Modifying your LG keyboard characteristics

Tap the Home Button > touch and hold the Recent Apps Button > Settings > Language & input > LG Keyboard > Keyboard height and layout.

Typing tips

Enter other characters

Tap the Numbers/Symbols button to display its keyboard. Tap the Arrow buttons on the left side of the keyboard to view additional symbols. From the Numbers/Symbols keyboard, you can also tap the Graphics button to enter graphics into your text. To enter foreign characters, touch and hold the associated button to display a pop-up of character choices (e.g., the “a” button also includes an accent mark “á”), drag your finger to the character you want, then lift your finger.

Enter one capital letter

Tap the Shift button to capitalize the next letter. The button changes to .

Enter all capital letters

Double-tap the Shift button to set caps lock. The button changes to . Tap again to revert to lowercase.

Highlight text

Double-tap a word to highlight it. To highlight a range of text, double-tap a word, then drag the blue highlight markers to highlight the text you want.

Cut or copy selected text

Highlight the desired text, then tap CUT or COPY in the action box above the highlighted text.

Paste cut or copied text

Tap the location where you want to paste the text, then tap the marker . Tap PASTE in the action box that appears (or tap Clip Tray to paste text you copied from other places).

Delete a character

Tap the Delete button .

Entering text using handwriting

Touch and hold the Voice input button , then drag your finger to the Handwriting icon (in the pop-up that appears). Tap the Keyboard button to exit.

Accessing the Clip Tray and keyboard settings

Touch and hold the Voice input button , then drag your finger to the Clip Tray icon or the Settings icon (in the pop-up that appears).

Path input text entry

Swipe your finger through all of the letters of the word you want to automatically enter it (instead of tapping each letter separately).
NOTE

Enable the Path input setting to use this feature.

Text input settings

To change your text input settings and see the dictionary of terms you’ve used, tap the Home Button > touch and hold the Recent Apps Button > Settings > Language & input. From this menu you can change the language for your phone's software, set your keyboard input (including setting multiple languages and how it reacts), set Google voice settings, set your voice search and text-to-speech output preferences, as well as the set the pointer reaction time and more. See the Settings section for more information about the keyboard settings.