With my iPad only lifestyle, there has been a pain point that's been present with a lot of iPad Pro users: keyboards.

There never seems to be a perfect keyboard for the iPad that is agreed upon with everyone. In fact there are a number of choices that seem to have some sort of drawback no matter how you look at it.

- Read on www.tablethabit.com/2018/08/the-trail-mix-of-ios-keyboards

This is one of my gripes with iOS and why I won't (yet) go iPad only. If Apple intends the iOS platform to be more than just consumption devices, fixing input - both with the keyboards (physical and soft) and pointing devices (Apple Pencil and introduce trackpad!) would go long way.

For example, when I use a non-Apple Japanese JIS Bluetooth keyboard it defaults to a US QWERTY layout. There is no way to tell iOS what layout is needed when it does the wrong thing.

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My original entry is here: The Trail Mix of iOS Keyboards - Tablet Habit. It posted Mon, 08 Oct 2018 06:19:10 +0000.

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