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
• When you type on the touch screen keyboard, press and hold the Period key > tap .
2. Do any of the following:
• Tap the icons under the emojis to switch the emoji category.
• Swipe left on the emoji list to see more emojis.
3. Tap an emoji.
On the touch screen keyboard, tap to return to the keyboard view.
Type using voice dictation
You can use voice dictation to type hands-free instead of using your keyboard.
Do one of the following:
• When you type on the slider keyboard, press
.
• When you type on the touch screen keyboard, press and hold the Comma key.
To close voice dictation, tap
.
Selecting word suggestions that appear
while you type
Your device is designed to learn what you tend to say and where in a sentence you tend to say it. Your device uses this
information to try to predict what word you might type next. Suggested words appear on the letters of the touch screen
keyboard or on the row of screen keys above the slider keyboard. You can quickly select a suggested word by placing your
finger on either keyboard under the word and flicking it up toward the screen.
Select a suggested word
To use a word that appears above the slider keyboard or on the touch screen keyboard, place your finger on the keyboard
below the word, and
flick it up toward the screen.
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