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iPad Pro Apple Keyboard typing wrong characters

Has anyone ever experienced the Apple Keyboard on an iPad Pro typing the wrong characters?


The forward slash (/) comes out to a hyphen

(-)


And what's supposed to be the hyphen symbol turns out to be the question mark character (?)


Any help would be appreciated

iPad mini, iOS 9

Posted on Apr 20, 2020 12:31 PM

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Posted on Apr 20, 2020 1:49 PM

This happens a lot when someone has the wrong setting for Hardware Keyboard. What language keyboard do you normally use? My wild guess is that you want US English but instead have Spanish ISO. Let me know.


In any case, to fix it go to settings > general > keyboard > hardware keyboard and tap over at the right edge and pick the right one (and NOT "automatic").

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Apr 20, 2020 1:49 PM in response to AV1193

This happens a lot when someone has the wrong setting for Hardware Keyboard. What language keyboard do you normally use? My wild guess is that you want US English but instead have Spanish ISO. Let me know.


In any case, to fix it go to settings > general > keyboard > hardware keyboard and tap over at the right edge and pick the right one (and NOT "automatic").

iPad Pro Apple Keyboard typing wrong characters

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