iPad 11th gen A16 weird key flick issue

Key flick has nothing to do with Long Press. The later is supposed generate the Accent Menu Pop Up, so you can type accented characters.

Key flick is when you swipe down on a key with your finger, without really pressing.

lefteris177 wrote:

with long press I get random weird char (as per video)

That is what iOS has always done for the last 15 years or so. The chars aren't really "random weird", they are the standard accented charcters which users need to type Latin-script European languages without changing the keyboard.

I don't know of any way that you could have used press and hold on iOS to generate other than those accented characters in the past, or of any way to change that behavior currently.

Key Flicks was added to iOS with version 11 about 8 years ago, and has always involved flicking down on the keys (not press and hold).

I wonder if you might have been using the GBoard app keyboard. It does provide access to numbers via long press on the top row of letter keys.

lefteris177 wrote:

disabling the flick toggle in settings also removes the ability to long press

I can't duplicate that, the accent menu always comes up with press and hold. Normally I don't think there is any way to disable the accent menu, which some users would like to do. Are you also on ios 18.3.2?

Regardless, the issue is still there, and any actual suggestion would be really appreciated.

Are you saying that with the flick toggle on, swiping your finger downward on the Q key does not produce 1?

Do you have this problem is all apps including Safari, Mail, Messages, Notes, Pages?