Safari on iPad hangs when using external keyboard (iOS 17.3)

I’m on 17.3.1. and have this problem so far only in Safari, when I type a search or URL in the search/url bar.

• Safari hangs,
• the spinner wheel next to WIFI still spins,
• I need to force quite Safari and relaunch Safari

I cannot fully reproduce it, it happens only occasionally but often enough to be disruptive in my work flow.

iPad pro

Apple Magic Keyboard with Touchpad

Yay that’s great news ! I’m eagerly waiting for the 17.4 update, I hope it’s publicly released soon.

Hopefully good news. My wife comments every day that her iPad has become a useless paperweight since 17.3 given it was her daily device for most tasks.

Installed 17.4 last night in wife’s iPad which has been useless since 17.3.1, so far appears to resolve the issue. Let’s hope they don’t reintroduce with a later update.

I installed the iPadOS 17.4 yesterday and thankfully my keyboard issues have been resolved!

IOS 17.4 seems to have resolved this issue for me.

Experienced the same issue after iOS 17.4.1 upgrade

The Safari issue cleared up completely with iOS 17.4 and has not returned.

I have one thing for people to try if they are being significantly hindered. I can't say why it worked, and it is not a complete fix, but it made my problem more tolerable. Disconnect your current keyboard and connect to a different keyboard. Play with it a bit and see if you still have freezes (I did). Then hook up your existing keyboard at the same time and use them both while both are connected a few times, then disconnect the second keyboard.

On my system, I went from having consistent, regular freezes to having only occasional problems. Safari is back to being usable, and I can do app updates without disconnecting my keyboard.

I don't know anything about the iPad architecture, but it seems like this problem is caused by some sort of resource conflict between the keyboard and network service, and my completely unsubstantiated guess is that plugging in two keyboards at the same time causes some resources to be re-allocated.

I decided to download and install the latest public b3ta iPad OS and that has cured it. So looks like there is a fix - it may come in a point update to the current version first but the current public b3ta version has a fix.

I use an iPad and Apply magic Keyboard. When in the previous iPadOS version, I still used it normally when connecting the iPad to an external keyboard.
But from iPadOS version 17.3, every time I connect the iPad to an external keyboard, Apple Note, Safari, gmail, Microsoft office, and many other applications freeze when using the external keyboard.
I'm really angry about this, my work depends entirely on the iPad, to write this line of text I had to disconnect the iPad from the Apple magickeyboard and use the iPad's virtual keyboard.

I use an iPad and Apply magic Keyboard. When in the previous iPadOS version, I still used it normally when connecting the iPad to an external keyboard.
But from iPadOS version 17.3, every time I connect the iPad to an external keyboard, Apple Note, Safari, gmail, Microsoft office, and many other applications freeze when using the external keyboard.
I'm really angry about this, my work depends entirely on the iPad, to write this line of text I had to disconnect the iPad from the Apple magickeyboard and use the iPad's virtual keyboard.