Remote app in iOS 7 doesn't bring keyboard when entering text.

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Remote app in iOS 7 doesn't bring keyboard when entering text.

I tried to use the remote app with my new iPad air with iOS 7 with and when I tried to make a search for a movie it won't bring the keyboard as before when entering text. The funny thing is that I have an old iPod 4th gen with iOS 6, and that one still brings the keyboard every time text needs to be entered, even still has the option to hide and bring out the keyboard. Is this feature gone forever in iOS 7? Or is missing and will be added later?

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Posted on Dec 26, 2013 8:47 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 26, 2013 10:15 PM in response to ErickSacramento

I had not noticed it until I read this post, but it looks like the keybaord feature has been removed from the remote app. There used to be a button to manually trigger the keyboard that is gone to, and the keyboard is no longer mentioned in the help content.

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Answer 2

Jan 2, 2014 7:26 PM in response to ErickSacramento

I used the remote app again today and I got really excited because it actually brought up a keyboard. However the iPad screen turned white and the keyboard was black. When I finished entering the text the screen remained white, all the buttons were gone with no option to go back to the previous menu. It looked liked the app crashed. I had to exit the app and restart again. This is really sloppy interface design. I tried to repeat the process but it doesn't bring up the keyboard anymore. Does anyone know of a good alternative to the remote app? I don't think Apple cares and this won't be fixed any time soon.

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Answer 3

Jan 2, 2014 7:50 PM in response to ErickSacramento

This is now fixed. The remote has two modes. It starts with an interface similar to iTunes to play music or videos from your library, on the top right side it has a keyboard (mine appeared greyed out and I was unable to activate it, but now works), and an axis which brings the other remote everyone is familiar with to select the icons on the tv screen. The other remote now has a small keyboard icon on the top right which didn't used to have before. I don't know what I did to activate it, however, it won't bring the keyboard automatically like before. Another way to bring the keyboard, if yours still stuck, is to highlight any of the letters in the menu, and swipe from right to left, the highlight will cursor will hide, swipe again and that brings up the keyboard. How? Why? Still a mystery to me, but I happy I can use remote again.

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