Learn how to enter text on your Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. You can enter text with the on-screen QWERTY keyboard by tapping each letter individually, or you can use the Gesture input feature and slide your finger from letter to letter to form words. If you prefer to use a smaller version of the on-screen keyboard and input text using only one hand, you can activate the one-handed keyboard instead. You can also use Voice input to dictate text.
Here are the different ways you can enter text.
A keyboard appears automatically when you enter text to send messages, create memos, and more.
Text entry is not supported in some languages. To enter text, you must change the input language to one of the supported languages.
Tap “Keyboard Settings” (see above image) > Add input languages, and then select the languages to use. When you select two or more languages, you can switch between the input languages by swiping to the left or right on the space key.
Tap “Keyboard Settings” (see above image), select a language under Languages and types, and then select a keyboard layout to use.
[alert type=”info” icon-size=”normal”]On 3×4 keyboard, a key has three or four characters. To enter a character, tap the corresponding key repeatedly until the desired character appears.[/alert]
Tap and hold “keyboard setting icon” (see above image) to use various functions. Other icons may appear instead of the “keyboard setting icon” depending on the last function that was used.
Look up definitions for words while using certain features, such as when browsing webpages.