# Text views

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/text-views
Skill: hig-components-controls
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# Text views

## Best practices

**Use a text view when you need to display text that’s long, editable, or in a special format.**

**Keep text legible.**

**Make useful text selectable.**

## Platform considerations

### iOS, iPadOS

**Show the appropriate keyboard type.**

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