iPad Tips & Lessons
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Classes on using the iPad4 Lessons
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New in iPadOS 172 Lessons
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New in iPadOS 169 Lessons
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All New Weather App on the iPad
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Apple Introduces Smarter Dictation on the iPad with iPadOS 16
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How to Create a Shared Library in Photos on the iPad
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How to use Multi-stop Routing and Scheduled Times in the Maps app on the iPad
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What's new in Contacts with iPadOS 16
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View and Copy Wi-Fi Passwords and Delete Known Networks on your iPad
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My Favorite New Features in Notes with iPadOS 16
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My 4 Favorite New Features in Reminders with iPadOS 16
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Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPad
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All New Weather App on the iPad
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Getting Started with the iPad18 Lessons
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Sleep/Wake/On/Off, Volume, and Side Switch on the iPad
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Arranging and Organizing Apps on the iPad
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Home Button Features on the iPad
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Access All Your Apps from the iPad's App Library
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Searching your iPad
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4 Ways to Find and Delete an App on the iPad and iPhone
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Add Folders to your Home Screen on the iPad
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Use large Icons on the iPad's Home Screen
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Using Siri on the iPad
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Subscriptions and Purchase Location in the App Store
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Take and Mark Up Screenshots on the iPad
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Working with the iPad's Dock
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Notifications and the Notification Center on the iPad
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Switching between Open Apps
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How to Rename your iPad
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View iPad Storage
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Make the iPad easier to Read
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Background Sounds on the iPad with iPadOS 17 or older
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Sleep/Wake/On/Off, Volume, and Side Switch on the iPad
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iPad Basics27 Lessons
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Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo with iPadOS
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Delete and Offload Apps on the iPad
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Sharing from within Apps on the iPad
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Hide thumbnails when reading a PDF on an iPad
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Magnify the iPad screen with Display Zoom
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Select which App to open a Document With on the iPad
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Prevent In-App Ratings & Review Popups on the iPad
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Quickly Scroll to the Top of an App on the iPad
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Moving the Cursor with iPadOS
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New Compact Siri on the iPad
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New Pulldown Menu Enhancement on the iPad
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New Sidebar Enhancement on the iPad
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Using your Mac as a Second Display with Sidecar
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A Look at the Find My App on the iPad
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Using the iPad's Scrollbar
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Controlling the Cursor on the iPad
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Access the Today View on the iPad
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Exporting Documents as PDF on iPad: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Compress Images in Seconds on the iPad!
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Remove Downloads or Delete Files? How to Manage Your iPad Storage
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Managing subscriptions on iPad
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How to Zip and Unzip Files on the iPad
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Find out what's changed in your Favorite iPad Apps!
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Combine and Compress files on the iPad
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Finding text on web pages made easy in Safari on the iPad!
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App Privacy Report: Manage your Privacy on the iPad
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Discover How to Optimize Your iPad's Storage
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Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo with iPadOS
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Home Screen Basics18 Lessons
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Accessing the New Today View on the iPad
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Edit the Today View on the iPad
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Edit Widgets in the Today View on the iPad
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Creating Widget Stacks on the iPad
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Smart Rotate and Smart Stacks for Widgets on the iPad
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Select and Move Multiple Apps on the iPad
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View All your iPad Apps in the App Library
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Rearrange and Hide Home Screens on the iPad
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Add Widgets to the iPad's Home Screens
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Remove Apps from the iPad's Home Screen
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Shortcuts for Editing your Home Screen on the iPad
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Set Where New Apps are Download to on the iPad
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Delete Apps from your iPad through the App Store
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Save a Website to your iPad's Home Screen
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Access Your Favorite Websites with Just a Tap on Your iPad
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Find your Lost Apps on the iPad
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Apple Passwords App for the iPad? A Step-by-Step Guide
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9 Tips for Working with Apps on the iPad
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Accessing the New Today View on the iPad
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Keyboard and Dock Lessons for the iPad9 Lessons
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Keyboard Options for the iPad
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Hide Recent Apps in the Dock on the iPad
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Typing with QuickPath using the iPad's Floating Keyboard
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Enable Caps Lock and lock the Shift Key on the iPad
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Undock the Keyboard
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Float the iPad's Keyboard
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Splitting the iPad's Keyboard
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Add an Escape Key to the iPad's Smart Keyboard
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Discover the Power of Text Replacement on iPad
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Keyboard Options for the iPad
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Notifications and Control Center Lessons for the iPad7 Lessons
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Multitasking on the iPad5 Lessons
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iPad Settings10 Lessons
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Dynamically Position the iPad’s Volume Buttons
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Privacy Options with iPadOS
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Set Dark Appearance on the iPad
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Privacy Settings on the iPad
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Passcode Options on the iPad
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Do Not Disturb Options and Settings on the iPad
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iCloud Settings on the iPad
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iPad Settings and Searching the Settings App
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Search the Settings App on the iPad
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How to Extend Your Mac Display to Your iPad
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Dynamically Position the iPad’s Volume Buttons
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Accessibility Options for the iPad6 Lessons
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Require Attention for Face ID on the iPad
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Use VoiceOver to Speak Items on the iPad
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Set Display & Text Size for All Apps on the iPad
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Change Settings for Specific App with Per-App Settings on the iPad
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Set the Text Size for Individual Apps on the iPad
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Use your iPhone to control your iPad effortlessly from anywhere in the Room
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Require Attention for Face ID on the iPad
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Lessons for Older Versions of iPadOS4 Lessons
Float the iPad’s Keyboard
Learn how to float the iPad’s keyboard and use slide-to-type to type on the iPad.
Did you know you could float the keyboard on the iPad? When you float it, you can also use slide-to-type to type on the iPad. With slide-to-type you just slide your finger across the keyboard to type. See how to float the iPad’s keyboard and use slide-to-type on the iPad in this video on floating the keyboard.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
In this video, we’re going to see how we can make our keyboard float. We can basically miniaturize our keyboard and float it around or move it around anywhere we want on our iPad. Let’s see how we do it. Let’s go to my iPad.
Let’s open up my Notes app. I’m going to start typing in here. When we do that, our keyboard pops up. Now, what I would like to do is make this keyboard a little smaller. I’d like to float it above everything. How do we do that? Well, all we need to do is just go down to the lower right-hand corner, where we have our keyboard button here, and we long press on it or tap and hold. We do not want to just tap on it. If we just tap on it, it’s going to hide the keyboard. That’s not what we want to do, but when I tap and hold on it or long press on it, we have a few options. One of them being Floating. So now I just slide my finger up until it turns blue. I let go and watch what happens to this keyboard, it’s going to become smaller here and we can move this around.
All I have to do is just take this little horizontal line and I drag it where I want. So let’s go ahead and move this around. And we can see, we can move it around. So now I can just start typing on here.
Now you’ll notice that this keyboard is a little bit small. Well, you can use slide to type this is available on the iPhone, or we can also do it with this floating keyboard. So I’m going to type in here floating keyboard. I’m going to use slide to type. All I have to do is just slide my finger over the different letters. And we can see we have floating here. Let’s go ahead and slide for keyboard. I’m just sliding my finger over the keyboard, over the different letters. I never lifted it. And now we have our keyboard here. So we can use slide to type when we have this floating keyboard.
Now, how do we get a back to our standard keyboard? I want to bring it back to its full size. How do we do that? Well, all we have to do is just drag this down to the bottom of our iPad. So I just take this horizontal line and I drag it down. And when I drag it down to the bottom, and now we have our full size keyboard again.
So that’s how we can use a floating keyboard on the iPad. All we have to do is just go to the keyboard button in the lower right hand corner. I long press on and then select floating. When we do that, we get a smaller version of our keyboard. We’re able to use slide to type. And if I want to go back to my full-size keyboard or just drag it down to the bottom of the iPad. And it brings us back to our full-size keyboard.
So that’s our floating keyboard we have available to us on the iPad.