Apple Smart Keyboard no longer deletes emails using delete key

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Apple Smart Keyboard no longer deletes emails using delete key

I have an 8th generation iPad and a Smart Keyboard. Ever since upgrading to iPadOS 14.2, my delete key will not work for deleting emails. I can use it for deleting characters (backspace) while editing text but not as an action when I am cleaning out a mailbox in the Mail.app.

Prior to iPadOS 14.2, this ability existed and on my old iPad using a Logitech keyboard folio, the same feature existed to delete emails from your mailbox using the delete key.

Has anyone else experienced this issue and has anyone fixed it?

iPad, iPadOS 14

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 8:42 PM

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Answer 1

rboko

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Nov 23, 2020 7:18 PM in response to uuklanger

I have a 12.9” iPad Pro with Apple keyboard, same here. With 14.1, the Delete key worked only under certain sequences, which I learned.

My MacBook Pro has been sitting in the Houston repair facility for 10 days now, how I miss it. Having to use the iPad as my only computing device is very frustrating in light of the claims that the same app runs in the same way. I can’t set up email rules on the iPad, and so am inundated with spam. SHIFT-CMD-J seems to remove move the email to Junk. The inconsistency is driving me crazy.

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rboko

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Nov 23, 2020 9:13 PM in response to rboko

A caveat on SHIFT-CMD-J working. Instead of moving to the next email after deletion, the focus moves two emails down - most of the time. Sometimes it moves one up. In either case, there is no way to handle my emails quickly using the keyboard.

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RPBarnes

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Nov 11, 2020 10:53 AM in response to uuklanger

I have the same and no I cannot fix it. This is an iPadOS 14.2 issue. Gonna try to find a place to log the bug.

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Apple Smart Keyboard no longer deletes emails using delete key

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