Tips for a Quick Start
The Tio Tap keyboard layout.
Here's how you get from the traditional keyboard layout to Tio Tap:
First, each column of three keys is collapsed into one.
And then two of these keys are moved.
Your word is not complete until you press (space).
Type eat
  1. Type eat dat|
  2. Press  eat |
  3. Continue typing
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Space completes the word prediction.
If your desired word does not show up, simply press for alternatives.
Type bug
  1. Type bug but|
  2. Press  but |
  3. Press  bug |
  4. Continue typing
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Press next to cycle through alternatives.
Long-press to open the list of available suggestions.
The suggestion list contains all suggestions for the text currently being edited. You can long-press next before or after space has been pressed.
To enter a punctuation mark, press one of these keys:
Type Hi there,
  1. Type Hi there Hi there|
  2. Press  Hi there,|
  3. Press  Hi there, |
  4. Continue typing
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Type ocean.
  1. Type ocean Hi ocean|
  2. Press  oceano|
  3. Press  ocean. |
  4. Continue typing
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To type a word that is not in the dictionary, use or to piece together fragments of existing words.
Type YourName.net
  1. Type Your Your|
  2. Press  locks Your
  3. Type Name YourName|
  4. Press  locks YourName
  5. Type .net YourName.net|
  6. Press  YourName.net |
  7. Continue typing
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Use or to start new word predictions.
After typing a new word, you can add it to the dictionary.
To add a word to the dictionary, press followed by .
Many keys can be long-pressed for shortcuts.
Long-pressing lowercase and uppercase letter keys produces punctuation marks and symbols.
For example, long-pressing produces a period.
Long-press to type ocean.
  1. Type ocean ocean|
  2. Long-press  ocean.|
  3. Press  ocean. |
  4. Continue typing
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For a shortcut to the symbol @, long-press .
By pressing , you can access more long-press shortcuts.
For a shortcut to ?, press and then long-press .
For a list of all long-press shortcuts, see Long-press Shortcuts and Accelerators.
You can press (tab) to complete words.
When an auto-complete suggestion appears, press tab if you want to accept it.
Type pineapple
  1. Type pine pine|apple
  2. Press  pineapple|s
  3. Press  pineapple |
  4. Continue typing
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Press and then to hide the Tio keyboard.
After hiding, tap the screen to make the Tio keyboard reappear.
Tip: Long-pressing also hides the Tio keyboard.
Press and then to resize the Tio keyboard.
When the Resize Keyboard sliders appear, you can resize the Tio keyboard interactively. Portrait and landscape keyboards are resized independently.
Press to change keyboards.
The Full, Tap, Flix and Squiggle keyboards are available. The Full keyboard is convenient for entering passwords and other form data.
Press and select Tap (three-row) to return to the Tio Tap keyboard.
See Keyboards for details about each keyboard.