# Turn pages Turn pages by touch, Bluetooth pedal, face gesture, or tilt — and jump anywhere in the score with the page scrubber, the Movements panel, and bookmarks. > Type: How-to · Status: Stable · Platforms: iPadOS 17+, iPadOS 17+ · Last reviewed: 2026-07-18 ## Turn pages by touch With a score open: - **Tap** near the left or right edge of the page — right edge turns forward, left edge turns back. Taps in the middle of the page leave it alone, so you can still pan and zoom normally. - **Swipe** left for the next page, right for the previous one. Double-tap the middle of the page to enter or leave fullscreen. There is no double-tap gesture near the edges — every tap there is a page turn. Page turns play a short page-curl animation — forward curls the page over, going back un-curls it. > **Note** — If `Reduce Motion` is on in the iPad's own Settings (Accessibility ▸ Motion), pages switch instantly with no curl. ## Two pages at once in landscape Rotate the iPad to landscape and the reader shows a two-page spread — two pages side by side with a book-spine shadow down the fold, like an open score on the piano. One turn advances the whole spread, so you always land on a coherent left·right pair. Rotate back to portrait for a single page. ## Turn pages with a Bluetooth pedal Page-turn pedals — AirTurn, PageFlip, Donner and the like — pair with the iPad as a Bluetooth keyboard. Once paired, they turn pages with no extra setup in Page Turner. 1. In the reader, open the `Toolbox` and tap `Bluetooth page pedal` (in the Accessibility section). 2. Put the pedal into pairing mode — follow the pedal's manual, usually a long press until its light blinks. 3. Tap `Open Bluetooth Settings`, go to the iPad's Bluetooth list, and wait for the pedal to appear. 4. Tap the pedal to connect. It pairs as a keyboard. 5. Back in the score, the pedal turns pages. Because a pedal is just a keyboard, any hardware keyboard works the same way: **Right arrow**, **Page Down**, or **Space** turn forward; **Left arrow** or **Page Up** turn back. > **Note** — While you're typing in any text field (a search bar, a name field), those keys type instead of turning pages. Close the field and the pedal takes over again. > **Note** — The `Shortcuts` list, next to the pedal row in the `Toolbox`, remaps the hardware-keyboard shortcuts for other reader actions (Metronome, Library, Focus Mode…). The page-turn keys themselves are fixed. ## Turn pages with your face Face gestures use the front TrueDepth camera to turn pages hands-free — a head turn or a chin lift while you play. 1. In the reader, open the `Toolbox` and tap `Face gesture page turning`. 2. Turn on `Enable face gesture` and allow camera access when asked. 3. Under `Trigger gesture — pick one`, choose the movement that turns the page: `Mouth Open` (the default), `Eyebrows Raise`, or `Head Turn`. 4. If you chose `Head Turn`, a `Head Turn motion` control appears below it — pick `Tilt head left / right`, `Turn head (full, with chin)`, or `Look up (chin up)` to advance by lifting your chin. 5. Watch the `Live signal` meter while you rehearse the gesture: the page turns when the green signal passes the line. 6. Adjust `Sensitivity` if turns fire too easily or too reluctantly, and under `Calibrate at rest`, tap `Calibrate` with a relaxed face so your resting expression is filtered out. Playing with your back to the audience? The `Turn head left → next page` switch flips which side advances. Hold the iPad so the front camera can see your face while you play. Leave `Start automatically in reader` off unless you use face turns every session — it keeps the camera out of app launch. ## Turn pages by tilting the iPad `Tilt to Turn Pages` turns the page from a slight tilt of the iPad on the stand. > **Limit** — There is no switch for it in Settings in this version. Ask the `Assistant` (in the reader `Toolbox`) to turn on `Tilt to Turn Pages` — it can flip the setting for you directly. ## Jump to a page A thin scrubber track runs along the bottom of the reader, with a small round thumb showing the current page number: 1. Touch the thumb and drag it along the track. 2. While you drag, a preview card floats above your finger showing the page under the thumb — in a landscape two-page spread it shows both pages of the pair. 3. Let go to land on that page. The track fades out a few seconds after the last touch, so it never sits over the music while you play; turning a page brings it back. ## Jump between movements Open the `Movements` panel: - **iPad** — tap `Table of Contents`, the book button at the left end of the top bar. - **iPhone** — open the reader `Toolbox` and tap `Table of Contents`. Each movement of the piece is a row showing its page range (`p.1 → p.5`), with: - an **arrow** button — jump to the movement's first page and close the panel; - an **eye** button — preview the movement's first page without leaving the panel; - a **pencil** button — edit the movement's label or pages, then tap `Update Movement`; - swipe left — `Delete` the movement entry. To add movements, pick the start and end page in the form at the bottom and tap `Save Movement`, or tap `Auto-detect` to scan the score for them. Entries that come from the PDF's own built-in table of contents are read-only: they can't be edited or deleted, and re-opening the score restores them. ### Save a movement as its own piece `Save as a piece` turns a movement into its own library entry, filed under the parent piece as a dropdown. The new piece gets its own Properties, annotations, and Follow calibration while sharing the original score file — no duplicate storage. Calibrating the smaller piece also makes Follow more accurate: a 5-page movement calibrates faster and follows tighter than a 30-page parent score. ## Bookmarks Bookmarks are personal jump-points, separate from the movements list. They live in the `Bookmarks` list in the library drawer: each row shows its label and `Page N`, tapping it opens the piece at that page, and a swipe deletes it (`Delete`). > **Limit** — This version has no button in the reader to mark a new bookmark; the reader control was removed. Bookmarks you already have still work from the list. Use the `Movements` panel to mark structural jump-points in the meantime.