Gmail email on iPad Keyboard BLOCKS what I am typing

iPads are supposed to be great… I am not in love

when I am using the google version of gmail… when I am typing the keyboard obscures 1/2 of all of the display… which results in the bottom portion of the email that I am typing being covered BY the keyboard… if I try to “slide the text” towards the top of the screen so that I can see the “bottom of what I am writing”…. As soon as I start typing the keyboard cover the bottom half and the text “ re-scrolls” it self…SO I CANT SEE WHAT IM WRITIN… SOMEBODY SUGGESTED RESTARTING IPAD…..

NO

THIS…text entry works fine as the text I am writing automatically scrolls “up and out of the way”….

the Google based version of gmail…does not…

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