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Problems with the keyboard on iOS devices and ways to solve them

good time! Use the keyboard (even virtual) is not a tricky thing. Know, press on your screen and write messages, notes, SMS, poems, novels Well, or what would you like to print there. However, sometimes certain difficulties or problems may arise in the process (call them as you like), which just interfere with the full use of the phone or tablet!:(

And although on Apple devices, these very troubles happen quite rarely, no one is still safe from them. And since this can happen at the most inopportune moment, it is better to be prepared. Therefore, today we will consider the most common issues regarding the virtual keyboard on our beloved gadgets with you.

General questions and malfunctions

The keyboard is missing on the iPhone (well, or on iPad)

The reason for the non-appearance of the keyboard can be, both not very correctly flashing the device and the use of any tweaks (if Jailbreak is installed).

There are several options to fix this misunderstanding:

• The easiest is to reboot the device.
• complicated. drop the settings.
• Even more difficult. make a complete discharge. Do not forget about backup (using a computer or cloud) and subsequent restoration.
• Long (but the most effective). install the latest software (firmware), even if you already have the newest. Just upgrade again.

The keyboard does not work

It is important to figure out. the display does not process presses or the function input the text input is simply not functioning. To do this, start any application and try to “poke” the screen.

Depending on the result, we do the following actions:

Fix the iPad keyboard in the middle of the screen

In fact, the iPad has two positions for the virtual keyboard. One of them is Docked Mode, and the other is undocked mode. In Docked Mode, the virtual keyboard is placed at the bottom of the iPad screen, and in Undocked Mode. in the middle. So if you accidentally activated Undocked Mode, your keyboard will be in the center of the screen. To fix this, please do the following:

Check the connection

Check if there is dust and garbage in the connector, which may interfere with the connection. This often leads to the fact that the iPad Pro keyboard does not work properly. It is necessary to regularly maintain the connection in cleanliness.

Sometimes you can find that the virtual keyboard does not cope with your print speed, which means that your keyboard is lagging behind, or sometimes your keyboard freezes and does not reflect your print. Here are the corrections of this problem.

If you find that the iPad virtual keyboard does not work properly with one application, you can delete this application and install it again to check if the problem has been eliminated.

Sometimes the problem with the iPad keyboard, which does not work properly, may be caused by ICLOUD DRIVE.

Go to “Settings”, click on your Apple ID and go to iCloud to turn off the iCloud Drive.

Apple unexpectedly updated Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro

To bookmarks

Once again taking the iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard in my hands and unlocking the device, I saw an unexpected proposal to update the keyboard. As it turned out, Apple was quietly released a new software for a branded accessory, correcting it, at least one well.known error reported by users.

It’s about random awakening iPad Pro from time to time when it is connected to the accessory. This is the only thing the company says on the official website, but not the only well.known problem.

For example, it happens that a combination of CMDTAB keys stops working to switch between applications. It is not known whether this problem has been solved in this update. Although while I write this news and from time to time I switch between the programs, I have not yet noticed failures.

But he noticed that it became possible to move along the menu for the selection of applications for managing the cursor control if you press CMDTAB, and then not release the CMD key. The menu remains in place, and the user has the opportunity to move the cursor of choosing the application to the left and right with arrows. I chose, released CMD, moved to the right application. conveniently. By the way, in OS X you can also.

If, after unlock the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard connected keyboard, the system did not offer to update the accessory, turn it off and connect it again. After that, the desired inscription should appear, and in English, regardless of the current linguistic setting of the system. The process of updating the internal keyboard takes about 30 seconds. You can’t disconnect the Smart Keyboard from the tablet at this time.

Let me remind you that information about the possibility of updating accessories through Smart Connector appeared at the end of January, but then it was about third.party devices. For them, this function will be implemented in iOS 9.3. In the current relevant version of the mobile operating system, as practice has shown, such a chip is available only for a branded accessory.

To bookmarks

And did it through the air. Once again taking the iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard in my hands and unlocking the device, I saw an unexpected proposal to update the keyboard. As it turned out, Apple was quietly released a new software for a branded accessory, correcting it, at least one well.known error reported by users. It’s about random awakening iPad Pro time from.

iPad Pro, keyboard and trackpad: which is still not enough for the tablet to become as convenient as the laptop of the article of the editorial office

I spent two months with the iPad Pro and the Magic Keyboard keyboard. And before the future WWDC, where the new generation of iPados will be presented, I tried to formulate the main difficulties that you can face when working on the current generation of the tablet, and showed that you can do with them.

I will warn you right away. I believe that the tablets will sooner or later win laptops. By defending my position, I usually suggest looking at the laptop as a concept, discarding technical issues, performance, software and historically established expectations.

It turns out that the laptop is the three main parts:

The rest of the massive part around the keyboard is just a “backend” in the usual form factor that ensures the operation of the device.

A tablet in the same simplified look at the device is only a screen, which at the same time can not only display content, but also be an input tool. If desired, you can connect a keyboard with a trackpad to it. and turn it into a laptop, or only a keyboard. and turn it into a hybrid of a laptop and a tablet.

You can work with him sitting at the table or lying on the couch, drawing a stylus on the screen, it can be connected to cellular communication, used as a navigator in a drone or as a cash desk in a store. Tablet of a universal laptop, easier and more convenient.

Such an explanation would convince anyone, but, unfortunately, we are today at the stage when it is impossible to forget about technical points so easy, and software, perhaps, is often more important than the device itself.

• To install a small video, you still need a voracious After Effects, which is available only on a desktop operating system.
• To work with the code requires an IDE that works only on MacOS or Windows.
• To solve highly specialized problems, you can not do without Finder, mouse, cursor and some program that must be installed through the DMG file.

With such introductory ones, it will no longer be possible to unequivocally say which of the devices is more universal, simpler and more convenient. a laptop or tablet.

If earlier comparisons with the computer were rather theoretical. look, the tablet can work almost like a computer. then with the release of Magic Keyboard with a “real” keyboard and trackpad iPad is already positioned as a direct competitor to MacBook.

Apple now seems to say to those who are thinking about buying a laptop: here is the same keyboard on the tablet, they added a trackpad, there is multitasking, games, why look at the computer when there is an iPad.

In one of the past reviews, the iPad Pro and Smart Keyboard with the keys covered with fabric, I wrote that the keyboard is noticeably increases the thickness of the tablet. So the new Magic Keyboard makes the design “tablet plus keyboard” even thicker and more massive.

The thickness of the part that is attached to the iPad on magnets has increased. so that the tablet holds stronger and does not fall out of the cover when you change the angle of its inclination.

And the thickness of the part where the keyboard is located has increased. Because now there are full.fledged plastic keys and a metal base, which ensures the stability of the entire structure.

In terms of compactness, Magic Keyboard clearly loses to past generations of keyboards. In addition to increased sizes, it also weighs 600 grams. twice as larger Smart Keyboard and almost the same as the iPad Pro itself weighs.

But now on the iPad you can work with a full.fledged keyboard and with the same tactile sensations as on a laptop. Without a “butterfly” and a fabric enveloping the key, but with T-shaped arrows and backlight.

If the massiveness is frightened, but I want to work with the cursor, it is better to look towards the combination of the last generation of Smart Keyboard keyboards with keys covered with fabric, and trackpades from the Mac. Then on the road you can do without a trackpad, and work with it at home or in the office.

The trackpad for Magic Keyboard turned out to be small, especially if you compare it with the same for MacBook or Mac. However, its size is enough to move a round large cursor from one edge of a small 11-inch screen to another without the need to shift a finger several times. And, unlike MacBook, it does not have cunning vibromotors imitating pressing. The trackpad Magic Keyboard is pressed “physically”.

In the settings, you should immediately enable the “right mouse button” for tap with two fingers and slippers to simulate physical pressing on the trackpad

From the side. a charging connector. “Eating” iPad through the same three points on the rear cover of the tablet designed to connect covers. But accessories cannot be connected through this connector.

The surprise was that the angle of inclination is regulated only in that part of the cover that is attached to the tablet. The second hinge located in the lower part of Magic Keyboard is not involved in this process and is actually used only to lay out and fold the device.

The most comfortable position for me is the most tilted back screen. Although in this position I still want to periodically tilt the tablet even more.

It is interesting that with the maximum tilted screen, for using buttons with numbers, the fingers have to climb almost under the screen.

It is always interesting to watch how one of the colleagues first tries to print something on the IPad physical keyboard. He or she takes a tablet, opens a browser, “notes” or a messenger, then tries to write “Hello how you are doing?””.

For inexplicable reasons, I have an English keyboard layout on the iPad in such cases. In attempts to change the language, a colleague instantly learns at once about the two most unusual solutions in the iPad keyboard.

It looks like this: at first he or she tries to change the layout using the usual combination of CMD keys and. But instead of changing the tongue, the just open application disappears from the iPad screen and the search screen appears throughout the operating system. To go back, a colleague automatically tries to press Escape on the keyboard. But he is not.

From the first generation, the iPad Pro Apple decided not to tolerate the key combination from the computer to switch between languages, highlighting for this a separate button from the bottom left. A logical solution. especially for those who started meeting computer equipment not from a laptop, but from a smartphone, where one button on the screen is responsible for switching the tongue.

Logitech has released a huge keyboard for iPad Pro

Branded keyboards for iPad Pro are comfortable, but quite expensive. Of course, a person who can afford such a tablet is unlikely to think about the cost of the keyboard, but still the there-Mom do not grieve: do not grieve:

But, as often happens, you need to wait a bit (for example, almost six months, as in this case), and other companies will begin production of compatible accessories. So Logitech released a keyboard-coat. However, like most third.party accessories, she has a problem: appearance.

Smart Keyboard Folio can be called a beautiful and neat keyboard. But Logitech Slim Folio Pro. no. There is a bunch of heaped elements, visually weighting the tablet:

And also a terrible gray color.

It seems that between manufacturers who have a license to produce MFI accessories (Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod Apple Watch), and Apple is some kind of conversation:

And in the end we get similar covers that even look too heavy in photographs. And what to hide there: they often spoil the appearance of the device.

The thickness is just tin.

But Logitech Slim Folio Pro has one advantage over a standard keyboard:

This is the Apple Pencil stylus. It is not very clear whether the pen will be charged in this form, but it still adds confidence that the stylus will not be lost.

Okay. In fact, there is another advantage here: keyboard backlighting!

The key stroke is 1.6 mm. The main thing is not a “butterfly”.

Logitech promises that the battery charge is enough for three months of work, if you use the keyboard for 2 hours a day. It is hard to believe in this, but to question the characteristics until the keyboard has been tested is early.

In addition to backlighting, there is the upper row of functional keys. Theoretically, this will simplify your life when working with iPad Pro:

And the standard iPad Pro does not have such buttons! An additional number of keys in the Logitech Slim Folio Pro allows you to return to the main screen, adjust the brightness and volume, cause iOS search, and activate Bluetooth.

But this should be convenient!

Yes, Logitech Slim Folio Pro works on Bluetooth, while the standard keyboard is through Smart Connector. Why do manufacturers do not make accessories compatible with it?

The same Smart Connector.

In addition to the appearance and Bluetooth, the keyboard also weighs like an elephant: 552 grams for iPad Pro 11 and 707 grams for the iPad Pro 12.9. These indicators are more similar in the Epplov Smart Folio Keyboard for 150 and 300 g, respectively. Thus, the tablet weighs with it 1020 and 1340 g, depending on the model! The moment when the MacBook Air is easier than the tablet. And it is strange that the version for a large iPad Pro weighs more than a similar aluminum keyboard from Brydge:

Welcome to Support Logitech

Warranty replacement is usually carried out at the place of purchase. In the current circumstances, Logitech cannot replace the warranty, we recommend that you seek guarantee assistance at the purchase place. We will not allow the expiration of the warranty period during this period of the crisis and complete the current guarantees as soon as possible. Our telephone lines that are currently not available for technical reasons. You can contact us through our round-the-clock online chat or write to us by e-mail.

If part of the keys or all the keys on the Combo Touch for the iPad Pro with a diagonal of 12.9 inches and 11 inches do not work, try to perform the above actions.

Re.connect the device to the iPad and check the keyboard performance.

• Make sure that on the SMART Connector connector of the iPad device and the upper part of the keyboard there is no pollution and dust.
• Check that the iPad device is properly located in the case, and the Smart Connector connector coincided with the connector on the keyboard.
• Place the iPad device so as to ensure reliable connection of the SMART Connector connector (fixation using a small magnet).

If this did not help solve the problem, perform a software reset of iPad device settings. Instructions for software reset of settings. next.

• Press the power button and the return button to the main screen, and then hold them until the iPad device is rebooted and the Apple emblem appears.
• After the reboot is performed, make sure that the keyboard is connected to the iPad device, and then check its performance.

Make sure the iPados operating system on the iPad is updated to the latest version.

• Connect the iPad device to the power source, and then install the Internet connection via Wi-Fi.
• Select “Settings” “General” “Update”.
• Select the “load”, “install” items sequentially, and then follow the instructions on the screen.
• After installing the updates, the iPad device will be rebooted.
• Make sure the keyboard is connected properly, and check its performance.

The keyboard firmware is the Logitech Combo Touch for the iPad Pro with a diagonal of 12.9 inches and 11 inches should be updated to the latest version.

• Download the Logitech Control application from the App Store store on the iPad device, which you use with the keyboard.
• Launch the Logitech Control application. If updates are available for the keyboard firmware, they will be displayed in the application.
• This application can be downloaded here by pressing the application icon below or scanning the QR code using iPad.

Welcome to Support Logitech

Warranty replacement is usually carried out at the place of purchase. In the current circumstances, Logitech cannot replace the warranty, we recommend that you seek guarantee assistance at the purchase place. We will not allow the expiration of the warranty period during this period of the crisis and complete the current guarantees as soon as possible. Our telephone lines that are currently not available for technical reasons. You can contact us through our round-the-clock online chat or write to us by e-mail.

If part of the keys or all the keys on the Combo Touch for the iPad Pro with a diagonal of 12.9 inches and 11 inches do not work, try to perform the above actions.

Re.connect the device to the iPad and check the keyboard performance:

• Make sure that on the Smart Connector connector iPad, as well as under the cover of the cover and on the disconnected keyboard there is no pollution and dust.
• The iPad device must be properly located in the case so that the Smart Connector connector coincides with the hole.
• Place the iPad device so as to ensure reliable connection of the SMART Connector connector (fixation using a small magnet).

If this did not help solve the problem, perform a software reset of iPad device settings. Instructions for software reset of settings. next.

• Press the power button and the return button to the main screen, and then hold them until the iPad device is rebooted and the Apple emblem appears.
• After the reboot is performed, make sure that the keyboard is connected to the iPad device, and then check its performance.

Make sure the iPados operating system on the iPad is updated to the latest version.

• Connect the iPad device to the power source, and then install the Internet connection via Wi-Fi.
• Select “Settings” “General” “Update”.
• Select the “load”, “install” items sequentially, and then follow the instructions on the screen.
• After installing the updates, the iPad device will be rebooted.
• Make sure the keyboard is connected properly, and check its performance.

The keyboard firmware is the Logitech Combo Touch for the iPad Pro with a diagonal of 12.9 inches and 11 inches should be updated to the latest version.

• Download the Logitech Control application from the App Store store on the iPad device, which you use with the keyboard.
• Launch the Logitech Control application. If updates are available for the keyboard firmware, they will be displayed in the application.
• This application can be downloaded here by pressing the application icon below or scanning the QR code using iPad.

The Apple Smart Keyboard keyboard was recognized as a nonsense

Together with the 12.9-inch tablet IPad Pro, Apple introduced the Pencil stylus and the Czech Clovature Smart Keyboard. Specialists of the popular IFIXIT resource have already dismantled the “pencil” from Apple and recognized it almost a non.nonsense. Now the turn Smart Keyboard has come. The keyboard is made in the form factor of the cover cover and is connected to the tablet through special connectors, so there is no built-in battery inside the accessory.

After a complete disassembly, IFIXIT employees came to the conclusion that the Smart Keyboard keyboard for the iPad Pro cannot be repaired at all, and in the case of any breakdown, it is simply impossible to fix it and bring the accessory to its original state. Therefore, Smart Keyboard received 0 points out of 10 on the maintenance scale.

ARTAG geomete

I do not know who the idea could think of fixing something in the Airtag geomete, but in any case, the repair of this accessory is impossible. Although in Apple they left the opportunity to independently replace the battery, which is already not bad.

In all other respects, this is a typical Apple accessory. To provide protection IP67 and the ability to resist the immersion for 1 meter up to 30 minutes, of course I had to glue the case on a special glue.

Charger and cables

I’m talking about charging iPhone and Mac, as well as any types of cables that Apple produces. Personally, I am very pleased with the fact that Cupertino refused to power laptops with a built.in cable, since the laces often became unusable, and it was possible to replace them separately, but only with a copy and method of analyzing the original adapter.

And although in recent years, the strength of the wires for charging in Apple has worked well, and they are not torn not very massively. I recommend replacing the wire with a new one, and not try to return to life a damaged lace.

With power supplies about the same picture. That is, if you break, then disassemble carefully in order to maintain the appearance and integrity of the case, it is simply impossible.