iPad onscreen keyboard is inserting letters which are adjacent to what I'd typed

Hi, apologies for this slightly belated reply. I think I too had initially thought that it might be an error on my part, but it has now happened so much, across so many apps, that I'm totally sure that it's an error with the software. It's good to know that you're experiencing this problem too though (that I'm not the only one)... about your idea of trying to repeat a problematic word to see if it will repeat the same mistake, I have indeed been able to get it to misinterpret the same word twice in a row: in typing the word 'software', it interpreted this as 'softeare' twice consecutively. And, in the past (although on a slightly different version of iOS 9, maybe iOS 9.3.2), when I've tried to type the word 'table' into a Word document, three times in a row it's been interpreted as 'yanle'.

I'd be interested to know what you find after examining your typing for a while, to see if it's a human error or if the software is also buggy for you as well?

Thanks! I've done this, and will post back about whether it's changed the typing situation!

Hi, just wanted to let you know, unfortunately I don't think the reset has helped, as the iPad is still inserting letters that are adjacent to what I'd actually typed (this has happened many times while writing this reply alone)! But thanks for the suggestion!

Hi Bob, thanks for this suggestion. In the reply I'm writing to you now, I have disabled everything in Keyboard settings, and so far there are no errors to report (if there had been any errors whilst typing this, I would have left them in as you suggested!). I will monitor this situation closely, and write back if any typing errors continue to occue (actually, I think that last word there was the first one, but the errors seem a lot more increquent now that I'd disabled all options!). [Obviously another error in the last sentence!]

A quick update -- I've gone and done a bit of typing in Mail, and even with all Keyboard settings turned off in Settings, this issue is still ocurring (although maybe a bit less frequently than before)! [In this note I was typing, the word "bit" was inserted as "big", which I corrected.] Thanks for your help!

Aloha Bob, sorry for this late reply, I think it's possible that time zones don't match (I saw your message in the morning here in Australia but have only just had a chance to send a reply now)... It's interesting that you're leaning towards human error in your case... Personally, I have just tried one of your suggestions (I'm now using the US English keyboard instead of the Australian English keyboard), and, after typing with it for a little bit (both some test typing in Mail, and this reply I'm typing now), it seems that this problem is happening more or less as frequently as it was with the Australian English keyboard which I was using earlier... as it stands, the situation seems to be fairly workable (that is, if it stuffs up this infrequently, then I can probably live with it), but the next thing I'm going to try is to Reset All Settings, as you suggested, and, depending on how workable things are after that, I may finally decide to try a third-party keyboard like SwiftKey! Thanks again for your assistance, and I'll let you know how I go!

Hi ChitlinsCC,

Apologies for this late reply, I've just had some things to do! Just to quickly answer your questions, yes, it almost certainly started after the upgrade to iOS 9, as iOS 8 prior to that had been perfect (in this regard anyway)! It happens with all keys, and in fact can happen in any "direction", so yes, it varies! 🙂 (Interestingly, it can involve punctuation keys too, so pressing 'm' might insert a comma or space character). Also as an example, typing an 'i' might result in a 'u', 'k' or 'o'.

Also, about what the suggestion bar does when (for instance) the system recognises "thanks" as "yhanks", it seems to vary from time to time... sometimes it will correctly suggest "thanks", but at other times, only the left part of the quicktype suggestion bar will be active, just saying "yhanks" in double-quotes. Also, as Bob had suggested, I had indeed tried with all keyboard settings disabled, but, although this problem may have happened a bit less then, it did still occur.

I am just about to try reset settings to see if this makes a difference to the situation, but I apologise that some of my responses to what you'd asked had been a bit brief, because I've had to fight against the iPad a heck of a lot to send this reply, which has made the writing process really difficult (so I had to abandon previous drafts)! So I apologise for that, but thanks anyway for taking an interest and for your questions (hope my answers have been sufficient)!