Keynote User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
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- Intro to Keynote
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create your first presentation
- Open a presentation
- Save and name a presentation
- Find a presentation
- Print a presentation
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Basic touchscreen gestures
- Use Apple Pencil with Keynote
- Create a presentation using VoiceOver
- Copyright
Use Apple Pencil with Keynote on iPad
You can use your Apple Pencil in Keynote on iPad to create drawings and select and scroll as you would with your finger. By default, when you use Apple Pencil, you enter a drawing view. If you want to use Apple Pencil for scrolling and selecting objects instead, you can change its default setting.
Change the default Apple Pencil behaviour for Keynote
The default setting applies only to Keynote. If you change the setting in one presentation, it applies to all Keynote presentations but doesn’t affect other applications, such as Pages and Numbers.
Open a Keynote presentation, then tap
.Tap Apple Pencil (scroll down to see it), then turn on Select and Scroll.
If your Apple Pencil supports it, you can turn on Double-Tap to Switch, then double-tap the lower part of Apple Pencil to turn Select and Scroll on and off.
If you change the default setting to Select and Scroll, you can still use Apple Pencil to draw in Keynote. Tap 
, tap 
, then tap Drawing.