your original word (shown as a QuickType option with quotation marks).
QuickType suggestions
QuickType suggestions
Hide predictive text. Pull down QuickType suggestions. Pull them back up when you want them
to reappear.
Turn o predictive text. Touch and hold or , then slide to Predictive.
If you turn o QuickType, iPhone may still correct misspellings and anticipate your next word.
Accept a suggestion by entering a space or punctuation, or by tapping return. To reject a
suggestion, tap the “x.” If you reject the same suggestion a few times, iPhone stops suggesting it.