iPad digital keyboard disappears after each symbol

As I use a physical keyboard on my iPad I rarely need to use the digital one, unless I need to use special symbols not present on the physical version. However, when I click on the keyboard icon at the bottom of the screen, the keyboard appears just fine up until I click on it. It will write down the symbol I clicked on but immediately disappear and I have to keep clicking on the keyboard icon to make it big again and type symbol per symbol. This proves to be quite annoying as I often need to type more than one symbol.


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iPad Pro

Posted on Jan 26, 2025 06:21 AM

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Feb 2, 2025 04:13 AM in response to Gigi_360

Gigi_360 wrote:

Sorry, I should have mentioned my physical keyboard is a French keyboard so the keys are different. None of the ones I mentioned are on my physical keyboard so that’s why I need the digital one.

Those keys are on every keyboard someplace. For French, the brackets are on the option and option shift levels of the ( and ) keys. \ is on the option shift level of the : key. If there is more you can't find, let me know.

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