This post is from 2012, about 14 years ago. Some of it may be out of date.

▸ Phantom Buttons on the iPad's Split Keyboard

1 min readApple, Design

Jake Marsh

Yet another example of details that 99.9% of users would never notice but use constantly.

The iPad’s split keyboard has phantom buttons. If you’re used to typing Y with your left hand, you can.

To enable this keyboard, tap-hold on the “toggle keyboard” button in the lower right to get a menu, or tap-hold on it and drag upwards. Reverse that to reunite the two halves back to normal at the bottom.

iPad split keyboard with the hidden phantom keys circled in red on each half

I love discovering little tid bits like this. Apple (among others) manage to sprinkle them in the strangest and most obvious places.

Link: ios.finerthingsin.com/post/16982049392/ipad-keyboard-phantom-buttons