You can use your keyboard for almost every task you do on your iPad thanks to a setting hidden inside Accessibility called Full Keyboard Access.
How to control your iPad completely with the keyboard You’ll find these in Settings>Accessibility>Pointer Control. You can also set the cursor so it is always visible on screen, rather than only appearing when you touch the trackpad. You can tweak the round cursor’s contrast, color, size, and scrolling speed. I wouldn’t recommend using the other keys for this as you already use them. I use keyboards in multiple languages, so I tend to use Caps Lock as an Escape key. If you want something more reliable, then hook the keyboard up to your iPad and:įollow the on-screen prompts to select a modifier key you want to use as an Escape key.
(Command-period), which invokes Escape on both Mac and iPad.
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