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
Tap an underlined word.
• To accept a spelling suggestion, tap the suggested word.
• To add the word to your personal dictionary, tap Add to dictionary.
Edit your personal dictionary
When you use the spell check feature, you can add words that are marked as incorrect to a custom dictionary on your
device so that spell check recognizes them as being correct. The words that you add to your personal dictionary can be
edited at any time.
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 > Personal dictionary.
3. Tap a language. To apply the setting to all languages, tap For all languages.
4. Do any of the following:
• To add a new word to your personal dictionary, tap , and then add the new word. When you are finished, tap
.
• To edit a word that's already in your personal dictionary, tap the word.
• To delete a word from your personal dictionary, tap the word, and then tap
.
Edit the restricted word list
The words in the restricted list are never used to correct your typing.
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 > Restricted words.
3. Do any of the following:
• To add a new word to the restricted list, tap , and then add the new word. When you are finished, tap Ok.
• To delete a word from the restricted list, tap and hold the word, and then tap Delete.
Creating custom text shortcuts
The word substitution feature lets you create your own text shortcuts. When you set up a shortcut, your device replaces the
shortcut with a word or phrase.
Note: Word substitution is also known as autotext.
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