Here's my (rather lengthy) iPad case review. Hang on tight!
When I first got my iPad Pro 11, I put it in this case from Amazon. I didn't know if I was going to get the ASK, as this is my first IPP, and I definitely didn't want to take it out of the Apple Store without a cover.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J6NKVZP/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
(It's not available now, but they keep restocking it.)
The case is okay, but the magnets aren't as strong as I would have liked. It doesn't have the sleep/wake function either. But for $8, it did its job. (Later, I've tried a couple of other knockoff SFs from Amazon. Same problem with the magnets each time, so I sent them back.)
I bit the bullet and got what I thought was the ASK but is actually the SKF. Same thing (more or less), different generation. I thought that having the keyboard behind me when in tablet mode would bother me, but since I normally use an iPad pillow, it wasn't a big deal. Even when I'm not using the pillow, I quickly became accustomed to the keyboard on the back. But since I don't use the keyboard that much at home, I kept looking for a case to use when I was just reading.
I love the feel and smell of quality leather, so my next purchase with the Pad & Quill Oxford case.
https://www.padandquill.com/oxford-ipad-pro-11.html It's a gorgeous case with quality leather. However, as so many others noted, P&Q uses a special adhesive to hold the iPP in place. I didn't have the problems with the adhesive that I thought I might. It's easy to use, and if you take the iPP out of the case, it doesn't leave a mark or residual glue. However, if you try using the Oxford case with the SKF (as shown on the P&Q website) and then remove from the SKF, it leaves an ugly spot that's hard to clean. Of course, as most of you know,
everything leaves a spot on the SKF, so that wasn't a complete deal breaker, though it was a start. There's a line of threading inside the case (the part that faces the glass of the IPP); it's there so that you can prop up the case like a stand. However, that line of threading would cause a smudge on the iPP; it was there every time I opened it, and it drove me nuts. So I wrapped it up and sent it back to P&Q.
Next (in between spurts of using the KSF), I went with Fintie.
https://www.amazon.com/Fintie-SlimS...&keywords=ipad+pro+11+fintie+composition+case. At $9, it's a bargain. It provides side protection, the sleep/wake works, and there's a place to hold the Pencil.
I also tried the SF. I wasn't going to buy it, but I had some certificates that were about to expire and BB was having a deal on their open boxes, so I decided to try it. To my surprise, I really like it. The magnets are much stronger than on the cheap knockoffs I had found on Amazon.
At the moment, I'm either going caseless or using the SF at home and sometimes putting the SKF when I leave. I like that the cases are so easy to change, though the Fintie Composition Case wasn't that much harder to switch and it has side protection.
Therefore, what Apple has provided, maybe putting the iPP in a nice sleeve, might be my answer. At the same time, due to my love of a good leather case, I'm strongly considering the Burkley case.
https://www.burkleycase.com/smart-l...ipad-pro-11-2018-version-in-distressed-brown/. Or I might wait
Obviously, this has been a quest of sorts, but I believe if anyone understands, it's the people here in this forum!