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Create a BlackBerry ID
When you create a BlackBerry ID, you can use any email address for your BlackBerry ID; you do not have to use an email
address that you have added to your BlackBerry smartphone.
1. Do one of the following:
From a computer, visit www.blackberry.com/blackberryid. Click Register for a BlackBerry ID.
If you are prompted on your smartphone, click Create New.
2. Complete the instructions on the screen.
Change your BlackBerry ID information
You can change your user name, display name, security question and answer, and password.
1. On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2. Click Device > BlackBerry ID.
3. Change the fields.
4.
Press the key > Save.
You can also change your BlackBerry ID information from a computer, by going to www.blackberry.com/blackberryid.
Keep an application running in the background and switch to another
application
To switch to another application, press and hold the key until the application switcher appears. Click an application
icon. If the application icon that you want doesn't appear, click the Home icon and navigate to the application icon that
you are looking for.
To return to the Home screen if you are not on a call, press the key.
To return to the Home screen if you are on call, press and hold the key until the application switcher appears. Click
the Home icon.
Note: If you press the key while you are on a call, you will end the call even if you have switched to another application.
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Close an app so that it is not running in the background
To optimize the performance of your BlackBerry smartphone, try to close apps when you are finished with them.
1. To see which applications are running, press and hold the key until the application switcher appears.
2. Click an application icon.
3. In the app, do one of the following:
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