Keynote

Prevent accidental editing in Keynote on iPad

To avoid accidentally moving objects or bringing up the keyboard as you view, scroll and interact with text and objects, you can use reading view. Reading view minimises the controls to just what you need to view the content and perform basic tasks. You can quickly switch to editing view to make changes, then switch back to reading view.

When you send a Keynote presentation to someone else, or someone sends a presentation to you, it opens in reading view on iPhone and iPad. When you reopen a presentation, it opens how you left it — in reading view or editing view.

Do any of the following to switch between reading view and editing view:

Switch to editing view: Tap at the top of the screen.
Switch to editing view with text selected: Tap Edit in the menu that appears.
Switch to editing view with an image or table cell selected: Touch and hold the image or cell, then tap Edit in the menu that appears.
Switch from editing to reading view: Tap in the top-right corner of the screen. In some views, such as split screen on some iPad models, tap at the top of the screen, then tap Stop Editing.

In reading view, comments aren’t visible. You can read (but not edit) presentation notes and use a remote control if this setting in the presentation is turned on.

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Keynote User Guide for iPad

Prevent accidental editing in Keynote on iPad