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Billybobvi Author

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ipad pro magic keyboard caps lock key

Hi. I received my Ipad Pro Magic Keyboard the other day. I have yet been able to get the Caps Lock key to work. I have gone into to settings and set that button to Caps Lock with the blue check mark. I then go into my notes app and click on the Caps Lock key and first off the light does not light up. Then i get a pop up small grey rectangle in the middle of the screen that says “English US” and if i press the key again the “English US” changes to “Fonts”. Can anyone help me with this please?

Thanks

Billy

iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi

Posted on Apr 26, 2020 1:48 PM

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Airssies

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Posted on Jun 7, 2020 6:24 PM

Hey,

I so I had this issue too but I found out how to fix it!

Go to your settings
Go to General
Find keyboard
Go to hardware keyboard
Then turn off the use caps lock to switch languages.

Hope this was helpful!!

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Bllwj

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Jun 10, 2020 9:35 PM in response to Tuannewzealand

I also have the same issue with you. Really disappointed for this keyboard cost me over nearly $400. I hope it can improve the efficiency of my work, while it is not. I set everything okay, like caps lock for capitalization, while it shows the same thing of globe. I used both Chinese and English. When I type caps lock, it just change the language type, not showing the capitalization it should have.

Tom Gewecke

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Jun 10, 2020 9:50 PM in response to Bllwj

Bllwj wrote:

I tried like the above picture, while it does not work.

But in that picture, you have the SWITCH LANGUAGES USING CAPS LOCK turned ON. Why don't you turn it OFF?? Then Caps Lock should make upper case letters.

Reffers

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Jun 13, 2020 8:25 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I just fixed it - when you go to settings/ general/ keyboards I had 3 keyboards (English (US), Emoji and Translate now. I clicked edit in the top right hand corner and deleted that keyboard leaving only English (US) and Emoji and it seems to have worked..

Reffers

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Jun 13, 2020 8:27 AM in response to Bllwj

You shouldn’t need to go to hardware keyboard - I just fixed mine by going to settings/ general/ keyboards - I had 3 keyboards (English (US), Emoji and Translate now. I clicked edit in the top right hand corner and deleted the ‘translate now’ keyboard leaving only English (US) and Emoji and it seems to have worked..

Tom Gewecke

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118,820 points

Jul 14, 2020 2:19 AM in response to Toby3243

Toby3243 wrote:

I have exactly the same problem. With multiple keyboards the caps lock doesn’t work.

Please provide the names of the keyboards you have on your list in settings > general > keyboard > keyboards

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Aug 10, 2020 2:42 AM in response to crapandbstimeaste

crapandbstimeaste wrote:

CAPS LOCK KEY DOES NOT WORK>. PLEASE GIVE SIMPLE FIX AND DONT ASSUME I KNOW WHERE TO START AND PLEASE SKIP TE GIBBERISH TO IMPRESS ME

Please go to settings > general > keyboard > keyboards and tell us exactly what you have on that list.

Are you using all caps in your posting because you cannot turn Caps Lock off?

Billybobvi Author

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Apr 26, 2020 3:36 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the reply. Where is that setting? I had set the Caps Lock key to Cap Lock in the settings under General>Keyboard>Hardware Keyboard>Modifier Keys

Toby3243

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Jul 14, 2020 11:26 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

They are:

English (UK)
Japanese-Kana
Emoji

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

118,820 points

Apr 26, 2020 5:06 PM in response to Billybobvi

Billybobvi wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Where is that setting?

Here is one that appears when certain keyboards are activated. There may be another place, have to check later..

Billybobvi Author

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Apr 26, 2020 5:41 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Wow!! I don’t have that setting. I’m using iPad OS 13.4.1

Bllwj

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Jun 10, 2020 9:41 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I tried like the above picture, while it does not work. I do hope apple can address this issue asap. It not, we should return the keyboard to them.

Aug 17, 2020 7:53 AM in response to Billybobvi

My husband just fixed that problem. Go General setting—keyboard—hardware keyboard—turn off “Use caps to switch languages”

Billybobvi Author

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Apr 26, 2020 2:12 PM in response to Billybobvi

OK so disregard. I had a Fonts Keyboard and once I removed that the Caps Lock key worked perfectly but what does the Caps Lock key have to do with keyboards?