Users of iPads equipped with a Magic Keyboard, Smart Keyboard, or any external keyboard can utilize a keyboard shortcut to open Quick Notes from anywhere on the iPad. For some users, this may be more convenient than using the swipe gesture to access Quick Notes.

If you're accustomed to using the fn Q shortcut on the Mac to bring up Quick Notes, then you'll find this iPad trick familiar and straightforward—except that on the iPad, you use the Globe key and Q key combination.

To launch Quick Notes on an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard, press Globe Q

This same Globe Q shortcut works across all iPad models when using a Smart Keyboard to open a Quick Note.

The Globe key is located in the lower-left corner of the iPad's keyboard and features an icon resembling a globe marked with latitude and longitude lines.

For other external keyboards connected to the iPad, pressing fn Q should activate Quick Notes. For instance, if you're using a Bluetooth keyboard that doesn't have a Globe key, pressing fn Q will work instead.

You can trigger Quick Notes using Globe Q whether you're on the Home Screen or inside an app. Once activated, the Quick Note instantly appears as an overlay on the screen, ready for you to type, draw, insert images, paste clipboard content, or use it however you normally would with notes.

Like standard notes, Quick Notes can be locked, shared, and support all the usual features available in the Notes app.

So, if you enjoy using Quick Notes on either the iPad or Mac and regularly use a physical keyboard with your iPad, you’ll appreciate being able to use essentially the same keyboard shortcut to open Quick Notes on the iPad as you do on the Mac. Press Globe Q and you’re off.

If your hands are already on the keyboard, why not use a keyboard shortcut to bring up Quick Note? Globe Q is easy to hit and instantly opens Quick Note on the iPad when a physical keyboard is connected, provided the device is running iPadOS 15 or later. If you also use a Mac, you might already know that fn Q (which corresponds to Globe Q on the iPad) also activates Quick Note in macOS (from Monterey onward), making the experience more consistent between devices.

Of course, you can still open Quick Notes on the iPad by swiping upward from the bottom-right corner of the screen, either with your finger or Apple Pencil. But if your hands are on the keyboard and trackpad, this shortcut offers another efficient way to access the feature.

While we’ve focused on iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard, this method also works with the iPad Air and Magic Keyboard, or indeed any iPad model with a Smart Keyboard attached—or any iPad with any external keyboard connected (as long as you use the fn Q shortcut).

If you have any thoughts or experiences with Quick Notes on the iPad, feel free to share them in the comments.

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