Hi I'm Andy Walker and welcome to another episode of the iPhone basics, the tutorial series from Butterscotch.com. Today I'm going to show you how to use the keyboard on the iPhone. Now you will notice here that there is actually no keyboard. Where is the keyboard? I mean it’s not here. It doesn’t roll out anywhere.
Well the iPhone uses an onscreen keyboard called a soft keyboard. So let's engage the text message here. Text messaging feature and I'm going to text message my friends at Tucows Corporation which I've already added and of course you can add somebody here by pushing this button. But anyway this is about typing, not about text messaging so let me show you how to type.
So as you can see this is a QWERTY keyboard just like on your computer and to type you simply touch the screen on the appropriate letters so I'm going to type, “Hi, how are you?” Now as you can see as I type each letter it gets larger so I know that I actually touched it and there's no punctuation on the screen.
To get to the punctuation, you need to push this button down here. I'm going to touch right now. I'm going to type a question mark and I'm going to type LOL, laugh out loud in caps. So notice that the caps lock is engage as soon as I start a new sentence. So I type capital L. It will go off I want to turn it on again, O and turn on again, L. The only thing I've noticed there is that there was a suggested spelling, so let me show you how that works. So let's have typing LOL. Let’s try typing the word Andy. How? I'm talking how and suggesting Go here. So what happens is as you type, it suggests words and the things you might want to type as opposed to what you are typing in case you think you mistyped it. So if I wanted to change that to GO I would simply push the space button. Now if I really want to type how and I want that to go away, that I really do want to take, type HO then I guess you touch the suggestion to make it go away.
Now to delete, use the backspace button here, delete all the way back. To actually create a new line I hit the return button down here. I can actually create multiple line messages and I want to take you to numerical keyboard and you get all the numbers plus you get some common punctuation. And then if you further want some enhanced characters I'm going to push this here so it looks like the plus pen sign, plus or equal so that giving you more unusual characters that I might want to use as I type.
To go back to the ABCs, the QWERTY keyboard, I want to type and hit ABC and that’s basically how to type. So with that I’m going to say goodbye and let's do that, THE END.
Thanks for watching. I'm Andy Walker, the Executive Producer of Butterscotch.com and this is iPhone basics, a tutorial series and you can see more of this and other tutorials at Butterscotch.com.
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