Selecting and Moving Items

Select items before moving, editing, grouping, aligning, or exporting them. The selection overlay and control bar show the actions available for the current item type.

Select an Item

Tap an item to select it. A selection overlay appears around the item and the control bar shows above it with contextual actions.

Selected canvas item with the selection overlay visible and the contextual control bar above it.

On iPhone and iPad, tapping a second item adds it to the selection. While multiple items are selected, tap a selected item to remove it from the selection.

Double-tap an item to focus that item and perform its primary action: edit text, open a link card, play or pause media, or drill into a group.

Move an Item

Drag a selected item to reposition it on the board.

Multi-Select

Tap additional items on iPhone or iPad to add them to the selection.
Tap additional items while holding Command (Mac) to add them to the selection.
The control bar updates to show actions available for multiple items (align, distribute, group).

Multiple board items selected together with a shared selection outline and multi-item control bar.

Selection (Marquee)

Drag across an empty area of the board to draw a selection rectangle. Items whose center falls within the rectangle will be selected.

iPhone and iPad: Long-press empty canvas, choose Selection, then drag on empty canvas when the hint appears.
Mac: Click and drag on empty canvas space.
iPad with keyboard: Hold Command and drag on empty canvas space.

Selection Modifiers

You can press or release modifier keys during the drag to switch modes. The marquee color and item outlines update instantly to preview the result.

Shift while dragging: Add items to the existing selection. The marquee turns green.
Option while dragging: Remove items from the existing selection. The marquee turns red with a dashed border, and items inside lose their outlines.
No modifier: Replace current selection. Items outside the marquee dim to show they will be deselected.

Selection marquee in replace mode showing selected items inside the drag rectangle and dimmed items outside it.

Selection marquee in Shift add mode showing a green drag rectangle adding items to the existing selection.

Selection marquee in Option remove mode showing a dashed red drag rectangle removing an item from the existing selection.

Deselect

Tap an empty area of the board.
Press Escape.

When nothing is selected, tapping an empty board area opens the add content panel instead.

The Control Bar

When one or more items are selected, the control bar appears with actions specific to the selection:

Common actions: Lock, duplicate, delete.
Type-specific actions: Crop (images), edit (text), play (media), and more.
Layout actions: Arrange, layer order, alignment, distribution, pack, and equalize.

The control bar adapts based on item type and selection count. See the specific item type pages for details on each action.

Control bar for a selected item showing common item actions and type-specific controls.

Select All

Press ⌘A to select all items on the board.