# Keyboards

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/keyboards
Skill: hig-inputs
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# Keyboards

## Best practices

**Support Full Keyboard Access when possible.**

**Respect standard keyboard shortcuts.**

## Standard keyboard shortcuts

**In general, don’t repurpose standard keyboard shortcuts for custom actions.**

## Custom keyboard shortcuts

**Define custom keyboard shortcuts for only the most frequently used app-specific commands.**

**Use modifier keys in ways that people expect.**

**List modifier keys in the correct order.**

**Avoid adding Shift to a shortcut that uses the upper character of a two-character key.**

**Let the system localize and mirror your keyboard shortcuts as needed.**

**Avoid creating a new shortcut by adding a modifier to an existing shortcut for an unrelated command.**

## Platform considerations

### visionOS

**Write descriptive shortcut titles.**

**Recognize that people see an overlay when they use a physical keyboard with your visionOS app or game.**

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