7 Tips & Tricks To Master The Magic Keyboard!

[Music] hey hey everyone it is Andrew here from Apple insider magic keyboard for iPad pro is an amazing device it hovers your display right above a fully backlit keyboard with an amazing glass touchpad at the top but it does so much more than it may initially let on here are several tips and tricks to make sure you get the most out of Apple's magic keyboard starting off with controlling the backlight now the backlight on the magic keyboard is adjusted automatically just based on the ambient light in the room but if you ever want to control it on your own head to settings keyboards hardware keyboards and adjust the brightness now why would you want to do this well sometimes you just may find it too bright or too dim or you're watching a video in a player that isn't officially supported on iPad OS something like on a website or inside of an app and in those cases the keyboard may not automatically dim like it will if it's using the native iPad OS video player in those cases you can easily jump into settings in dim it though we're still hoping Apple will in the future perhaps add a slider in the control center for easier use next up is that USB C port some people may not even realize there is a USB C port hidden on the hinge of the magic keyboard you can easily plug in a USB C cable and charge up your iPad it is worth noting that it does charge your iPad but it charges it slightly slower than the USB C port on the side but with you charging through the back it frees up the one on the front for additional accessories now we also want to point out that this is only used for charging the iPad you can't charge any other accessories or plek connect any hard drives or any other accessories to that USB C port so if you have anything you want to charge or accessories you want to use you have to plug this directly into the iPad pro itself if you are new to external keyboard or Apple's external keyboards you may not be sure how to access the emoji keyboard from a physical hardware keyboard luckily it's really easy to do there's that globe key and that far left hand side of the keyboard well if that's the localization button allows you to switch languages or in this case switch our keyboard to the emoji keyboard you can go ahead and press the button and the emoji keyboard will appear on-screen slide through choose the emoji you're looking for and easily add some fun to any conversation this works anywhere where you're actually typing or emoji can be inputted and when you're done tap the globe button again and the keyboard will disappear before we get to our final four tips and tricks for the magic keyboard we have to take just a moment to thank our sponsor for this video and for making it happen which is paper like paper lake is a great screen protector for your iPad that unlike other screen protectors has a matte finish this helps reduce glare make it easier on the eyes and of course makes it feel like paper as you move around the screen with your 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down or moving around with your finger like you were previously with in iPad OS many of these gestures feel very familiar for coming from a Mac when you're within an application use 3 or 4 fingers to swipe left and right to quickly jump between apps or push forward and pause for a moment to enter the app switcher and just push forward completely to get back to the home screen feels all very intuitive and of course if you're in maps or photos you can also pinch and pool zoom swipe up and down swipe back and forth between pages with two fingers and more now we already covered a lot of cursor customizations in previous videos but I just want to touch on a few of them you can get to general overview settings of a trackpad within general and then trackpad but there's even more to unlock inside of accessibility for you to really some eyes your cursor both how it works and what it looks like you can increase or decrease the contrast on it you can automatically hide the pointer or not have it automatically hide you can change the color of the cursor itself jumping in you can see we have light blue red green yellow orange whatever it is to your liking you increase the stroke size of that color to make it more pop on the screen it even goes around buttons as you hover over them because they're really easy to see whether you're just using it for yourself you like to add some style or you want to see it up on a big screen giving a presentation you can turn off those pointer animations which is what morphs around buttons throughout the OS and of course you can change the inertia and the scrolling speed one thing I really want to make sure you have enabled is to have to click now without tap to click you have to physically push down the trackpad in order to register a click on the display or touch on the display and sometimes it can just slow you down some people don't like that and you'd love to use just tap to click even with two fingers tapping to click luckily that can be enabled within general then trackpad just go ahead and turn on tap to click and let two fingers secondary click now just tapping on that trackpad surface without fully clicking it down will register a click or a tap it's much easier to do anything go a lot faster once you get used to it it's no surprise that the magic keyboard doesn't have a physical Escape key there is no functional Keys there just simply wouldn't be space so what do you do if you have to use the Escape key such as inside of a full screen video well there is a couple different ways to get around it first off there is a hotkey such as command period and that will act as the escape key but you can also remap it to these other not really used keys on your keyboard how often you really use the globe the control or the option key on your iPad well you can go ahead and remap those to actually act as the escape key by heading into Settings General keyboard and hardware keyboard you can get to modifier keys here you can see that the caps lock control key option key command key and the globe key can all be set up to act as the escape key just go ahead and choose the button that you don't really use all that often and then choose the Escape key to remap it to it's very handy whether you're coding or just wouldn't be able to have an escape key around for things like exiting a full screen video is easy to do you're not gonna find yourself struggling without that function row regardless of how you were using the magic keyboard it is undeniably an impressive piece of hardware it is well built it is sturdy it looks incredible the keys are fantastic the trackpad is responsive and smooth just overall we love the magic keyboard and I hope that some of these tips and tricks are able to get even more out of this device for you and help you understand that higher price tag that goes along with it no one else is able to bake things into the OS at such a deep level as Apple is able to do giving it such a high bar above 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Length: 7min 59sec (479 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 24 2020