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On iOS 7 & iOS 8 the Shift key will have the following different looks:
- White Arrow = lowercase letter
- Black Arrow = Uppercase Letter
- Underline Black Arrow = CAPS LOCK ON
On iOS 9 the keyboard will actually reflect whether the letters are lowercase or uppercase. CAPS LOCK will still show a line underneath the arrow.
Dictation is available on the following devices:
- iPad 3
- iPad 4
- iPad Air
- iPad Air 2
- iPad mini
- iPad mini 2
- iPad mini 3
- iPad mini 4
- iPhone 4s
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 5c
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 6
- iPhone 6+
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s+
- iPod Touch 5th generation
“When using Dictation you need to make sure that you speak clearly and say your punctuation marks.”
To use dication, you need Siri enabled. You can enable Siri in Settings > General > Siri and you have to be connected to the internet.
These are to be spoken when Dictation is active:
- “All Caps” to capitalize all of only the next word (e.g. START)
- “Caps” to capitalize the next word (e.g. Start)
- “Upper Case [letter]“ for making a spelling out acronyms (e.g. SAT)
- “Caps On” to turn on caps lock
- “Caps Off” to turn off caps lock
- “No Caps” to use no capitals with the word
- “Numeral [number]“ to type the number rather than word
- “New Paragraph” to create a new paragraph
- “New Line” to insert and start a new line
- “No Space” to prevent a space from being between the next word
- “No Space On” to turn off all spaces in the next sequence of words (helpful for passwords)
- “No Space Off” to resume normal spacing between words
Here is how you would say the various puncuation marks:
- question mark ?
- inverted question mark ¿
- exclamation point !
- hyphen -
- dash –
- em dash —
- underscore _
- comma ,
- open parenthesis (
- close parenthesis )
- open square bracket [
- close square bracket ]
- open brace {
- close brace }
- semi colon ;
- ellipsis …
- quote “
- end-quote ”
- back quote “
- single quote ‘
- end single quote ’
- double-quote “
- apostrophe ‘
- colon :
- slash /
- back slash \
- tilde ~
- ampersand &
- percent sign %
- copyright sign ©
- registered sign ®
- section sign §
- dollar sign $
- cent sign ¢
- degree sign º
- caret ^
- at sign @
- Pound sterling sign £
- Yen sign ¥
- Euro sign €
- pound sign #