{"id":1188,"date":"2024-06-20T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:27:51","slug":"ipad-power-user-tip-hide-the-floating-keyboard-row-so-it-wont-hide-your-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/ipad-power-user-tip-hide-the-floating-keyboard-row-so-it-wont-hide-your-content\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad power user tip: Hide the floating keyboard row so it won\u2019t hide your content"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ipados-shortcut-bar.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>When using an iPad with an <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/05\/15\/new-magic-keyboard-surprisingly-compelling-reason-to-upgrade\/\">external keyboard attached<\/a>, iPadOS places a floating keyboard row at the bottom of your screen. Apple calls this the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/ipad\/use-shortcuts-ipaddf61a0c2\/17.0\/ipados\/17.0\">Shortcuts bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the Shortcuts bar is that it often gets in the way of other important content on screen\u2014especially when multitasking in multiple apps.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you can hide the Shortcuts bar and improve your iPad experience.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"ipad-pro,tips-and-tricks\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"955142\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/20\/ipad-power-user-tip-hide-the-floating-keyboard-row-so-it-wont-hide-your-content\/#more-955142\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using an iPad with an external keyboard attached, iPadOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipad-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}