bluetooth keyboard crashing iOS7

I have this very same problem on with my iPad 3 with IOS 7.0.4. The crash only seems to happen after turning my Bluetooth keyboard on. I also have to wait for about three minutes for my iPad to reboot.

Also I forgot to mention that I did not have this issue with IOS 6.x

Same problem here with iPad Mini Retina and Apple BT keyboard. I've had it freeze 10 or more times in the past week.

Same problem with iPad 3 cellular (iOS 7.0.4) and Logitech solar folio keyboard. Randomly iPad frozen when I'm switch on keyboard. On ios 6 all worked great.

I contacted Apple Support and they do not seem to be aware of this issue. It has been officially reported. I was asked to unpair, re-discover, and re-pair my keyboard and then report back my findings. This may take several days as the IOS crashing issue does not happen everyday. Others may want to try this as well if they haven't already.

Well, that didn't take as long as I thought it would. I had a crash late last night, approximately 12 hours after I re-paired my keyboard. Here are my specs in case anyone cares to know (ah, Apple you should care):

iPad generation 3

IOS 7.0.4

Kensington bluetooth keyboard (came with Kensington folio)

I have exact the same problem. My Ipad 3 crashes every two three days. I have the same configuration.

IPAD3

IOS 7.4

Kensington bluetooth keyboard.

I have reset the IPAD but the crashes continued.

No solution yet?

I just developed a similar problem, but with a BT speaker. I play a sound blocking app all night via my Jambox. Suddenly, last night, it shut off, about 10 minutes after I turned it on. When I opened my iPad mini, I found a black screen. I turned it on via the power button (took a while to come on) and had the Apple reboot symbol, which stayed up forever. I finally hit the home button and it brought up my normal lock screen. I had to pair my Jambox again, started it up again and the same thing happened. I thought it might be the app, so I opened another background noise app and it happened again. I gave up after that. I had to listen to our Shiz Tzu snoring!

I forgot to point out that this is with the original mini, also running 7.0.4

I have the same problem, but it happens within just a few minutes of starting to use my keyboard

iPad 2

iOS 7.04

Targums Bluetooth keyboard

Additionally, mine has the annoying habit of timing out after 5 seconds of inactivity, and I have to hit the little "yes I want to use the Bluetooth keyboard, not the onscreen one" button every time I have to think about what I want to type. I don't know if that's specific to my keyboard, or if that's a setting I can fiddle with, but I think having to do that so often is why it only takes a few minutes for it to crash. It always happens after about the fifth time it times out and I push that button again. The timing out issue has always been there, and it's been an annoyance, but now that it makes the iPad crash, I'm about ready to start chucking things out the window.

Sorry, that's a Targus keyboard. Auto correct has some funny thoughts about things.

I have exactly the same issue. My specs are:

iPad Air

iOS 7.0.4

Logitech keyboard

same problem with ipad Air and ANKER BT keyboard.

iOS 7.0.4 crashes after switching on the keyboard when it tries to (re)connect.

Happens randomly - often it works flawless, sometimes it crashes.

Just adding a "me too", though in my case a new iPad Mini (retina) and actually an Apple Wireless Keyboard (brand new: i killed my old 1st gen one by leaving it on a shelf for months with batteries in it until I got the iPad and discovered my error). So no third-party keyboard firmware excuses. :-D

As others have reported; for me it seems that occasionally (not every time or it would be unusable) on waking the keyboard after it goes to sleep, the iPad crashes, completely unresponsive to anything short of a hard reset (power+home held down until it turns off, then turn on normally). (Side note: Not *quite* unresponsive: First time it happened I plugged it into a mac and it let me take a backup and sync, while the screen and buttons remained unresponsive; so I think the computer in the iPad's fine, just its primary IO device locks up.)

One thing: I *also* have the iPad paired to a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover. (First question: by any chance anyone else having this paired with more than one keyboard, even if only one is active at a time? In my case, the Apple one's for home, for full-speed typing; the Logitech one goes everywhere with the iPad.)

I haven't seen this issue happen with the Logitech. Or I *might* have seen it once; maybe early when I wasn't looking for the pattern so my memory's unreliable there. But it happens a lot with the Apple keyboard. One simple thought there is that the Apple keyboard has quite a short timeout before it goes into powersave (side-question: anyone know how to make it longer on an iPad?) so if the problem occurs on reconnection/wake-up, it's simply more *likely* to happen on a more narcoleptic keyboard.

Same problem.

Mini retina, virgin bt device: new apple keyboard.

Crashed in Pages after turning on bt and hitting a key. Presumably 'p' because it kept on repeating it for the few minutes it took the thing to shut down.

My second use of the keyboard, new today.