My wireless/bluetooth keyboard won't type letters in message boxes/documents on both the iphone and ipad with voiceover activated. The arrow keys and all other keys work just not the ability to type the letters, are there hotkeys or something I docu

I had this with my iPad Air 2 since updating to IOS 11. The keyboard worked as normal with other devices, but I couldn’t use the letters on the wireless apple keyboard with my iPad (number and special function keys worked).

I restarted my iPad and it’s now working fine.

One easy way to fix it is the following:

close all the apps who are running using the app switcher

press and hold the power button on your aapple Bluetooth keyboard it will turn off the device.

re start the apple Bluetooth keyboard doing the same process mention above.

don't forget on the edit body text hit left and right arrow key on the same time,

quick mav off.

it works for me.

hi. first off, don't try anything about closing apps and all that, unless you make sure you've turned off quick nav to type. for some strange reason, in iOS 8, you can't type text into a edit field, if you don't turn that off. that's by pressing the left and right arrows together. if this isn't the problem, then i'd try toggling off the keyboard, then toggle off bluetooth on your device, then back on, and finally turn the keyboard back on.

I started having this problem in iOS 10 and now still in iOS 11. Very frustrating.