How to turn off shortcuts cheat sheet / commands menu after long press on Command or Global key

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How to turn off shortcuts cheat sheet / commands menu after long press on Command or Global key

Hello, I was not able to find a solution to this problem. I am using iPad Pro and iPadOS 15.4 right now, but it's a problem on a lot of iPadOS versions.

If you hold down command key on iPad for maybe 2 or 3 seconds menu with shortcuts or commands or cheat sheet of "usable" actions that are available to you will pop up and block a lot of screen space.

Is it possible to turn off this functionality? There is also a shortcut Global key + M to show this menu so if I really want to use that kind of "help" I would use that shortcut. It's really annoying when you are in an app where you need to hold a command key and scroll with your mouse or something and this popup will appear and you don't see anything on screen and are stuck with the unwanted menu that will not even disappear on it's own when you stop holding the key.

Please help me with this. It's so annoying and I am not able to find anything about this menu/cheatsheet/commands/actions on the youtube reddit apple support google. Anywhere.

I really love shortcuts on any device, but I shortcuts should not popup if you know them already and don't really need them. It's really user unfriendly for me.

Thanks

iPad Pro, iPadOS 15

Posted on May 20, 2022 6:01 AM

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Answer 1

Miche11e_P

Community Specialist

May 21, 2022 1:04 PM in response to sublimenonsense

Hi sublimenonsense,

Thanks for contacting Apple Support Communities!

We understand that you'd like to edit the keyboard settings on your iPad.

Although we don't have the option to remove the features of the Keyboard settings, you can edit them as outlined here: Add or change keyboards on iPad - Apple Support

Feel free to share any feature requests you have with Apple directly here: Product Feedback - Apple

Take care!

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Answer 2

May 22, 2022 1:57 AM in response to Miche11e_P

Thank you Miche11e_P,

I used the product feedback form and sent a feature request for future versions.

I was just hoping that this is too specific shortcut for iPad that could be turned off when I see that keyboard shortcut access can change some shortcuts. I am totally happy with other shortcuts just this one is preventing me from using iPad to it’s full potential.

Minor change to major product improvement.

We will see if that feature will be available anytime soon. I know that it could take a long time to approve something like this in Apple.

So my problem is not solved but at least someone knows about it.

I wonder if app developers cound maybe prevent this shortcut from happening, but who knows.

Thanks again. I will keep this open because maybe someone else will come up with something eventually.

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How to turn off shortcuts cheat sheet / commands menu after long press on Command or Global key

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