Get Physical and Virtual
- Logitech’s $100 Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard is a step up from Apple’s Wireless keyboard in that it can pair with three devices: your iPad, your iPhone, and your Mac. Just push a button to.
- General steps to pair an Apple keyboard to an iPad: Turn off the Apple keyboard by pressing the power button for three seconds. Ensure bluetooth is enabled on the iPad/iOS device you wish to connect: Settings Bluetooth. On the Apple bluetooth keyboard, press and hold the power button. After about 5 seconds the keyboard power indicator (LED.
Apple’s own Smart Keyboard is $169, but it’s probably the closest you’ll get to native keyboard support if you have an iPad Pro. If you don’t have an iPad Pro, or you just want something a little cheaper, you can get some keyboard cases for a decent price, like Zagg’s Slim Book ($55) and Anker’s Folio ($33), to name a couple.
Don’t like typing on the iPad’s virtual (soft) keyboard or just prefer a true keyboard? The Apple Wireless Keyboard works well with the iPad, as do many other Bluetooth keyboards. When you have a Bluetooth keyboard connected to your iPad, the virtual keyboard won’t appear. This makes sense. Like any other set of Bluetooth devices, you pair the keyboard and the iPad so they recognize one another. Having both the virtual and hardware keyboard working simultaneously could be confusing for you and your iPad. What if, for some reason, you temporarily want that virtual keyboard back while using the Apple Wireless Keyboard? Don’t disconnect Bluetooth. Just tap the eject key (upper right corner) on Apple’s physical keyboard.
The virtual one will reappear. When you’re finished, tap the eject key again to put the soft keyboard away and you’re back on the Bluetooth one. Want to mystify your friends or impress the coffee shop crowd? You can type on both keyboards at the same time, one for the left hand and one for the right.
Remember to turn off the Bluetooth keyboard or disable Bluetooth when you’ve finished. Otherwise, you may wonder where the soft keyboard of the iPad went, as your iPad gives undivided attention to that live Bluetooth keyboard sitting on the shelf. On the Apple aluminum keyboard, hold the On/Off Button for at least three seconds to turn it off.
Excerpt from my eBook iPad Academy: Tips, Tricks and Clever Techniques
Connecting a wireless bluetooth keyboard from your iMac to your iPad is easy.
Can I Use An Apple Wireless Keyboard With Ipad 2020 Pro
Though I love the convenience of the iPad’s virtual keyboard, I prefer a physical keyboard when I have a lot of writing to do and don’t want to be tied to my office iMac.
Sure, the easy solution is the iPad dock. But, hey, I already had one wireless keyboard so why buy another? (Yes, Apple, I know there are many reasons to buy another device.) Besides, I liked the challenge of creating a solution from within my existing complement of Apple gear.
How to connect your iMac wireless keyboard to your iPad:
- Remove the keyboard from bluetooth range of your iMac
- Turn it OFF using the keyboard power button
- Set the keyboard near your iPad
- Turn ON keyboard. Flashing (tiny!) green light near top right corner of keyboard indicates ON
- Select “GENERAL” settings on iPad
- Select Bluetooth > On
- iPad will search for devices
- If iPad does not locate the keyboard (or endlessly searches with no success) try this iPad Voodoo: Turn keyboard off, wait 10 seconds, turn it back on.
- iPad recognizes the keyboard and will want to “pair”
- iPad then gives you a unique code to enter
- Enter the code and you’re set!
Now that I’ve created this, and several other blog posts, using my wireless keyboard I’ve met my self-imposed challenge.
Iphone apple store download. I also discovered an unintended consequence; ability to use features of both the physical keyboard and the iPad touchscreen simultaneously.
Pair Apple Wireless Keyboard Ipad
How about you? E-mail me if you’ve tried it and what you discovered.