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Did you know you can navigate around the iPad using only a keyboard, without touching the screen at all? It’s part of iOS Accessibility options, and using keyboard navigation makes the iPad feel a lot more like a traditional computer, even sharing some of the keyboard shortcuts that Macs have to do things like the ever useful Command+Tab app switcher.
To use keyboard navigation, you’ll need a keyboard connected to the iPad, and then turn VoiceOver on by doing the following:
Open “Settings”, tap “General”, go to “Accessibility”, and flip “VoiceOver” to ON
With VoiceOver enabled you will gain access to the keyboard navigation feature, but there’s also a potentially annoying speaking aspect that comes with VoiceOver, just hit Control+Option+S to silence that. Now for the commands.
iPad Navigation Keyboard Commands
Basic keyboard navigation shortcuts on iPad are as follows:
Control+Option+H – Home button
Control+Option+H+H – Show multitask bar
Control+Option+i – Item chooser
Escape – Back button
Right Arrow – next item
Left Arrow – previous item
Up + Down Arrows simultaneously – tap selected item
Option + Down Arrow – scroll down
Option + Up Arrow – scroll up
Option + Left or Right Arrow – scroll left or right
Control+Option+S – turn VoiceOver speech on or off
iPad App Switcher Keyboard Commands
Arguably the most useful set of commands are related to app switching:
Command+Shift+Tab – switch to the previous app
Command+Tab – switch back to the original app
Left+Right Arrow, then Option + Left or Option+Right – navigate through Dock
Whether you have a keyboard dock, case, or just a bluetooth keyboard, check these out, they can completely change the way you use an iPad.
Thanks to Eric for pointing us to the great basis of these tips at TaoOfMac, topmost iPad image from Flickr
