Windows offered a built-in Accessibility tool, the On-Screen Keyboard (OSK), as an alternative to physical keyboards. The OSK could be accessed through Settings on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 ...

The keyboard can move the text-insertion cursor, too. On an iPhone, press and hold the space bar until the keyboard dims, and then drag your finger to reposition the cursor on the screen.

Microsoft is testing a new on-screen keyboard layout designed to work with Xbox and handheld PC controllers.

However, the new gamepad keyboard layout in Windows 11 has controller-based navigation of the on-screen keyboard. There are also new shortcut buttons, like X for the backspace and Y for the spacebar.

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