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fingers on your keyboard when it appears. Your iPad’s keys will disappear, and you’ll be able to navigate any chunk of text by sliding your fingers. Using this method also makes it easier to select text with your keyboard. Just tap twice with two fingers and immediately hold. You should see the iPad highlights one word from the text. You can slide to the left or right to keep selecting more text. 2. Use Key Flicks to Type Faster Key Flicks is an underrated iPad feature. If you want to save time typing on the iPad, you need to master it. To use Key Flicks on iPad, all you have to do is drag any key down on your keyboard and then release it. You’ll see that the “second key” from your keyboard immediately appears. The iPad’s Key Flicks are enabled by default, but if you want to make sure you haven’t disabled it, or in case you want to, here’s what you need to do: 1. Open the Settings app on your iPad. 2. Go to General. 3. Tap on Keyboard. 4. Make sure Enable Key Flicks is turned on. 1. Undo and Redo with Three Fingers If you’re used to typing each day, one of your favorite keyboard shortcuts might be Command + Z or Control + Z. Unfortunately, the iPad’s keyboard doesn’t have a Command key, although that would be a game-changer. Instead, you need to use a different way to Undo or Redo a misspelled word. The good news is that it isn’t hard at all, and there are different ways to do it. If you want to undo something you just typed, instead of deleting it, you can simply place three fingers on the iPad’s display (it doesn’t have to be on the keyboard itself), and swipe to the left. This will undo your most recent text. Pro Tip: There’s another way to undo what you just wrote. All you need to do is shake your iPad, and a pop-up message will appear asking if you want to undo the last thing you wrote. Now, if you want to redo something you just undo, you can use the same trick, only instead you have to do it the other way. That is, to redo, all you need to do is place three fingers on your iPad’s screen and then swipe to the right. A small message will appear at the top saying “Redo” or tell you that there’s nothing to redo at the time.