There's still a difference between smaller devices and larger ones that probably plays a role in something like this. Can also be related to the possibility that future iPads will have a notch design as well in some shape or form.
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Keyboard layout change on iPad?!
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Yes, but the iPhone X has a notch now, and yet there’s no effort to make my SE conform to that standard. Given that iOS can differentiate between devices such that it does not change things that are not relevant to an older device, why do it on the iPad?
Of course it’s possible the SE is the anomaly here. I haven’t seen a 7 or 8 yet, so perhaps Apple is conforming all current products to the next generation of devices, and didn’t bother with the SE?
All the same, seemingly arbitrary and not appreciated.
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Just when you think Apple couldn’t get any more stupid, they needlessly mess with the keyboard layout. Why not let users choose how they want it? Even better, why not have the numbers across the top of the keyboard like literally every other keyboard in existence?
One day my iPad Air 2 will die and I can finally justify the price to switch to Android.
One day my iPad Air 2 will die and I can finally justify the price to switch to Android.
Could simply be some sort of an (inadvertent) oversight/bug.
Thought I was losing it when I kept in getting emojis pop up when trying to get the @ symbol
Switched to Gboard .. problem fixed
I considered Gboard, but then... a Google app seeing everything I type on my iPad?
No thanks.
Ugh. Except now I’m getting used to it in the new position LOL
Maybe they’ll make it an option ...
I wonder why the discussion is essentially just about the iPad if this kind of thing is on the iPhone as well.
Now that iOS 12.0.1 addresses it for the iPad, on the iPhone it seems that those keys still switch places (I guess perhaps just like they always did) when comparing between portrait and landscape keyboard.
