Pages User Guide for iPad
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Prevent accidental editing in Pages on iPad
To avoid accidentally moving objects or bringing up the keyboard as you view, scroll, and interact with text and objects, you can use reading view. Reading view minimizes the controls to just what you need to view the content and perform basic tasks. You can quickly switch to editing view to make changes, then switch back to reading view.
When you send a Pages document to someone else, or someone sends a document to you, it opens in reading view on iPhone and iPad. When you reopen a document, it opens how you left it—in reading view or editing view.
Do any of the following to switch between reading view and editing view:
Switch to editing view: Tap
at the top of the screen.Switch to editing view with text selected: Tap Edit in the menu that appears.
Switch to editing view with an image or table cell selected: Touch and hold the image or cell, then tap Edit in the menu that appears.
Switch from editing to reading view: Tap
in the top-right corner of the screen.
In reading view, comments and annotations aren’t visible, and tracked changes show the view you see when you select “Final” in change tracking (text is displayed without markup, and deleted text is hidden). The table of contents is visible, but not the bookmarks list (links to bookmarks still work).