Hello all:
A friend of mine purchased a new Ipad, and she purchased an external keyboard,
Am using bluetootht keyboard on my iphone but just for typing and so on, but she needs to know Voice over gestures using external keyboard like moving between containers on ipad, and so on, so, how can i find these things ? I tried the voice over practise but can not find it,
Any help will be highly appreciated.
By Ramy, 30 March, 2026
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iOS and iPadOS
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Voiceover shortcuts.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-voiceover-with-an-external-keyboard-iph6c494dc6/ios
There are some extra keyboard shortcuts for iPad, but supposedly they mess with Voiceover, I can't check, I don't own an iPad. Here they are though. I think you'd turn these on by activatingfull keyboard access or whatever it's called.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102393
Much appreciated
I do not know if we can find a short cut to skroll between multi windows or containers or what the Ipad system call,
BUt thanks so much for helping
navigating text
Hello all:
now, she can use her keyboard to navigate all the Ipad icons and so on, but when she is inside a text, she can not navigate the text like working on a laptop,
she needs to use up / down arrows to navigate the text etc,
is there away to do this?
Changing language
I know that i can use the cabs lock to change the writing language, but it is not working,
is there away to change this shortcut? or to make it works? because here Cabs lock did not change the writing language.
THanks
Interacting?
I don't know if you can interact, VO-shift-down arrow, on iPad. But on Mac a lot of the time to get navigation with arrows in a text field on Mac, you need to interact with it first.
BTW if you have a Bluetooth keyboard you can pair with your phone, you should be able to experiment yourself. All of the VOiceover stuff should be the same, the iPadOS differences would be things like cmd-tab switching between open apps, which I think works if you have two apps open side by side on the same screen, something you can't do on the phone IIRC.
Copy and paste
OK, nice people. How do you do so? Have logitech slim folio keyboard for my iPad. How do you select text, copy and paste. In windows is easy to do and I do not even think about it. Thanks. LLC.
yes i have
I have a bluetooth keyboard, but the only thing i can not do is how to edit text professionally,
i do not be able to navigate the text like what am doing on mac or windows, so do not know what am missing exactly.
Ramy
How do you select text and copy and paste? LLC.
on ios?
I use kersor and router commands to select or selct all etc, but this is when i use the touch, but when using a keyboard, should i depend on router also?
selection
I tryied using router on Hardware keyboard, and yes it worked,
but i read on apple that i can use Command A to select all etc,
i tried it here on my iphone and it worked,
but on my friend's Ipad, no.
is there areason?
Keyboard access
I found inside accessibility, that i can tern keyboard access on or off to use a hardware keyboard with my Iphone.
but when i terne it on, all things are not working, also, i should use vo keys to move between things with arrows etc,
so, is it useful or not?
Re: Keyboard access.
I haven't experimented with this yet, but reports on here suggest that you want to turn keyboard access off for the best experience.
Keyboard access
Ok, Thanks so much i am not using it,
but just need to be sure that it will not add extra accessibility or something