apple bluetooth keyboard w/iPhone 4 -- SEND text message?

I'm in the same boat as everyone else...looking all over the internet, newsgroups and Apple forums for a remedy to this lack of a "send" key or combo on my bluetooth keyboard.

It's really a bad oversight that should be remedied. I know it's NOT windows, but in windows you can invoke almost any button or menu or device by using some combination of keystrokes and there's usually an underscore under the ALT activated character. This type of control only makes sense. I don't see how it could not be available in the iPad/Wireless keyboard combo.

I guess I'll head over to the feedback page and ask them to add it the ability to hit the SEND button from an Apple wireless keyboard while using the native iMessage client in iOS and I suggest everyone do likewise.

I'll send feeback as well.

Anyone found a fix yet?

I've tried... fn+enter or space, con+enter or space, alt+enter or space, com+enter or space

and all the combination you can think of, consist of fn, con, alt, com, shift, and enter or space.

this is ridiculous. You bought a $600 phone and $50 BT keyboard, and you cannot "send" message. God D it.

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Help, I'd really like a keyboard combo to 'send' . Be it in Mail or iMessage or anything (I'm on an iPad opposed to an iPhone) Can you folks at Apple look at creating a decent keyboard combo for iOS 6?

scarrab666 wrote:

Can you folks at Apple look at creating a decent keyboard combo for iOS 6?

As has been mentioned previously in this thread, you're not talking to Apple here. This is a user-to-user forum. If you want Apple to know your concerns, use the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I vote for the FN + EJECT button! Or, better yet, just the EJECT button!

Robert Grandmaison wrote:

I vote for the FN + EJECT button! Or, better yet, just the EJECT button!

Don't tell me, tell Apple using the link I provided. I have no problem tapping the send button on the screen.

Oh I regularly give user feedback via the feedback page!

Good. I've seen change happen before, in part, at least, to concerted feedback campaigns.

It seems so silly and lazy of Apple to not add one teensy bit of code so that hitting function+return gives you a send command in Messages. I hope this is fixed in IOS 6. Either that or I am jailbreaking this thing!

Nope, no luck. I'm on iOS 6.01 iPhone 5 and nothing I've tried worked as a send button. *****!

here is a link to the VoiceOver option. it does work, but I felt like I was sniffing glue while trying to learn it.

http://decadentwaste.net/2011/03/navigate-using-a-bluetooth-keyboard-on-your-ios -device/

i printed out all of the commands and some that i found on other pages and wrote the first 5 pages or so of Moby Dick. The went back and capitalized every 3rd word. Still fell like I'm sniffing glue, but at least it's Elmer's now.

Hope that helps,

i still do not get it, why there is no send option implemented in ios for bluetooth keyboard. it just does not make sense to switch between the iphone and the keyboard. i mean being able to fire up certain apps with keyboard is another thing. but a send shortcut for a bt keyboard, is elemental. can anyone at @ apple give me a hint why this is not possible? if not, please include it in the next release.

thank you very much.

itun@rraw wrote:

can anyone at @ apple give me a hint why this is not possible? if not, please include it in the next release.

Apple doesn't repsond here. Use the feedback link posted above to let them know how you feel.

Ocean20, this worked for me. Shift+Command+D worked to send emails and txts. I'm using a wireless Kensignton keyboard. Thanks for the tip.