iPad wakes on bluetooth keyboard activity

I can't believe how awful this is.

It's bad enough that any keypress wakes the sleeping iPad. And it's made way worse than it has to be by the fact that in their infinite wisdom, Apple decided that an "off" switch was an unnecessary complication for a wireless keyboard.

But what's really #!!@ intolerable is the fact that the iPad won't subsequently go back to sleep. It will happily stay open to the logon page overnight, draining 20% of my battery while it sits in a closed backpack. I mean, really? Someone thought that was a good idea?

I understand the hassles that go with being an early adopter, and there are all sorts of rough edges that I'm willing to shrug my shoulders and say "well, it's v1", but this is just... words fail me.

I had this happen to me while I was traveling recently to my daughter's graduation. I had turned off the keyboard and put both of them in my bag. However, when I finally arrived at my destination I found that iPad had been running for the whoile trip and was displaying a message saying it had to be hooked up to iTunes. The short story here is that the iPad locked up because it was expecting my passcode and all it was getting was random keys from the keyboard that somehow woke up. I was completely locked out! I ended up haveing to go to a local Apple store where all they could do was restore it to its original, off the shelf state. Luckily I had backed up before I had left and I wasn't planning on doing any real work on this trip. Moral of the story for me, either turn off the BT or turn off the iPad if your traveling with both in your bag, particularly if you use a passcode for your iPad.

Hold down the power button on the side of the Bluetooth keyboard and it will turn off. The iPad will show the Bluetooth connection is gone. From then on touching any keys will no longer wake up the iPad and the iPad won't be able to connect to the keyboard until you press the power button again.

This was important to me for the simple scenario of having the bluetooth keyboard sitting across the room and my on the couch and trying to type - but the onscreen keyboard not showing up because it was connected to the keyboard on the other side of the room.

So ... for me the power button on the side of the Apple Wireless Keyboard works to solve this problem.

andrewgr wrote:
I can't believe how awful this is.

It's bad enough that any keypress wakes the sleeping iPad. And it's made way worse than it has to be by the fact that in their infinite wisdom, Apple decided that an "off" switch was an unnecessary complication for a wireless keyboard.

But what's really #!!@ intolerable is the fact that the iPad won't subsequently go back to sleep. It will happily stay open to the logon page overnight, draining 20% of my battery while it sits in a closed backpack. I mean, really? Someone thought that was a good idea?

I understand the hassles that go with being an early adopter, and there are all sorts of rough edges that I'm willing to shrug my shoulders and say "well, it's v1", but this is just... words fail me.

Hopefully this is posted with "tongue in cheek".

The obvious solution is turn turn either the iPad off (hold the wake/sleep button for a few seconds) or turn the keyboard off (there is an on/off switch on the keyboard - see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2830).