User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Setup and basics
- Your device at a glance
- Insert the SIM card
- Insert a media card
- Move between home screens
- Get around with navigation buttons
- Touch screen gestures
- Motion gestures
- Apps, widgets, and shortcuts
- Personalizing your device
- Phone and voice
- Keyboard, language, and typing
- BlackBerry Keyboard and typing
- Using gestures with the slider keyboard
- Show or hide the touch screen keyboard
- Typing on the BlackBerry Keyboard
- Change the settings for keyboard, input, or typing
- Type more accurately with prediction and correction settings
- Type faster with key press feedback settings
- Select text using the BlackBerry Keyboard
- Cut, copy, and paste text
- Delete text using the BlackBerry Keyboard
- Use emojis
- Type using voice dictation
- Selecting word suggestions that appear while you type
- Spell check
- Creating custom text shortcuts
- Language
- Keyboard input methods
- BlackBerry Keyboard and typing
- Applications and features
- Settings
- Customize your device settings
- Overview of Quick Settings
- Overview of device settings
- Notifications
- Manage your notifications
- Change the volume of your notifications
- Change your notification sounds
- Change your Interruptions settings
- Turn off all sounds and notifications except calls
- Turn off all alerts
- Customize notifications for an app
- Customize lock screen notifications
- Add owner info to your lock screen
- BlackBerry Smart Flip Case
- Storage space and media cards
- Connections
- Wireless connection icons
- Choosing a connection
- Turn on airplane mode
- Mobile network
- Wi-Fi connections
- Bluetooth connections
- Turn on Bluetooth technology
- About pairing and connecting your device with a Bluetooth enabled device
- About using Google Voice Search™ when connected to a car kit
- Set which accounts Bluetooth enabled devices can access
- Change the name of your device for Bluetooth connections
- Change setup of a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- View a list of files you received over Bluetooth
- Disconnect from a Bluetooth enabled device
- Delete a paired Bluetooth enabled device
- Supported Bluetooth profiles
- Troubleshooting: Bluetooth connections
- NFC
- Tethering and mobile hotspot
- VPN connections
- Emergency broadcast messages
- Data usage
- Battery and power
- Display
- Accessibility
- Users
- Backup and reset
- Update your device software
- Security
- Legal notice
Change the settings for keyboard, input, or typing
You can personalize your typing experience by changing the BlackBerry Keyboard, input, or typing settings on your device.
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen once using two fingers, or twice using one finger.
2.
Tap > Language & input.
Type more accurately with prediction and correction
settings
You can change the BlackBerry Keyboard settings so that your device automatically predicts what you are likely to type and
corrects typing errors. The keyboard can also capitalize new sentences or insert a period when you press the space key
twice.
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen once using two fingers, or twice using one finger.
2.
Tap > Language & input > BlackBerry Keyboard Settings > Prediction and correction.
3. Tap the settings that you want to change.
Type faster with key press feedback settings
You can change your typing settings to help you type faster and more accurately on your BlackBerry Keyboard. Your device
can be set to vibrate and make a sound when you tap keys on the touch screen keyboard.
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen once using two fingers, or twice using one finger.
2.
Tap > Language & input > BlackBerry Keyboard Settings > Key press feedback.
3. Tap the settings that you want to change.
Select text using the BlackBerry Keyboard
1. Highlight the text that you want to select:
• On the screen, touch and hold a word.
• On the screen, when you edit text, tap the text to insert the cursor handle.
• On the slider keyboard, when you edit text, double-tap the keyboard to insert the cursor handle.
2. To expand the text selection, do one of the following:
• On a highlighted word, drag a cursor handle until your entire selection is highlighted.
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