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On iPhone

How the editor is laid out on an iPhone held upright, and what changes when you turn it.

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A guitar score on iPhone, writing tab, the input panel at the bottom with the tools, the categories, the joystick and the keypad.
Writing tab on iPhone, the input panel open.
A guitar score on iPhone, writing tab, the input panel at the bottom with the tools, the categories, the joystick and the keypad.
Writing tab on iPhone, the input panel open.
On this page

The iPhone has everything the iPad has. Held upright, the editor keeps the score clear: the controls sit in the top bar and in one panel at the bottom, and nothing floats over the first staff. The editor says what each part does; this page says where it is on iPhone.

The top bar on iPhone

A score on iPhone, held upright: ✕ with its saved check, Undo and Redo, the track's name, the bottom panel and the eye at the top; the tools at the bottom.
A score on iPhone, held upright: ✕ with its saved check, Undo and Redo, the track's name, the bottom panel and the eye at the top; the tools at the bottom.
  • At the left, ✕ closes the score; a small check on it says the score is saved (see Saving). Undo and Redo are beside it.
  • In the middle, the name of the track you are on. Tap it to see the tracks: tap one to go to it, + to add one. Tap the name again to put them away.
  • At the right, the bottom panel button and the eye. The eye holds what the iPad has in its top bar: Document Info and Export are at the end of its menu, under how the score is shown.
The tracks under the track's name on iPhone: Electric Guitar, its sound, volume, solo and mute, and + at the top.
The tracks, from a tap on the track's name.

The input panel

The input panel, at the bottom, replaces the iPad’s tool selector, tools bar, joystick and keypad:

  • Its first row: the four tools, Select, Edit, Measure and Design, and at the right Cut, Copy, Paste and ?, which opens this help at the page for what’s on screen. With Display Zoom set to larger text, ? is at the end of the eye’s menu instead.
  • In Edit, the tools’ categories (Rhythm, Dynamics, Articulation and the rest, as icons). Tap one and its buttons open in a row above it, its name at the start.
  • Under them, the joystick or the arrows at the left, to move the cursor (Joystick switches between them), and the keypad at the right, to type frets.

Drag the handle at the panel’s top down to fold it into one row: the arrows, delete, Alt and shift, and a button to open it again; when no cursor is on the tab, the tools and the clipboard (? is in the open panel). Drag it up, or tap it, to open it. The panel stays as you left it, from one score to the next.

Turning the iPhone

Turn the iPhone on its side and the editor is laid out as on iPad: the tracks at the left edge, the tool selector beside them, and Document Info and Export back in the top bar. With the bottom panel open, the controls that would cover the score step aside, and the panel’s right edge holds the arrows, delete and the rest of what you need to write.

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