But both are a lot more expensive than the $4.99 Type2Phone. Simply put, once you pair the Type2Phone app with your device via Bluetooth, Type2Phone lets you use your Mac’s existing keyboard to type on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV (a second- or third-generation model, with version 5.2 of the software from January 2013), just like any normal Bluetooth keyboard, optionally showing the keys in the Type2Phone window as you press them (there’s even a silly “flying key” animation). ![]() All sorts of standard Command-key shortcuts that have iOS equivalents, like Command-C and Command-V for copy and paste and Command-Z for undo, work fine when invoked through Type2Phone.On its own, this capability is quite interesting, but Type2Phone extends it in even more interesting ways: This works regardless of what type of keyboard is attached to your Mac I’m currently using it with my MacBook Air’s built-in keyboard and with a USB-based Das Keyboard there’s something particularly satisfying about replacing the iPhone’s virtual keyboard with a seriously tactile keyboard. You can also hold down Shift and use the arrow keys to select text. Pierre Bernard of Houdah Software said he’d look into adding built-in support for that trick in a future version.) (Alas, iOS doesn’t support forward delete, but using Keyboard Maestro to remap the Forward Delete key in Type2Phone to the combination of Right Arrow and Backspace solved that problem.
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