Splitting the iPad’s Keyboard

In this video, we’re going to look at our split keyboard we have available to us on the iPad. Let’s go to my iPad.

Let’s open up my Notes app. I have my full size keyboard here. Well, what we’re able to do is split this in half. We can place half of it on the left side of our iPad, a smaller version of the keyboard, on the left side. And then we also can have the other half on the right side. So then, while we’re able to do is just hold our iPad with our two hands and use our thumbs to type as an example. So how do we do that?

Well, all we need to do is just go down to her keyboard button here, and if I long press or tap and hold on it, you’re going to see we have Split. We do not want to just press on this button here. If we just press on it, what it’s going to do is hide it. That’s not what we want to do. We want to split it. So now I just slide my finger until we get to split. I let go and watch what happens to this keyboard. It splits it in half. I have half of it over on the left side and half of it over on the right side. So now what I’m able to do is hold my iPad with two hands and type with my thumbs as an example.

We can move these keyboards up and down. They do move together. We can’t move them separately, but we can move them up. To do that, we just go to our keyboard button here. We do not long press on it. We do not just tap on it. What we have to do is just tap and drag it up in one motion. So I tap and drag it up and now we can see we can move our keyboard here. And again, it does move both of them at the same time.

How do we bring it back to our full-size keyboard? All we have to do is just drag this back down to the bottom of our iPad. So let’s go ahead and do that. I just drag this down and were back at our full-size keyboard.

So that’s how we can split our keyboard on the iPad. When our keyboard is showing, we just long press on the keyboard button in the lower right hand corner, and then select Split. From there, it’s going to split the keyboard in half. We’re going to have half of it on the left side of our iPad, half of it on the right. We can move the keyboard up and down by just dragging the keyboard button, in the lower right-hand corner of our keyboard of our split keyboard, dragging that up and down. We just do it in one motion, tap and drag. If we want to bring it back to our full-size keyboard, we just drag it down to the bottom of our iPad.

So that’s how we use a split keyboard on the iPad.