Prevent accidental editing in Keynote 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 Keynote presentation to someone else or someone sends a presentation to you, it opens on iPhone and iPad in reading view. When you reopen a presentation, it opens the way you left it—in reading view or editing view.

If you prefer to always open presentations in editing view, you can change this setting.

Go to the Keynote app on your iPhone.
Open a presentation, then 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.
- Set presentations you receive to always open in editing view: Tap , tap Settings, then turn on Open in Edit View. If you later change a presentation to reading view, it opens in reading view the next time you open it.

In reading view, you can read (but not edit) presentation notes and use a remote control if this setting in the presentation is turned on.

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Keynote User Guide for iPhone

Prevent accidental editing in Keynote on iPhone