#APPLE IPAD KEYBOARD WITH TRACKPAD PRO#
#APPLE IPAD KEYBOARD WITH TRACKPAD PC#

#APPLE IPAD KEYBOARD WITH TRACKPAD PRO#

It's got the touchpad we've wanted, a sturdy display hinge and a solid typing experience.As a long-time iPad user who has been exploring other options over the past 12 to 24 months (including the Surface Pro X, the Galaxy Tab S5e and the Galaxy Book S), the unveiling of the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard accessory got me excited about the iPad again. iPad Pro Magic Keyboard: VerdictĪs I finished typing this iPad Pro Magic Keyboard review, I found the Magic Keyboard as a welcome addition to the iPad Pro life. That’s just not the way it is in any desktop-caliber app, as your cursor defaults to the text you’re editing.

While Notes and Word recognized that I was in the body previously, Docs made me click into the document each time, even if my cursor was blinking on screen. While I know Google and Apple have beef, Google should get its act together for the sake of people forced to use GDocs by their employers.Īlso, moving between all of these apps, I noticed far too often that I had to click in the body of a document before my typing cursor was actually in the document I was editing - which got annoying fast. Docs often moves your selection up when you’re clicking down, and so on and so forth. Also, try selecting text by holding shift and moving the arrow keys. That’s been supported by third-party apps since Apple first added keyboard support. Google Docs, though, is the biggest problem child: it doesn’t even show keyboard shortcuts when you hold the Command button. Of course, Apple’s own apps are optimized for the Magic Keyboard, as they were for the Smart Keyboard Cover, but have other major word processors caught up? Well, Word and Google Docs both haven’t optimized for Apple’s smarter cursor, that snaps to objects and adjusts from a dot to a cursor when you move to a text field. iPad Pro Magic Keyboard: App compatibility When everything can be done through the keyboard and touchpad - simply tapping on typos with the touchpad and then tapping on the suggested correction - writing and other productivity tasks feel more effortless. Sure, I could just lift my fingers off the keyboard and nudge it up myself and then tap the screen to pick an app, but that’s just taking away from the potential power of the touchpad. As it stands now, you have to do the slightly backwards method of hitting Command+Space and searching in Spotlight, and then clicking and dragging an app to either side of the screen. This would make it a lot easier to split my screen between two apps. I’m hoping Apple finds a way to implement a touchpad gesture for opening the dock on the bottom of the screen.

Lastly, the three fingers horizontal swiping to move between open apps is one of those finally adjustments. Also, the three-finger swipe-up gesture is a neat way to either go to the home screen if you flick those fingers up, or to see the different app work spaces if you move your fingers more slowly. Sure, I could just lift my fingers off the keyboard and nudge it up myself and then tap the screen to pick an app, but that’s just taking away from the potential power of the touchpad.Īs I swiped two fingers up and down the touchpad, I saw that Apple, again, is delivering super-smooth scrolling. Yes, there’s no fake feedback using haptics here. Oh, and I need to say ‘click’ one more time, as the Magic Keyboard touchpad gives you something that Apple’s MacBook touchpad don’t: a real click.

#APPLE IPAD KEYBOARD WITH TRACKPAD PC#

Sure, it’s a little on the small side, but as someone who’s tested a bunch of PC laptops, I’m completely positive about Apple’s implementation, as it’s all clickable, rather than just the bottom half that some see-saw touchpads let you click. The Magic Keyboard’s biggest feature is the 3.9 x 1.8-inch touchpad that answers the prayers of many who want Apple to make the iPad more like a laptop. Yes, this keyboard deck is so slight that even though my hands aren’t extremely large, my wrists come nowhere close to the deck of the keyboard. The soft deck of the Magic Keyboard felt good against my palms as I typed. The iPad Pro Magic Keyboard illuminates in the dark (Image credit: Future)

Apple ipad keyboard with trackpad