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Q: Bluetooth support added to iOS Keynote

I just discovered that iOS Keynote now supports standard Bluetooth keyboards in order to advance slide shows - pressing the cursor forward/back key makes the slideshow move forward/back.

 

This lack of this feature was the most frustrating thing about iOS Keynote (the whole Keynote Remote nonsense was too much and the Satechi device using the accessibility workaround stopped working with iOS 8).

 

Congratulations to Apple for adding this basic and necessary feature. It's so simple so why did it take so long to add it?

 

Question is: when exactly was this feature added? I can't find anything in a changelog to say that it has been added and if I hadn't randomly - out of perverse curiosity - tried to see if it worked, I would be none the wiser.

 

I wonder how many other people don't realise that Keynote now supports Bluetooth keyboard/device control for slideshows?

Posted on Oct 27, 2015 3:25 PM