IOS 8.1.2 - keyboard doesn't appear

I'll go one better! Trying to login into this forum, the keyboard refused to appear in the login field but appeared in the password field.. Repeatedly! I had to do a work around to get in! Furthermore, on Facebook the keyboard will not appear in the first level of comments, but will appear for second level, replies to a comment. There is no sense in this! In my browser, when I click the url bar I get no keyboard until I first clear all content! I had trouble with the keyboard in previous versions of the iOS, but not for a good while until the latest update, which installed overnight while I was asleep... This is annoying on a device that costs so much... Apple is getting worse! Users of other products don't seem to have these issues.... My wife is an Android user and almost never complains about her device.

How long has this been going on?
It is not a common complaint that I have seen on this forum at least and so wondering about any "fix" from Apple

Do you have any third party keyboards such as Swype downloaded?

I have not witnessed this behavior on my device, nor any of the others in my home. None of us however, have any 3rd party keyboards installed. I wonder if this is something that is unique to having them installed. I wonder if you removed the keyboards if you would see the same behavior?

I experience this issue from time to time and I can always get the keyboard back by going into another app which will show the keyboard and then returning to the app where the keyboard would not show up. It's frustrating but what can you do?

In the interest of troubleshooting a potential conflict - unless the fix suggested works for you - would you be willing to remove the the two extra keyboards you have and then seeing if the problem persists?

Thanks

I have this problem. I do NOT have any thirdparty keyboards installed.

glenfromdalllas wrote:

pardon my ignorance. But does anyone know if Apple knows about this issue and is working on it? No one here would know for sure, since we are users like you.

Is there a better place to provide feedback to Apple? Feedback to Apple goes to their feedback page, www.apple.com/feedback and then click on the appropriate subject.

Do apple employees actually look on here and respond or is it just all of us peers? Apple may look here, but in the TOS, it is stated they do not participate in the forum. This is classed as a user to user forum.

I've seen this behavior on a couple of different phones running iOS 8. What has resolved it on both was to Reset All Settings in Settings>General >Reset

The problem is that the keyboard just does not show up when I need to make a text input. Erratically. Though Not consistently enough that I can demonstrate the problem to the Apple technician. Particularly on Messages- New or Reply. (Whatsapp never has this problem) Usually a hard reboot solves the problem. But its a pain to reboot everytime. It makes me feel that Ive paid a small fortune for a sub standard phone and being punished for my loyalty to APPLE.

And I dont think this is a IOS8/ IOS8.1 problem. I had this problem on my older iPhone4 also, where there was no question about a 3rd party Keyboard. I use Iphone 6+/ 64GB/ IOS8.1 in Mumbai, India and also have TouchPal as the 3rd party keyboard.

RESET only solves the problem temporarilly. Anyone with a lasting solution? Thanks :-)

I just had a chat with Apple Support and they gave me some instructions that seem to have sorted my keyboard issue.

They ran diagnostics on my iPhone 6 and found that the Facebook App was using a lot of memory. It was using most of the device memory, also used by other apps. I deleted the FB app and also went to settings> Facebook> and deleted account. (You can re-install Facebook again)

Also you need to reset your device by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake power button on side until device reboots and the apple logo shows on your screen. You then need to reset all settings. Settings> General> Reset> Reset all settings

My keyboard appears now every time I go into iMessage and not just at random.

I too was experiencing this issue. I removed all 3rd party keyboards. The bitmoji one seemed to be the cause.

Trying to bring keyboard up using another app and bookmarking this. Sorry for any confusion.