Quick-Input Toolbar

The keys missing from the iOS keyboard

The iOS software keyboard is great for writing prose. It's not great for writing code. The characters you type constantly — Tab, curly braces, square brackets, backtick, pipe, tilde — are buried in secondary keyboards that require multiple taps to reach.

Remote IDE adds a dedicated toolbar row above the keyboard with exactly those characters. One tap, no modifier keys, no keyboard switching.

• Tab — for indentation
• Curly braces { }
• Square brackets [ ]
• Parentheses ( )
• Dot ., equals =, hash #
• Backtick, pipe, tilde, underscore, and more

Available in the editor and the terminal

The toolbar appears whenever the editor or the SSH terminal has keyboard focus. In the terminal, the same set of keys speeds up command entry — typing paths, flags, and shell syntax is faster when you don't have to hunt for punctuation.

• Active in the code editor
• Active in the SSH terminal
• Active in the AI agent terminal window

Works with hardware keyboards too

If you use a Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Folio, the toolbar stays out of the way — no extra row of software keys cluttering the screen when you have a full physical keyboard. It appears only when the software keyboard is visible.