Hi Nimit, You asked about the use of the "Fn" key in the bottom left corner of the Amazon Basics Bluetooth Keyboard. The "Fn" key is not used for anything under iOS. The keyboard layout of the Apple Wireless Keyboard and the Amazon Basics BT Keyboard is the same as on a Mac laptop. On a Mac, the Fn key is used in combination with other keys to duplicate the functions of keys that are present on the extended keyboard for desktop computers, but that are not present on the laptop keyboard. Some examples are:
Fn+Left Arrow "Home" Fn+Right Arrow "End" Fn+Up Arrow "Page Up" Fn+Down Arrow "Page Down" Fn+Delete "Forward Delete" (character) Fn+Option+Delete "Forward Delete" (word) Fn+Return "Enter" On older Mac laptops, the Fn key pressed together with keys on the right side of the keyboard was an alternate way to access the embedded numeric keypad in place of toggling on the NumLock key in the top row of function keys. On current laptop and extended Mac keyboards, the Fn key used in Mac OS X switches the keypress action of the top row of function keys between hardware and software functions. Media player controls for play/pause, forward, reverse, and sound volume adjustment are examples of hardware functions shared between the Mac OS X and iOS. Other hardware function keys control screen brightness. Software functions of the top row of function keys for VoiceOver users include things like routing cursors, control of cursor tracking, selecting windows, etc. If the "Fn" key were enabled under iOS, an obvious use would be to delete characters or words aftern the insertion point in editing. But under iOS, instead of Fn+delete, I press Shift+Right Arrow, and then press the "delete" key. And instead of Fn+Option+delete, I press Shift +Option+Right Arrow, and then press the "delete" key. The iPad Keyboard Dock for the first generation iPad has a bottom row of keys that is identical to the bottom row of the Apple Wireless Keyboard except for the fact that it lacks an "Fn" key. HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
