

To do this, tap the “Caps Lock Key” option and pick the “Escape” option. The most common recommendation is to remap the Caps Lock key to act like an Escape key. Once you make it to this screen in Settings, you’ll see the ability to customize five different keys: Caps Lock, Control, Option, Command, and Globe. If the CMD + period solution is a bit too cumbersome for you, iPadOS allows you to remap physical hardware keys to have the same functionality as an ESC key would. This has actually been a keyboard command on the Mac for years, but I had no idea it existed, nor did I know it also worked for the iPad.

That simply means that anywhere you would use an Escape key, such as exiting a full-screen video, you can hit ⌘. I was actually unaware of this key combination until I read Federico Viticci’s piece on MacStories about his early impressions of the new Magic Keyboard.Īs it turns out, there is system-wide support for replicating the ESC key’s functionality by using the Command + period key combination. There’s no Escape key on the iPad Pro’s Magic Keyboard, but there’s a built-in key combination to replicate the Escape functionality. Thankfully, there are two easy ways to replicate this functionality.

One complaint from users, however, is the lack of a physical Escape key. The new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro packs quite a few features, including backlighting and a built-in trackpad.
