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Can't use text keyboard on ipad when external hardware is connected

[Deleted User][Deleted User]
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Anyone else have this issue on ipad, always been an issue for me. If Ihave an external keyboard connected with the camera kit, anytime a text prompt appears the text keyboard stays docked and never pops up to use, it stays hidden. I have to unplug the external gear from the lightning port, then the keyboard will then up allowing me to enter text, then I plug the peripheral in again. Its been an issue for years for me with several ipads, and I wonder if this is something a dev can comment on, if its app based or a flaw in iOS thats never been addressed. In Cubasis it is impossible for me to name projects if external midi hardware is plugged in via lightning port.

Comments

  • wimwim
    edited November 2018

    I don’t have an USB keyboard available to try, but can suggest making a small investment in a BlueTooth keyboard instead. Any cheap one off of Amazon should do. I have this one: http://a.co/d/9stnEwz, and love it. When I need to type, I just unfold it and can instantly go to work. It doesn’t conflict with my NanoKEY Studio at all. It’s cross-platform compatible (Win, Android, iOS), and is compatible with keyboard shortcuts for copy/cut/paste, switching apps, and bringing up the emoji keyboard (if you’re into that sort of thing). It goes weeks and weeks without a recharge. Worth every penny.

    Plus it leaves your CCK Free to connect other stuff through the CCK.

  • SamuSamu

    As far as I know connecting an external keyboard either via USB or BT overrides the on-screen keyboard for text input. I've never had any issues using external BT keyboard to type in text into text fields in apps including Cubasis, SunVox, Gadget etc. etc.

  • NoiseFlooredNoiseFloored
    edited November 2018

    I had that issue at some point like a year go, I eventually figured out that one of the USB MIDI devices I was using emulated a keyboard USB device (typing keyboard, not musical/MIDI, that is). What devices do you have? Can you try isolating the issue by disconnecting them individually?

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    Thanks for replies. I have an Akai MPK and M-audio keyboards (piano keyboards) and neither allow text input when plugged in, the text keyboard never appears. Oh well.

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