---
title: deleteBackward()
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: uikit/uikeyinput/deletebackward()
---

# deleteBackward()

Deletes a character from the displayed text.

## Declaration

```swift
func deleteBackward()
```

## Mentioned in

Handling text interactions in custom keyboards

## Discussion

Discussion Remove the character just before the cursor from your class’s backing store and redisplay the text.

## See Also

### Inserting and deleting text

- [insertText(_:)](uikit/uikeyinput/inserttext(_:).md)
- [hasText](uikit/uikeyinput/hastext.md)