After waking your iPad Pro with a tap, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to go to the home screen. The app dock lives just below the bottom of your screen. Swipe up to see it. Screenshot Of iPad Home Screen. Taking a screenshot is a feature that we all know and love. You can just press the home and side buttons or you can be a little fancy with a shortcut. Press Command + Shift + 3 and just like that, you will have taken a screenshot. If you also have a Macbook they use the same command so it’s easier to remember.
“Apple Smart Keyboard” makes typing smooth sailing. With the tactile feedback, the keys are designed to accelerate your typing. Wish to get the most out of it? We’ve listed out some of the very handy Apple Smart Keyboard shortcuts, which can let you carry out tasks more efficiently on your iPad Pro.
Find the image you want to capture. Search through your iPad to find any image that you want to capture. You can pick an interesting part of an email, take a screenshot of the app that shows the weather in your town, take a picture of something compelling you found on the internet, take a screenshot of a funny texting exchange you had with a friend, or capture a variety of other images. By default, you get a large on-screen keyboard that takes up the whole width of your iPad’s display. Using a pinching gesture, you can shrink the keyboard into a tiny module in the middle of the screen. How to View app-specific shortcuts with the Smart Keyboard. To find out the list of shortcuts, you can use with app, hold down the Command key for a few seconds. Next, a list of the keyboard shortcuts will pop up on the screen. Moreover, you will be able to get it done both in third-party apps and stock apps.
Using the keyboard shortcuts, you can perform certain commands fast. And if you have used Mac, you will find them very familiar as most of them use the Command ⌘ key like a Mac. Have used PC keyboard before? Well, Command ⌘ key does the same thing as the Control key on a Windows computer.
Apple Smart Keyboard Shortcuts to Let You Get the Most Out of Your iPad Pro
How to Return to the Home screen with the Smart Keyboard
Accessing Home screen is quite upfront. If you ever want to return to the Home screen, use Command + H shortcut.
How to Switch between apps with the Smart Keyboard
Switching between apps with Smart Keyboard is pretty simple. To do so, hold down the Command key and press the Tab key.
An App Switcher will show up on the screen. You need to keep holding the Command key and tapping the Tab key until you have found the app you wish to jump into. Once the app is highlighted, release the Command key.
How to Access emoji with the Smart Keyboard
Accessing emoji with Smart Keyboard is as straightforward as you would like. Simply tap on the Globe Key in the bottom left of the keyboard at the lower left corner next to the control key.
Once you have used it, tap on globe key again in the bottom right corner of the screen to hide the keyboard.
How to Navigate pages and documents with the Smart Keyboard
Navigating pages as documents with Smart Keyboard is just as upfront.
You need to use Command + any arrow key to jump to the top or bottom of any page or document.
How to Spotlight search with the Smart Keyboard
You will be able to instantly access Spotlight Search with the Smart Keyboard. To do so, use the Command + Space shortcut.
How to View app-specific shortcuts with the Smart Keyboard
To find out the list of shortcuts, you can use with app, hold down the Command key for a few seconds. Next, a list of the keyboard shortcuts will pop up on the screen. Moreover, you will be able to get it done both in third-party apps and stock apps.
Check out the six simple keyboard shortcuts, which you may already be knowing:
- Select All: Command-A
- Cut: Command-X
- Copy: Command-C
- Paste: Command-V
- Bold: Command-B
- Italics: Command-I
How to Switch from your Smart Keyboard to software keyboard on iPad Pro
At times, you may want to use your software keyboard instead of the Smart Keyboard to carry out certain things like using dictation. iOS lets you switch between Smart Keyboard to software keyboard with ease.
In order to access software keyboard, simply tap the down arrow key on your Smart Keyboard, then touch and hold it until software keyboard shows up on the screen.
That’s pretty much it!
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You can have file and folder shortcuts on the iPad Home Screen. It can be very convenient if you have some folders you use a lot.
Example:
I use Xequence 2 a lot, so I have created a shortcut to the folder “On my iPad/Xequence 2/Midi Files”.
When I want to access the files in this folder, I can just press my Xequence 2 folder icon on the Home Screen and then the files app opens up this specific folder.
Here is a screenshot of my Home Screen, with 3 folder shortcuts to Xequence 2, Sweet Midi and Korg Gadget.
You can have shortcuts to files on the Home Screen too, but I don’t find them very useful, because when you press the shortcut they don’t open the file in the app it belongs to.
Example:
I’ve made a shortcut to an AUM project and when I press it, I would have wanted it to open up in AUM, but instead it opens in Quick Look preview mode:
Maybe it’s possible to make it open up in AUM, but I haven’t figured out how ?
So for now, I don’t find shortcuts to files very useful.
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How to make file and folder shortcuts
Well it’s not something I made, but I stumbled upon this article on macstories:
where they have made a shortcut to create file and folder shortcuts.
What you need is:
Apple’s free Shortcuts app
The free Scriptable app
The FS Bookmarks shortcut, which you can get at the bottom of the page from this link
The article mentions SLC which costs money, but you don’t need that.
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How to create a folder shortcut - step by step
The article on macstories describes how to do it, but I made an easy step by step guide with screenshots here too:
(I’m from Denmark, so some of the screenshots contains Danish language ?)
- Press the FS Bookmarks shortcut. The first time it runs, it will ask to install two scripts in Scriptable. Just do that.
- When you run FS Bookmarks after the scripts has been installed, it will ask you what you want to do:
Select “Create New Folder Bookmark” and then you’ll get this message:
- In Scriptable press the gears symbol in the upper left corner:
- Press “File Bookmarks”:
- Press on the “+” symbol in the upper right corner and select “Pick Folder”:
- Select a folder/sub folder from iCloud Drive or On my iPad. You cannot select a folder from locations like AudioShare or OneDrive:
- Choose a name for the bookmark:
- Run the FS Bookmarks again, but this time select “Get Existing File or Folder Bookmark”
- Select “Folder”
- Input the name you gave the folder bookmark.
- You will get this message. Tap Ok
- Do you want to create a launcher shortcut for this folder ? Select No I’ll do it later
- Then you’ll get a message saying the folder link is copied to the clipboard
- Now you just need to create a new shortcut and you’re done. Press “+” in the Shortcuts app
- Search for url and select the open url (or whatever it’s called, mine is in danish)
- Paste in the folder link and press next and give the shortcut a name and tap ok.
- Open the bookmarks setting again and tap the 3 dots next to the name and tap add to Home Screen.
That’s it, now you have a folder shortcut on your home screen ?
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One last thing, a tip for the files app. You problably already know this, but I'll post it anyway:
Open two instances of the files app in split view to easily drag and drop files from one location to another.
Comments
Apple Ipad Keyboard Shortcuts
- Many, many thanks!I already knew this from macstories, but you delivered that in a very convenient way!!!
- Wow, thank you very much, very deep and useful guide.
- I have an AUM project of tanpura drones which I practise trumpet to. I was looking to open AUM to that specific project as I use it every day but no joy. Must be something in AUM I would think that has to allow access to individual files. Thanks for the explanations above - I wasn’t aware of Scriptable. All the shortcuts I’ve done are in apple Shortcuts.
- Does the folder open directly, or does the iPad open the shortcuts app first?
- @mistercharlie said:
Does the folder open directly, or does the iPad open the shortcuts app first?It will open the shortcuts app for a split second, before it opens the folder in the files app.