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My New iPhone
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My New iPhone

by Wallace Wang
July 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
11h
English
No Starch Press
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Switching Between Keyboards

If you look at a typical computer keyboard, you'll see that some keys represent letters, while others represent numbers and symbols. Since the iPhone screen is far smaller than a computer keyboard, the iPhone virtual keyboard can't display all of these characters at once. Instead, the virtual keyboard displays characters on one keyboard, numbers and symbols on a second keyboard, and another group of symbols on a third keyboard:

  • The Character keyboard is for typing uppercase and lowercase letters.

  • The Numeric keyboard is for typing numbers, symbols, and punctuation marks.

  • The Symbol keyboard is for typing mathematical symbols such as + or =, seldom used symbols such as square brackets [] and curly brackets {}, and even ...

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