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Set up a pedal, presentation clicker or keyboard

Keyboards, page-turner pedals and presentation remotes work with the space, arrow and page keys right away, and every key can be changed under Controls in the prompter's settings.

1. Connect it. Pair it over Bluetooth or plug it in, the way you would for any app.
2. Try the default keys. Space starts and stops, and the arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down, Home and End work right away.
3. Teach it your buttons. Open Settings, then Controls. The learn pages for a presentation remote and a pedal ask you to press the button you want for each command. Escape is fixed.
4. For headphone buttons and shutter remotes, turn on media remotes. They're off by default. Turning them on lets five buttons work: play and pause, next and previous track, and seek. It takes over Now Playing, so music from another app stops on iPhone and iPad.

Game controllers work too, on a fixed map that can't be changed. Shortcuts can open a script in the prompter, make a script or read a script's text. On the Mac, a Contour ShuttlePro v2 or ShuttleXpress jog wheel works over USB; see the Mac article.

By Cutvey · Updated November 4, 2026