Is it possible to remove the 'undo' button on the ios8 keyboard?

You cannot remove the key though you can install a different systemwide keyboard like Swype. However, you can "undo the undo" (restore the text). Shake your phone to display the undo menu. this has been present in iOS since the introduction of copy/paste in iOS 3 in 2011. The key, as you know, was introduced only on the new devices in iOS 8.

Same problem here. Yes, there is an effective Redo, but not the icon above the keyboard. Go to the 123 keyboard then to the #+= keyboard. There you will find a REDO key that will recover what you lost.

But the Undo key is still replacing the right 1/3 of the spacebar on the 123 keyboard. Until they fix that abomination, I recommend switching back to the abc keyboard before using the spacebar.

Yahoo! This pertains to the iPad Air 2. I’m not aware of how the iPhone keyboard is formatted or on older iPads. After losing yet another long email I decided to do a search to remedy the problem of the Undo button. I landed here. This irritant occurs when in the numbers keyboard. Grrr! I shook the darn thing as suggested to no avail. So, I decided to write an email with numbers included. I hit the Undo button...everything disappeared as I knew it would. I’m studying the keyboard to find a Redo button...not there. Hmm? I decided to click on one of the curved arrows in the upper left of the keyboard. Voila’! The text returned! I clicked the other curved arrow...the text disappeared again. Oh, Happy Days!! All is right with the world...the iPad that is!

Solution 1: if you have shortcuts enabled (Settings-General-Keyboard-Shortcuts) you will see the symbols for undo and redo at the upper left corner of keyboard. You can use redo to undo an inadvertent undo.

Solution 2: if shortcuts are not enabled, the undo key (magically) appears when you hit the “.?123” shift key. That’s what causes the problem. Using ”reverse magic”, you can then hit the, appropriately named (because you just said it) “#+=“ Key...which turns the undo key (where space bar was) into the redo key, which will magically restore your lost missives.

Remember...when something goes wrong, you’re probably not the first to get dinged. A ready solution Might be as near as the closest search bar (or Google).

Those aren’t solution. Most of the time the undo occurs several words before its noticed so using the undo/redo arrows don’t work necause they don’t cache or store a resonble history like most editors do. The fact that we have those arrows just make this auotmatic appearing button even more stupid. As a programmer I understand when creating a gui its nice to make it intuative and addsptive to you needs with out action but this undo button is just aggrevatinG and the solution offerred aren’t really a solution IMHO. Adding another keyboard as suggested earlier does work but Swip takes up a little too much real estate, it locks up and has a few other annoying quirks but it is better than typing 20 words and noticing everything or a good portion just disappeared so you have to go back figure out what thought you wrote that were lost.

Remove the 'undo' button please!!!

Ever since iOS 11 on my iPad, as I type in three different languages, but even in English, I have lost a whole lot. But the worst of all is the 'UNDO' button now right at the bottom right near the space bar. I inadvertently hit it regularly and lose huge swathes of cerefully composed and considered thoughts that are difficult to rethink. Whilst there is a 'redo' button, there has been a 'dumbing down' of keypads. We now have to go upper and lower case and other cases to find exclamation marks, question marks, commas, mulitipe full stops...so whilst finding those, I can press a button that causes me to lose my text even after finding the 'redo' button. My question is what the #@#* does an 'undo' button achieve??? For me it is a nuclear button that I have to avoid whilst in a second case....if only I could disable it altogether!!!

As someone who has to write a lot professionally, it costs me a massive loss of creativity, let alone time. The hegemony of this button drives me nuts.

Any solutions from anyone?

I have a problem with this “UNDO“ also. The problem is the width of the Space Bar gets changed to accommodate the “UNDO” key. When you’re typing along and you go to a number, you must be careful and watch that you don’t hit the UNDO. Now, you must have “shake to undo” enabled, stop typing, pick up the iPad, shake it, and activate the REDO button, return to your entry, and pray you don’t make the same mistake again. It’s very annoying!!! What’s needed is a way to disable the UNDO, Just like you can disable the “shake to undo“. Give us the option.

The undo feature (shaking the iPhone ) don't restore the text that many time I deleted accidentally inside the application Mai with this new button that really is very annoying, the worst change introduces by Apple so far, I don't like text anymore in my iPhone, apple used to was the best in user experience , but recently is giving backwards steps, many bugs and issues to the users even advanced users... Waiting answer or update !!!!

same here, many times i lost the whole text entered.. the iphone 6 is the worst iphone ever. I had every model since iphone 3. Same with the location of the power button. Many times i wanted to take a photo and locked the iphone instead. I think the perfection of these magic devices will go, year by year, because steves no longer here. I think he would have never released such an iphone when he was the CEO. for me the only readon i still have an iphone is the eco system

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I fully agree. It's an absolute useless and annoying button. I'm a man, I have big thumbs!

This xy@#!!! button has costs me - every single day - a messages and has such a frustration potential that i truly consider not to buy anymore an iPhone if that button stays.

Totally agree here. Find it a little ironic that the thing I most often want to undo, is undo. But it can't be undone! :-)

I accidentally pressed that button often enough that I figured I must be doing something wrong. When I found out what was going on I tried searching ways to customize the keyboard to remove the key or disable it – which lead me to this thread.

Suggestion 1: Remove the key. I thought shake was weird, but at least it rarely happened by accident (for me at least).

Suggestion 2: I like the swipe function for the keyboard that turns it into a mouse. But maybe there's a gesture (up/down swipe?) that could reveal keys that are dangerous when accidentally pressed? Or turn the undo button into a button that reveals double height undo/redo buttons that slide in from the left.

Suggestion 3: Voice activated? "Hey Siri, undo!" :-)

Suggestion 4: Make undo, redo-able? E.g. Shake to redo an undo. (FWIW, This was the first thing I tried).

Suggestion 5: Make the default behavior for the undo button more discrete. The thing completely wipes out entire paragraphs. Maybe have it undo one word at a time or some number of keystrokes (10) at a time or something?

Thanks for considering.

Why mess With the keyboard? Change for the sake of change? The undo key is a disaste. It certainly hasn’t made my experience more immersive (whatever the **** that means). Please don’t fix features when they perform perfection. Add bells and whistles till the cows come home, just don’t play with something as basic as my keyboar. Venting complete...

Since ios 11 I have honestly nearly broke my ipad in half and tossed it in the river. I cancelled my plans to buy another of these monstrocities for xmas. This godamn undo buttn jumps up underneeath my thumb unseen then "blink" - EVERYTHING is EFFING GONE!!! I am a man with big fingers and I am DONE now and forever with iPad. This is ******** to own a device that works fine the way it is then you put such a RIDICULOUS feature that has ZERO value and destroys PARAGRAPHS of typng!

I,am finished with iPad. This unit in my hand is gonna get the sledgehammer. I am getting an android.

I totally agree!!!! Typing in iOS 11 is brutal.

Please Apple fix this and don’t replace half of the space bar with a useless undo button that is inadvertently hit repeatedly continually erasing any typing.

Also, moving the location of the hypen and other characters is super annoying. Please don’t force us to have relearn how to type with every iOS update!

Any fixes or solutions would be really appreciated.

Took me a while to work out what was happening. Thought it was a bug in ios11 but when typing my numbers my natural reaction was to hit space, which is UNDO! Greeeat work messing up the user experience. Can’t say I’ve ever undone anything when typing, but look top left - 2 little undo and redo buttons already there. Don’t need another one.

Lets keep eel the space bar the same length all the time eh?!!? or have an option to remove the undo button in the preferences.

likewise was gonna toss this iPad when I had this happen.

what next, switch qwerty around too?

long time Apple user. Miffed.