6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising entering an empty state when the input field with autocomplete is determined to contain no characters, wherein the empty state represents a state of the application when the input field with autocomplete contains no characters and a cycling operation is inactive.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein cycling through the characters comprises: transitioning from the empty state to a first cycling state, wherein the first cycling state represents the state of the application when the cycling operation is active for a first time; shifting the characters during the duration of the first input gesture; selecting a first character among the shifted characters; and performing a first autocomplete operation to present one or more proposed words based on the first character.