Numbers User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
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- Intro to Numbers
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalize templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Touchscreen basics
- Use VoiceOver to create a spreadsheet
- Copyright
Prevent accidental editing in Numbers on iPhone
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 Numbers spreadsheet to someone else, or someone sends a spreadsheet to you, it opens in reading view on iPhone and iPad. When you reopen a spreadsheet, 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. On iPhone models with a small screen, tap 
at the top of the screen, then tap Stop Editing.Note: If you have editing controls open, tap Done to see the reading view button.
In reading view, comments aren’t visible and the Cell Action Menu and Numbers keyboard are not available.