Keyboard Shortcuts

The Scenery editor is built for Mac and iPad with a hardware keyboard – that's where these shortcuts apply. iPhone and Apple Vision Pro are mainly for viewing experiences. On Mac, the editor commands also live in the menu bar, so you can always rediscover them there.

Modifier keys: ⌘ Command, ⇧ Shift, ⌥ Option, ⎋ Escape, ↩ Return, ⌫ Delete.

App & windows

Shortcut	Action
⌘N	New window
⌘?	Open the documentation
⌘F	Search – in Discover, the Asset Library, and your Experiences
⎋	Close or cancel the current panel
↩	Confirm the default button in a dialog

Editor – experience

Shortcut	Action
⌘S	Save the experience
⌘W	End editing (close the editor)
⌘P	Preview the experience
⌘.	Stop the preview
⌘⇧P	Preview the selected object
⌥A	Run the selected action – press again to stop
⌘⌥R	Send to connected devices ProPart of the Pro plan and up

Editor – objects

Shortcut	Action
⌘C, ⌘X, ⌘V	Copy, cut, paste the selected object
⌘D	Duplicate the selected object
⌥ (hold while dragging)	Snap the gizmo to a grid
⇧ (click), ⌘ (click)	Add an object to the selection, or remove it again
⇧ (drag in the viewport)	Draw a rectangle to select everything inside it
⌘⇧ (drag in the viewport)	Draw a rectangle and add what it covers to the selection

Editor – interface builder

When an experience has a custom user interface, the UI panel adds:

Shortcut	Action
↑, ↓	Select the previous, next element
⌘D	Duplicate the selected element
⌘⌥C, ⌘⌥V	Copy, paste an element's style
↩	Rename the selected element
⌫	Delete the selected element
⌘Z, ⌘⇧Z	Undo, redo

Media – video trim

When choosing a video's thumbnail or trim point:

Shortcut	Action
←, →	Step one frame back, forward
↩	Confirm
⎋	Cancel