What are the essential Magic Keyboard commands? To find out what these are, press the Command key on your physical keyboard while in any app. These tend to be relatively generic, but it is worth familiarizing yourself with shortcuts specific to the apps you most regularly use. What is still the most useful iPad tip?Įvery iPad app may have its own set of keyboard shortcuts. Tap the keyboard icon to get back to using Magic Keyboard. Rather than disconnect the physical keyboard just tap the down arrow on the physical keyboard and then touch and hold the downward pointing arrow at the bottom right of the screen that you see.
There may be times when the software (on screen) keyboard is more useful than the Magic Keyboard. One thing it doesn’t do well is tilt to a drawing angle, prompting some on the Internet to note that if you turn the device so the keyboard faces away from you and prop the lip of the iPad just above the trackpad you get a kind of unofficial 'drawing angle.' (Take a look at the image above for how this works.) How to get to the software keyboard with the hardware connected
