Daniel Hruska One of the less visible innovations introduced this year in iOS 7 is the ability to add custom keyboard shortcuts to third-party applications when using an external keyboard. Those of you who use OmniOutliner may have noticed that you can use the same keyboard shortcuts in the Mac version.
Currently, keyboard shortcuts are only supported in a handful of apps like Safari, Mail, Pages, or Numbers. There is no list of all keyboard shortcuts, so this article lists the ones that work in iOS 7.0.4. Apple and other developers are sure to add more over time.
Safari
- ⌘L opening an address (Similar to Mac, the address bar is selected for URL or search. However, the search results cannot be navigated using the arrows.)
- ⌘T opening a new panel
- ⌘W closing the current pamel
- ⌘R page reload
- ⌘. stop loading the page
- ⌘G a ⌘⇧G switching between search results on the page (However, starting a search on the page is displayed on the display.)
- ⌘[ a ⌘] navigation back and forward
Unfortunately, there is no shortcut for switching between panels yet.
- ⌘N creating a new email
- ⌘⇧D send mail (This shortcut also works in applications with implemented sharing via mail.)
- ⌦ deletion of marked mail
- ↑/↓ selecting an email address from the pop-up menu in the To, Cc and Bcc fields
iWork
Some of the shortcuts listed will probably work in Keynote, but I haven't had a chance to try them.
Pages
- ⌘⇧K insert a comment
- ⌘⌥K view comment
- ⌘⌥⇧K view previous comment
- ⌘I/B/U change of typeface – italic, bold and underlined
- ⌘D duplication of the marked object
- ↩ insert a new line
- ⌘↩ finishing editing and selecting the next cell in the table
- ⌥↩ selecting the next cell
- ⇥ move to the next cell
- ⇧⇥ move to the previous cell
- ⇧↩ select everything above the selected cell
- ⌥↑/↓/→/← creating a new row or column
- ⌘↑/↓/→/← navigate to the first/last cell in a row or column
Numbers
- ⌘⇧K insert a comment
- ⌘⌥K view comment
- ⌘⌥⇧K view previous comment
- ⌘I/B/U change of typeface – italic, bold and underlined
- ⌘D duplication of the marked object
- ↩ selecting the next cell
- ⌘↩ finishing editing and selecting the next cell in the table
- ⇥ move to the next cell
- ⇧⇥ move to the previous cell
- ⇧↩ select everything above the selected cell
- ⌥↑/↓/→/← creating a new row or column
- ⌘↑/↓/→/← navigate to the first/last cell in a row or column
Working with text
Text editing
- ⌘C copy
- ⌘V insert
- ⌘X take out
- ⌘Z return the action
- ⇧⌘Z repeat the action
- ⌘⌫ delete text to the beginning of the line
- ⌘K delete text to the end of the line
- ⌥⌫ delete the word before the cursor
Text selection
- ⇧↑/↓/→/← text selection up/down/right/left
- ⇧⌘↑ selection of text to the beginning of the document
- ⇧⌘↓ selection of text to the end of the document
- ⇧⌘→ selection of text to the beginning of the line
- ⇧⌘← selection of text to the end of the line
- ⇧⌥↑ selection of text up by lines
- ⇧⌥↓ selecting text down the lines
- ⇧⌥→ selecting the text to the right of the words
- ⇧⌥← selecting the text to the left of the words
Document navigation
- ⌘↑ to the beginning of the document
- ⌘↓ to the end of the document
- ⌘→ to the end of the line
- ⌘← to the beginning of the line
- ⌥↑ to the beginning of the previous line
- ⌥↓ to the end of the next line
- ⌥→ to the previous word
- ⌥← to the next word
Control
- ⌘␣ display all keyboards; the selection is made by repeatedly pressing the space bar
- F1 decrease the brightness
- F2 brightness increase
- F7 previous track
- F8 break
- F9 next track
- F10 muting sounds
- F11 volume down
- F12 volume boost
- (I.e. show/hide virtual keyboard
Is there a shortcut for home or multitasking?
Perfect work thank you it will help me a lot.
Thanks, we were just dealing with it on Saturday. Fits.
ctrl⇥ can be used to switch between panels
It doesn't work for me (Apple Wireless Keyboard).