System wide keyboard combination for “ESC” on iPad Pro removed with iPadOS 17 using iPad Pro Magic Keyboard - what’s my alternative?
Hi!
With Apple’s launch of iPadOS 17 they for some unimaginable reason removed the option to press CMD+”.” (Period) to mimic the non-existent ESC-key on the iPad Pro 12.9” Magic Keyboard (4th generation).
This option was a must when using auto-correct as if you can’t use the keyboard to “decline” the suggestion you need to use the mouse for it. That very quickly gets extremely annoying if the auto-correct suggestion is wrong.
I’ve opened an issue with Apple’s tech support for this, but when the tech didn’t find any solution after a week he simply just stopped answering me and gave no further explanation.
I’ve tried everything the tech suggested, even completely wiped the iPad Pro and did a fresh install of iPadOS 17. Nothing helped to get it back. I’ve tried changing CAPS to ESC in Modifier Keys but it does nothing for declining auto-correct.
In some applications it actually seem to do mimic ESC, so perhaps it’s the iPadOS 17’s auto-correct that’s stopped working with ESC?
Anyone else noticed this? Does it exist a solution?
Here’s an article explaining more of how it used to work originally.
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Here’s an article explaining how to modify CAPS to work as ESC.
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