Take Control of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

Command Keyboards

Typing in iOS and iPadOS is pretty self-explanatory, but a few tricks are easy to miss.

Learn Text-Editing Basics

Editing text is fairly intuitive, but some features aren’t always obvious. Here are the basics:

• Display the insertion point: Tap in a text area where you want the insertion point to appear.

• Move the insertion point: Tap where you want to type or place a finger on the insertion point and drag it where you want to go.

• Select text: Double-tap to select a single word. Without lifting your finger, you can drag it to continue selecting text. Triple-tap to select an entire line or quadruple-tap to select a paragraph. After text is selected, you can drag the handles to shrink or expand the expansion (Figure 65).

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