IOS Keyboard & Arrow Keys

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Running the iOS 9.2.1 on an iPhone 6S and an iPad 4 Mini, I notice that the iPhone keyboard in landscape mode now includes left & right arrow keys (how long, I wonder?). This does not appear to be the case in the iPad, even though you would expect that they would fit more easily there.

Is there a way I can get these arrow keys for the landscape orientation or for the iPad?

(I don’t mean on specialised keyboards in some apps, but on the standard keyboard).

Thanks

Best Answer

With the iPads, you can hold two fingers on the keyboard and move the cursor around by moving your two fingers around.

Additionally, you can double tap you fingers on the keyboard and it will select current word. If you double tap but keep your fingers down on the screen on the second tap, you can use this to select text by cursor position.

On the iPhone 6S, you can actually hard press (3D touch) to move the cursor, rather than using arrow keys in landscape.

Related Solutions

Mac – Lion: Map Option + arrow to home/end

To remap home and end in Terminal, run f=~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.terminal.plist; plutil -convert xml1 $f; open $f -e, and change this:

<key>F729</key>
<string>scrollToBeginningOfDocument:</string>
<key>F72B</key>
<string>scrollToEndOfDocument:</string>

To this:

<key>F729</key>
<string>&#x1b;OH</string>
<key>F72B</key>
<string>&#x1b;OF</string>

To change them in normal text views, create ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like this as DefaultKeyBinding.dict:

{
    "\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfParagraph:;
    "\UF72B" = moveToEndOfParagraph:;
    "$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfParagraphAndModifySelection:;
    "$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfParagraphAndModifySelection:;
}

Another option would be to use KeyRemap4MacBook. See the "Use PC Style Home/End (except in Virtual Machine,RDC)" setting in https://raw.github.com/tekezo/KeyRemap4MacBook/master/Tests/lib/string/data/checkbox.xml.

IPad – Wired keyboard for iPad Mini

Nope, it won't work. Apple disabled the functionality a while ago with an iOS update. It only worked for few months on the first iPad with the Camera connection kit.

I tested it on my iPad 2. If I remember well, when connecting an Apple USB keyboard it poped a message that said the connector can't provide enough power ... Probably a fake reason because it worked before.

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Mac – Lion: Map Option + arrow to home/end

IPad – Wired keyboard for iPad Mini

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