iOS 11 lanscape keyboard!!!

I assume you are talking about how they have squished the keys together? If so, I am finding this highly annoying as well. It's my single biggest gripe about ios 11. I don't know if this was done on purpose or if it's a bug, but they've essentially broken the functionality of the keyboard in landscape mode in my opinion. My thumbs are now always inadvertently hitting the "return" and "emoji" keys. Typing now has become almost unbearable. Apple please fix this!!!

Not only are the additional buttons missing in the keyboard, it's the fact that they have changed the sizing and placement of the return key and made the spacebar smaller. It really screws up the typing flow.

Iwaskevinfirst wrote:

But if Apple is going to sell apps that require the now missing keys such as Pages and Keynote, they should not remove these keys. Using Pages or Keynote or any app that does any sort of text editing on these phones is now kind of pointless.

Good point, especially with Pages, where a comma is occasionally appropriate.

The first picture in your previous post is what I see when I put my 7 Plus in landscape. Apple has made a significant change in the keyboard. It works well for me as I know longer keep obliterating entire texts by accidentally hitting, I think it was a return key on the left on the old keyboard. However, I can see why some people wouldn't like it. Fortunately, there are plenty of options out there.

I just downloaded GBoard and it's great. It solves all the problems with the missing keys and makes the keyboard fit the screen much better. Kudos to Google for solving an apple problem that appears not to concern them at all. I am a happy camper now. Try it.....it's great!!!!!

Chill750 wrote:

Getting the cursor with the long press is just not as fast as having the forward and back keys. they need to be returned!

Did you submit your feedback to Apple suggesting that? No one here can do anything about it.

Did you try downloading a third party keyboard that has those options right now?

I message in Landscape a lot . It's not only missing essential keys like comma and full stop that force one more step to be made frequently while typing that is so annoying, but the space-bar itself must have been a little compressed. Now if I take my eyes of the keyboard while I type, I constantly hit return instead of space bar and end up with multiple rows of one or two words all capitalized at the beginning and then have to go back and manually fix it all! As a previous feedback said, Not cool Apple, not cool! And why can I not put quote marks around that last phrase? Because ever since installing iOS eleven, periodically the number and emoji buttons refuse to work and denies me access to all punctuation attached to that screen also! Only the exclamation and question marks are available on the letter screen! So uncool! So frustrating! So totally user unfriendly that these issues could tip me into the android phone and tablet camp later. No emoji to use to express my level of frustration with it as the button is currently still not working!

For iPhone, no. For iPad, yes.

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Here are pictures of the old and new keyboards, the missing keys are very helpful and I hope they fix this.

And the new terrible keyboard:

Here's the keyboard that I get when I'm accessing the web (again edge-to-edge).

Just to let you know that this screenshot comes from my iPhone 7 running iOS 11.0.1

Regards

Giulio

Same problem. Don't know how to fix it. 😟

I’m having the same issue. Don’t like the extra space (to the left and right) on my landscape keyboard on iOS 11.

Thanks for the feedback: very disappointing to see that this is the way it is supposed to look in iOS11.

A huge mistake indeed...