iOS 7: Safari, Mail (and other apps?) get keyboard shortcuts

Safari, Mail, and possibly other apps gained external keyboard shortcuts in iOS 7. Safari, for example, picked up many of its OS X sibling’s shortcuts such as:

• ⌘-T – open new tab
• ⌘-W – close current tab
• ⌘-R – refresh current tab
• ⌘-L – keyboard focus in address bar (so you can start typing right away)

Mail also picked up some shortcuts from its OS X version:

• ⌘-N – new message
• ⌘-⇧-D – send message

I’m not sure if keyboard shortcuts are available to third-party apps, but I sure as hell hope they are.

Update: Sounds like third-parties can do it. Thanks Benjamin!

@finertech @chartier Third party apps *can* implement keyboard shortcuts through the UIKeyboardCommand API.

— Benjamin Mayo (@bzamayo) November 7, 2013