In any app that allows text editing, open the onscreen keyboard by tapping a text field. You can pinch closed to shrink the keyboard, then tap individual keys to type, or use QuickPath to type by sliding from one letter to the next without lifting your finger (not available for all languages). To end a word, lift your finger. (If you tap after sliding to type a word, it deletes the whole word.)

You can drag the smaller keyboard from the bottom of the screen to move it wherever you want for easy one-handed typing.

To return to the full-size keyboard, pinch open. On the full-size keyboard, you tap keys to type.

While entering text, you can do any of the following on both the smaller keyboard and the full-size keyboard:

• Type uppercase letters: Tap Shift, or touch the Shift key and slide from the Shift key to a letter.
• Turn on Caps Lock: Double-tap Shift.
• Quickly end a sentence with a period and a space: Double-tap the Space bar.
• Correct spelling: Tap a misspelled word (underlined in red) to see suggested corrections, then tap a suggestion to replace the word, or type the correction.
• Enter numbers, punctuation, or symbols: Tap or .
• Undo the last edit: Swipe left with three fingers or tap or .
• Redo the last edit: Swipe right with three fingers or tap .
• Hide the onscreen keyboard: Tap .

See Select and edit text on iPad.