Use a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad
You don’t have to use Apple’s iPad keyboard dock, if you already own a Bluetooth keyboard chances are it’ll be compatible with the iPad. All you need to do is pair the device to the iPad and adjust a setting.
How to setup the iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard:
* Put the keyboard into pairing mode
* On the iPad, tap on Settings > General > Bluetooth
* Find the keyboards entry and tap on it
* The iPad will present a popup notification with a pairing code, type this into the keyboard
* Now you can use your Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad
If the keyboard is not listed, check to be sure that the keyboards batteries are adequately charged and that it is in pairing mode. The other possibility is that the Bluetooth keyboard doesn’t fit the ‘Bluetooth Human Interface Device Profile’, but most Bluetooth keyboards do so the chance of you running into one that doesn’t is relatively slim.
The great thing about this feature is that you can use almost any existing bluetooth keyboard with the iPad and you’ll be completely wireless. Plus you get the benefit of being able to rotate the iPad to horizontal mode and still use an external keyboard, something you can’t do with Apple’s iPad keyboard dock.
With this in mind, it makes a lot more sense to get the Apple Wireless Keyboard
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