On iPad/iOS, the esc key is trapped as a home key -- this can be disabling if you need the esc key for shells, editors, etc.
Good news is, that there's an alternative and I found it pretty quick an easy to adapt to it:
To invoke Escape, press Command + period (.) on the keyboard.
In VSCode on the iPad, as a vi user, this wouldn't work. A vim alternative to escape is Ctrl + [
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