User Guide

Tips and shortcuts

Tips and shortcuts

Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available.

Tips: Doing things quickly

For full instructions, click the links under Related information at the bottom.

Access popular options such as setting the alarm, viewing notifications and turning on or turning off network connections.

Highlight and click the areas at the top of the home screen.

See all the apps and folders on the Home screen, or minimise the panel and view the wallpaper.

On the navigation bar, click All.

Switch to another app.Press and hold the key. Click an app. Note: The other app might still be running in the background.

Open an app with a convenience key.

Press a convenience key on the side of your BlackBerry smartphone.

Note: You can customise which app a convenience key opens.

Use pop-up menus.

Pop-up menus provide common available actions, and appear in the centre of the screen. For example, you can use the pop-up menu in a message to file, forward or reply to the message. To open a pop-up menu, touch and hold the screen or press and hold the trackpad. To select a menu item, tap the icon or click the trackpad.

Switch to the Favourites, Media, Downloads and

On the home screen, highlight All on the navigation bar

Frequent panels.

and slide your finger on the trackpad right or left.

 

 

Add an app to the Favourites panel.

Highlight an app on the home screen or in a folder. Press

 

the

key > Mark as Favourite.

 

 

 

 

Change options for the home screen such as the

On the Home screen, press the

key > Options.

wallpaper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related information

Change what happens when you type on the Home screen, 17

Assign an application to a convenience key, 30

Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application, 216

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