I use an iPad Pro 13-inch a lot, with an external keyboard. And I just realised that I’d love it if I could use a macro app for simple tasks, like simply selecting apps. But gooooogling around I have not yet found any way to do that. (I had an old setup from the nineties I used for many years; F1 for browser, F2 for email, etc.) Does anybody know if it can be done? (Perhaps not enough people habitually use an external keyboard with iOS for it to have happened.)
There are apps like Workflow and Launch Centre Pro that can set other apps and sequences of apps in motion with preset ‘paths’ as it were but nothing that I know would be a hit F1 to launch Safari say.
Just to say it, within apps and depending on the app, keyboard shortcuts on iOS can be great. And Cmd+Tab will switch etc. Holding down the Cmd key reveals what’s possible, some apps have multiple windows of keyboard shortcuts.
Thanks, Tommy, I hadn’t realised about Cmd-tab, that’s neat.
And I’d found out about holding the command key, that is very useful in Mail and Safari (like for recovering a tab you closed by mistake!). But I’d not thought to look in other apps.
Indeed we have all had a rocky relationship with Siri.
I do believe voice is the next interface and I hope Apple get it together on that front, it has to be global. Most Danes I know are quite precise in their speech, or maybe it just seems that way
I am always baffled at how diction on iOS is better than Siri. If you tap the microphone icon on the onscreen keyboard it does a quick and better job. Then sometimes, after getting it right, it ‘corrects’ itself and it’s wrong.
