Use The Keyboard
You can enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some apps open it automatically. In others, you open it by touching where you want to type.
As you type, the keyboard displays suggestions above the top row of keys. To accept a suggestion, touch it.
Basic editing
- Move the insertion point: Touch where you want to type. The cursor blinks in the new position, and a green tab appears below it. Drag the tab to move the cursor.
- Select text: Touch & hold or double-tap within the text. The nearest word highlights, with a tab at each end of the selection. Drag the tabs to change the selection. The tab disappears after a few moments, to get out of your way. To make it reappear, touch the text again.
- Delete text: Touch to delete selected text or the characters before the cursor.
- Cut, copy, paste: Select the text you want to
manipulate. Then touch the Paste
, Cut 
, or Copy 
buttons:
, Cut 
, or Copy 
buttons:
To make the keyboard go away, touch Done.
Tips & shortcuts
- Type capital
letters: Touch the Shift key
once to switch to capital letters for one letter. Or touch &
hold the Shift key 
while you type. When you release the key, the lowercase letters
reappear. - Turn caps lock
on: Double-tap or touch & hold the Shift key
, so it changes to 
. Touch the Shift key again to return to lowercase. - Show numbers or symbols: Touch the ?123 key. To see more choices, touch the = \ < key.G Quickly access common punctuation and symbols: Touch & hold the key to the right of the space bar (period key).
- Type special
characters: Touch & hold the Shift key
while you touch a key with a small gray character in its corner to
enter the gray character. Touch & hold any key to see
alternative letters, symbols, or numbers, which you can then touch
to type. - Change input language or keyboard: Touch & hold the key to the left of the space bar (with ... in the lower-right corner), and then release it. The Input options menu appears. Choose the option you want to adjust.
once to switch to capital letters for one letter. Or touch &
hold the Shift key 
while you type. When you release the key, the lowercase letters
reappear.
, so it changes to 
. Touch the Shift key again to return to lowercase.
while you touch a key with a small gray character in its corner to
enter the gray character. Touch & hold any key to see
alternative letters, symbols, or numbers, which you can then touch
to type.