How to remap caps-lock and control keys on the wireless keyboard when used with the iPad?

I dislike the position of the control key and finds the caps-lock key mostly useless, so the first thing I do with any keyboard on the Mac is to swap the meaning of these keys in the
OSX keyboard prefererences' modifier keys panel.

Is there a way to do the same on the iPad?
Not being able to so is pretty much a showstopper for me.

• Asked by Vuichiap L from Menlo Park
• Jul 12, 2010
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Does the wireless keyboard have num lock?

I want a wireless keyboard for my iMac that has a num lock key and number pad-like functionality like on my Macbook Pro. I don't see a num lock on the wireless keyboard. Is there some hidden way to enable such a feature?

• Asked by Jim D from Calgary
• May 11, 2010
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keying accents on a spanish keyboard.

What is the most effective way to type a letter with an accent above it on an Apple wireless Spanish Keyboard? Can fuction keys be used too?

• Asked by Roy H from Victoria
• Sep 9, 2012
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If I have both a Mac and an iPad, how does the wireless keyboard know which I want it to control?

• Asked by William M from Del Mar
• Apr 20, 2010
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Apple Bluetooth keyboard---special function keys for iPad 3?

I have seen a good answer to a question about getting a list of function keys for the Apple Bluetooth keyboard---but it seems to address only using the keyboard with a Mac (laptop). Is there a list of special function keys that work with an iPad 3? I am particularly interested in which special function keys (if any) there are that work with an iPad 3 that one could not find on a non-Apple keyboard (such as a Motorola wireless keyboard, that works fine with entering text such as letters, numbers, and symbols). In other words what---in terms of function or navigation keys---makes the Apple Bluetooth keyboard better than other Bluetooth keyboards?

• Asked by James B from Olympia
• Jul 9, 2012
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does the wireless keyboard have volume up & down keys

• Asked by Christy B from Fort Collins
• Mar 21, 2010
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Can the Apple Wireless Keyboard control iPad music and video playback?

Play, pause, FF, rewind?
Volume when not docked?
Song and video selection?

• Asked by Stephen C M from Raleigh
• Dec 27, 2010
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Are Apple keyboards, with only a delete key, less efficient in making deletions than conventional keyboards with both a backspace and a delete key?

I have been using a Windows desktop at home and my office. Although I have never had a laptop, I have been planning to buy an Apple laptop for use when I travel. However, I recently used an Apple and found its keyboard, in one particular way, to be inferior to the standard keyboards that I have been accustomed to using. Do you agree?

A conventional keyboard has two keys to make deletions. The backspace key deletes characters to the left of the cursor. The delete key deletes characters to the right of the cursor. In contrast, the Apple keyboard has only one key to make deletions. It is the delete key and it deletes characters to the left of the cursor. It appears that if I want to delete characters to the right of the cursor, there is no way to do that directly and simply. Am I correct about that? I must either use a second key or I must first highlight the text and then delete it.

Using a non-Apple conventional keyboard, it is also possible to delete an entire word and one adjacent space in only two strokes by using a combination of the control key and the delete key. The same can be done in the other direction using the control key and the backspace key. How would these two types of deletion most efficiently be done with an Apple keyboard?

The reality seems to be that two keys to delete can operate more efficiently, in more directions, than only one (Apple). Do you agree that the Apple keyboard is less efficient in making deletions than the conventional keyboard when using Word software? What is the best way to get around that inefficiency in a MacBookPro? If there is no way around it, should this discourage me from getting an Apple since I do lots of word processing and deletions?

Does the Apple keyboard have any advantages over the conventional keyboard that I should be aware of?

• Asked by Robert J from Granger
• Feb 29, 2012
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Is the iPad keyboard dock itself wireless or Does it need to be plugged into the mains during use?

I am considering using it during lectures and so was wondering if it needed to be connected

• Asked by Kristian Z
• Oct 22, 2011
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can i use the wireless keyboard in iPad?

• Asked by Liezel C
• Mar 13, 2013
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