User's Guide

Touseadditionalkeyboardshortcuts,gotoSettings>Accessibility>Keyboards>FullKeyboard
Access,thenturnonFullKeyboardAccess.SeeControliPadwithanexternalkeyboard.
Note:Youcanalsosetuptextreplacementsthatenterwordsorphrasesafteryoutypejustafew
characters.Forexample,type“omw”toenter“Onmyway!”SeeSavekeystrokeswithtext
replacementsoniPad.
Youcanalsoacceptsuggestedwordsbeforeyoufinishtypingthem.SeeUsepredictivetextoniPad.
ChangetypingoptionsforanexternalkeyboardwithiPad
Whenusinganexternalkeyboard,youcanchangetypingoptionssuchasturningauto-correction,
predictivetext,andsmartpunctuationonoroff.
Changetypingoptionsforanexternalkeyboard
YoucanchangehowiPadautomaticallyrespondstoyourtypingonanexternalkeyboard.
GotoSettings >General>Keyboard>HardwareKeyboard,thendoanyofthefollowing:
Assignanalternativekeyboardlayout:Tapalanguageatthetopofthescreen,thenchoosean
alternativelayoutfromthelist.
Analternativekeyboardlayoutisonethatdoesnʼtmatchthekeysonyourexternalkeyboard.For
example,theABC-ExtendedalternativelayoutallowsyoutopresstheOptionkey,thentype
lettersanddiacriticalmarksfromseveraldifferentEuropeanlanguages,includingSpanish,Czech,
French,German,Hungarian,andPolish.Forexample,toenterñ,pressOption-n,thentypeann.
TheABC-ExtendedlayoutalsoallowsyoutoentertonemarksfortypingMandarinChinesein
Pinyinorthography.Forexample,totypeǚinlǚxíng(“travel”),pressOption-vfollowedbyv.
TurnAuto-Capitalizationonoroff:Whenthisoptionisselected,anappsupportingthisfeature
capitalizespropernounsandthefirstwordsinsentencesasyoutype.
TurnAuto-Correctiononoroff:Whenthisoptionisselected,anappsupportingthisfeature
correctsthespellingasyoutype.
Turn“.”Shortcutonoroff:Whenthisoptionisselected,double-tappingthespacebarinsertsa
periodfollowedbyaspace.
Changetypingoptionsforallkeyboards
Youcanturnonoroffspecialtypingfeatures—suchaspredictivetextandsmartpunctuation—that
assistyouwhenyoutype.Thesesettingsapplytoyouronscreenkeyboardandexternalkeyboard.
1. GotoSettings>General,thentapKeyboard.
2. InthelistbelowAllKeyboards,turntypingfeaturesonoroff.
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