The iPhone has become more and more efficient at customizing and editing various types of documents and media over time. This has occurred through the use of helpful third-party apps, as well as improvements to some of the existing default apps on the device.
But the iPhone also has some settings and formatting capabilities that persist across a number of the apps on the device. This includes features like copy and paste, as well as ways that you can customize the selected text.
Perhaps the three most common text formating choices in various word processing and text editor applications are bold, underline, and italics.
The iPhone allows you to apply these formats to selected text in some of the default apps on the device, including Mail Notes, and more.
Our guide below will show you how to apply italics to text on an iPhone.
How to Italicize Text – iPhone
- Open an app where you can edit text.
- Tap on the text to italicise and select it.
- Touch the BIU button.
- Select the Italic option.
Our guide continues below with more information on italicizing on an iPhone, including pictures of these steps.
How to Write in Italics on iPhone (Guide with Pictures)
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 13 in iOS 15.0.2. However, this will also work for most other iPhone models in most other versions of iOS.
Step 1: Open the app where you want to write.
This could be an app like Mail or Notes where you have a text editor. Note that you cannot use italics in text messages or iMessages.
Step 2: Tap on the text, then use one of the selection options until all of the text that you wish to italicize is selected.
Step 3: Tap the button with BIU on it.
Step 4: Touch the Italic button in the horizontal black bar.
The text that you selected should now be in italics.
More Information on How to Italicize on iPhone 13
When you are applying formatting to a text selection on your iPhone, the available options are:
- Speak
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Spell
If you want to remove italics from a text selection you will need to select the italic text, choose the BIU button again, then tap Italic again to restore it to normal text.
Not every app on the iPhone where you can write or edit text allows you to italicize. For example, if you want to know how to do italics on an iPhone text message then you won’t be able to do so. While there are things you can do when you select text in a text message, including:
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste
- Replace
- Look Up
- Translate
- Speak
- Share
- Spell
You aren’t able to italicize text messages on an iPhone or make them bold or underlined. Basically, all you can do to format iPhone text message text is double tap the shift key to type in all caps, or use emojis.
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