Ever tried typing on your iPad’s keyboard with your thumbs while holding the iPad in your hands? Talk about awkward.Well, there’s an easy way to make the iPad’s keyboard a lot more thumb-friendly: by splitting it in two.
A simple gesture is all it takes, provided you’ve got a key (no pun intended) setting enabled.
Here’s how…
- Tap Settings, then tap General, scroll down the page a bit, and then tap Keyboard. Scroll down to the “Split Keyboard” setting and make sure it’s set to “On.”
- Press the Home key, then pull up the iPad keyboard in any app you wish (such as, say, Safari).
- Now, tap and hold the keyboard with two fingers—one on each side of the keyboard—and spread your fingertips apart. As you do, the keyboard will split in half.
- Want to make the keyboard whole again? Just tap and hold each half of the keyboard with two fingers and push them back together.