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iPad Keyboard characters transposed / typing wrong letters etc

Hi,

I have an iPad Air 2, running OS version 14.8. Normally, I use a Logitech canvas keyboard that I bought at the same time.

A few weeks ago I found that the keyboard was transposing a lot of letters and characters, such as q and a for example. This went on for some time and I assumed that the keyboard was packing up, as it is several years old, and purchased a new Bluetooth one. While I was waiting for that to arrive, I turned my iPad off for some reason and when it came back on, the problem had disappeared!

Since then, the ipad has been switched off on many occasions but, when I turned it on this morning, the old problem had returned, transposing exactly the same letters and characters. Thinking it was the Logitech keyboard playing up again, I got the new one out, only to find that the problem persisted. I am currently having to use the on screen keyboard, which I really don’t like, as neither of my “external “ ones will work. There is no problem with the on screen keyboard.

Can anyone help with this please - I use my iPad for all my emails and documents.

incidentally, the last time I posted a problem on here I received many helpful responses but found I was unable to post a reply to post a reply y to any of them so, if I fail to respond to anyone, please don’t think I am being rude!

Many thanks

Stephanie

iPad Air 2, iPadOS 14

Posted on Sep 14, 2022 2:39 AM

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Posted on Sep 14, 2022 5:12 AM

Puddings58 wrote: I found that the keyboard was transposing a lot of letters and characters, such as q and a for example.

That kind of transposition may indicate that you have accidently switched your keyboard language mapping, which is not hard to do in some circumstances. For example, English has qwerty, French has azerty.


Go to settings > general > keyboard > keyboards and make sure there is ONLY ONE language on that list. Then go to settings > general > keyboard > hardware keyboard and tap over at the right edge and make sure that the mapping you want is checked (and NOT "automatic")

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Sep 14, 2022 5:12 AM in response to Puddings58

Puddings58 wrote: I found that the keyboard was transposing a lot of letters and characters, such as q and a for example.

That kind of transposition may indicate that you have accidently switched your keyboard language mapping, which is not hard to do in some circumstances. For example, English has qwerty, French has azerty.


Go to settings > general > keyboard > keyboards and make sure there is ONLY ONE language on that list. Then go to settings > general > keyboard > hardware keyboard and tap over at the right edge and make sure that the mapping you want is checked (and NOT "automatic")

iPad Keyboard characters transposed / typing wrong letters etc

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