Patent ID: 8570279

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display: displaying a first soft keyboard and a text input area, the first soft keyboard containing a plurality of character-insertion keys; while displaying the first soft keyboard, displaying a key for selecting a second soft keyboard different from the first soft keyboard, the second soft keyboard containing a plurality of character-insertion keys; detecting a single contact on the key for selecting the second soft keyboard; in response to detecting the single contact on the key for selecting the second soft keyboard, displaying the second soft keyboard; while maintaining the single contact, detecting the single contact moving on the touch screen display without breaking contact with the touch screen display, to a character-insertion key in the second soft keyboard; detecting lift off of the single contact from the touch screen display at the character-insertion key in the second soft keyboard to which the single contact moved; and in response to detecting lift off of the single contact from the touch screen display at the character-insertion key in the second soft keyboard to which the single contact moved: inserting a character in the text input area that corresponds to the character-insertion key in the second soft keyboard to which the single contact moved; ceasing to display the second soft keyboard; and displaying the first soft keyboard.