Keyboard shortcuts

Menu commands show their shortcut beside them, so the menu bar is always the authority. This is the same list in one place.

These work on iPad too, with a hardware keyboard — iPadOS shows the same menu bar as macOS, and both platforms drive one set of commands rather than two. There is no iPad-only exception list: every command below is wired on both, including ⌥⌘N New Window, Close Tab, Open in New Window, Open Collection, the command palette (⇧⌘P) and Graph (⇧⌘G). Two commands are simply named for the file manager they open — “Reveal in Finder” on macOS reads “Reveal in Files” on iPad — and a canvas that opens in its own window on a wide screen opens as a sheet on a narrow one, which is a question about width rather than about the device.

Notes & files

Editing

Windows & views

System-wide

Inside particular windows

While a suggestion is showing

These need Suggest as I type switched on. The first three act on suggestion text that is already visible and do nothing when none is — so Esc still belongs to whatever else is open. ⌥Esc and F5 are the opposite: they ask for a suggestion when none is showing.

Standard macOS shortcuts

Because the editor is a native text view, every system text shortcut works as it does elsewhere on macOS — ⌘Z undo, ⇧⌘Z redo, ⌥←/⌥→ by word, ⌘↑/⌘↓ to the start or end of the document, and the full set of Emacs-style control bindings.

Writing Tools, dictation, Emoji & Symbols and the system spell checker are all available from the Edit menu.