iPad User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for models with Face ID
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off the sounds
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPad
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPad using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPad
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Connect to a TV, projector, or monitor
- Control audio on multiple devices
- Apple Pencil
- Use Smart Keyboard and Smart Keyboard Folio
- Use Magic Keyboard
- AirPrint
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Instant Hotspot
- Personal Hotspot
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Zoom an app to fill the screen
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPad software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright
Use Magic Keyboard with iPad
You can use Magic Keyboard (available separately) to enter text on your iPad. The keyboard connects via Bluetooth, so you must first pair it with iPad.
Note: Magic Keyboard may not support keyboard features that are on your device. For example, you can’t enable dictation with Magic Keyboard.
Pair Magic Keyboard with iPad
Turn on the keyboard.
On iPad, go to Settings
> Bluetooth, then turn on Bluetooth.Tap the keyboard when it appears in the Other Devices list, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Once it’s paired, the keyboard reconnects to iPad whenever it’s in range—up to about 33 feet (10 meters). When it’s connected, the onscreen keyboard doesn’t appear.
Quickly switch between apps
Press and hold the Command key, then press Tab until you reach the app you want to open.
View keyboard shortcuts
Press and hold the Command key to see shortcuts for an app.
Quickly switch between apps
Press and hold the Command key, then press Tab until you reach the app you want to open.
Open Search
Press Command-Space.
Tip: If you’ve added a Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Hebrew keyboard, you can use the Caps Lock key to quickly switch back and forth between Latin script and the other keyboard you’re using.
Switch keyboards
Using a wireless keyboard, you can switch between keyboards that appear onscreen—for example, English and any keyboards you’ve added for typing in different languages.
On the wireless keyboard, press and hold Shift-Control.
Press the Space bar to cycle through the languages.
Make the onscreen keyboard appear
Press 
on the wireless keyboard.
You can also move the wireless keyboard out of range or turn it off.
Turn off Magic Keyboard
To turn off the keyboard when you’re not using it, turn the switch on the back of the keyboard to Off.