disable "undo" button in pages for iPad

SandiMacD wrote:

For some reason I cannot edit any of my posts today, The drop down button offers only the ability to LINK.

You can only edit a post within 15 minutes of having posted it.

I really hope apple sees the thousands of views in these 2 posts and does something about it so we have the option of disabling or removing the new undo key by the spacebar.

They won't. This is a user-to-user forum. Their participation here is minimal. Submit your feedback on this page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I posted feedback on the Apple store site. Then I downloaded and tried a number of keyboards.

The best I could find was Google's. For me I needed large keys to see, others were just too busy, too dark or the keys were too small for my vision. It has a glide option that works well if you don't hold a bigger iPad with 2 hands. You have to rest it and use one hand to glide with one finger across the keys, then stop on the letter that spells the word. It's pretty cool because it inserts apostrophes and space between words and double consonants even with a single finger stop. It also autocorrects.

The spell corrector is top notch for 2 thumb typing and so far has done well at anticipating the correct words in addition to correcting spelling in my intended words. I had turned off Apple's auto correct spelling but this one seems to be better at it. For some reason, with two thumb typing I used to hit the M key often instead of the space bar. The Google keyboard auto removed the M and recognized that a space was needed instead. It also auto capitalizes the letter I when typing first person.

It has the UNDO/REDO icons in the left upper corner along with a clipboard and bold, italics, and underline options in the right upper corner. It can be used without granting full access unless you want to search the internet using the Google icon on the keyboard.

The only thing I found lacking is the dictation microphone icon. In the settings, keyboard menu, I dragged the Google glide keyboard to the top as my first choice and put the default apple one at the bottom under the emoji keyboard. Now I can switch between them if I want to dictate.

For what it's worth, that pesky button seems to be gone in landscape on the iPhones. I found it more problematic there.

You may also want to consider using a different keyboard. There are lots of third party keyboards available.

Best of luck.

I have lost hundreds of paragraphs of typing with that undo key which l hit because it suddenly appeared where my thumb thinks the space bar still is. I can't get those paragraphs back with the undo key or redo key, instead it only recovered the first word or two!

I also had problems adjusting to the numbers and punctuation on the letters keys. I would try the swipe down 2 or 3 times and often hit the key below it.

The apostrophe, quotes, exclamation, and question mark keys were the worst offenders.

I gave up and went back to using the number keyboard but that is where the new undo key resides just next to the space bar. So instead of placing punctuation, I would undo paragraphs of typing.

For some reason I cannot edit any of my posts today, The drop down button offers only the ability to LINK.

There is another post on this question here: Undo button is killing me

I really hope apple sees the thousands of views in these 2 posts and does something about it so we have the option of disabling or removing the new undo key by the spacebar.

Yes, I have given Apple Feedback twice already on this issue and referenced that I did so in my earlier posts. I don't use this forum much anymore but when it showed up in my search results, I logged in. I hope my solution offers a bit of relief to those frustrated, like myself, who need another keyboard option.

+1 ... I really don't even see the point of this button, when does one write a page of information and decide "it sure would be helpful to have an undo button next to the period symbol right about now"? Isn't that what "select all" and "backspace" are for?