Request for an arrow key app for ipad

Arrow keys would be awesome. Honestly I don't understand why they were left out. If a little android phone has room for them then surely the iPad does.

I personally dissagree with doing this, but if you jailbreak your iPad I am CERTAIN that there is a hack on Cydia for some form of arrow keys.

However, another option is to shop around for a cheap bluetooth keyboard that has arrow keys. I would do that personally.

If I was going to jail break it I wouldn't have bought an I pad, instead the motorola or something, and if I wanted a separate keyboard I would have bought a laptop, but I didn't I bought an iPad, and now like most people I know that have iPads, I would like to have the option of arrow keys, like the people above, we have all researched the options and possibilities... But an app, like the emoji style app with an arrow key option would make life simple...

Amazing! It’s a year later, many great new features have been introduced, and something as simple as porting a simple, standard feature found on every keyboard has been overlooked. I guess we have to be more vocal. Could everyone contacting Apple support for any reason PLEASE also mention that we need arrow keys on the soft keyboard!

Thank You.

Yeah, this must be some sort of sick Apple joke. I just bought a couple of iPads and I am stunned they don't have arrow keys. That and a 'back' button would be great.

This is the result of pure stubbornness by Steve Jobs who is so proud of having to have been part of eliminating the need for arrow keys (with the introduction of the mouse) that he won't let the iPad have arrow keys. Well, Mr. Jobs, the iPad doesnt HAVE a mouse and the loupe gets to be a real pain when correcting text longer than a tweet. And, yes, some of us to actually write more than eight word sentences at a go. Please add arrow key software!

Not only do we need arrow keys but the move the insertion point gestures don't seem to work in pages.

Probably the primary reason that you don't see something like this is because Apple prevents developers from customizing the keyboard. I found this thread because I am an iPhone/iPad developer and I'm looking for information on how to customize the keyboard for a data entry app that I'm working on. From my research, it sounds like there are hacked ways to customize the keyboard to some degree, but it is not easily supported for developers, and they can reject your app for a customized keyboard. Apple is very stubborn about their user interface choices, and it sometimes results in a poor user experience with some of their software.

Thanks for your reply. Maybe Tim Cook will be more open to giving customers what they want and need. It's amazing that getting a fully-functional keyboard is so hard! I guess our best chance is for everyone to use a "Feedback" page to submit our request.