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Hello guys, I’m reaching out because I don’t know how this on-screen hardware keyboard control is called and I would like to know if there’s a way to turn it off
as you can see it takes a little chunk on the screen that I can live with but, it’s a minor inconvenience that I would like to address.
Thankyou!
iPad Pro, iPadOS 16
polloman1508,
If you go to Settings > General > Keyboard, try turning off 'Predictive' and 'Shortcuts' to see if that resolves the issue for you.
Also, if you go to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver, is that turned on or off? If it's on and you turn it off, does that seem to make a difference?
Thanks!
polloman1508,
If you go to Settings > General > Keyboard, try turning off 'Predictive' and 'Shortcuts' to see if that resolves the issue for you.
Also, if you go to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver, is that turned on or off? If it's on and you turn it off, does that seem to make a difference?
Thanks!
Hello polloman1508,
We believe that the following user guide will be helpful for managing your iPadOS onscreen and external keyboard settings: Adjust the onscreen and external keyboard settings on iPad - Apple Support
Best regards.
Thank you Drew, but none of the options helped me, the first and second one applies to the onscreen keyboard, checked them anyways but it was not what I’m looking for, the third one I didn’t knew it existed but it seems quite useful on a broken screen iPad, I might use it if necessary but fortunately this iPad is in pretty good condition :)
Still, didn’t hide the floating controls. The last one is like microsoft’s sticky keys…
so yeah, no success yet
This worked!. You need to turn off both settings, either of them will turn on the floating controls.
I didn’t had voice over turned on so I didn’t test that one out.
Thank you Sparks :)
Good afternoon polloman1508,
Happy to hear these two settings resolved your issue. Thanks for sharing with the community!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Hardware keyboard, floating control
