iPad won't recognize JIS bluetooth keyboard

Wish to use a Japan-made bluetooth JIS keyboard with the iPad to match what I have in the office on a Mac.


On a JIS keyboard double-quote is shift-2, @ is next to P, and colon is next to semicolon.


I added software keyboards Japanese-Romaji, Japanese-Kana, and English (Japan). In the Hardware Keyboard setting, the only Japanese keyboard is 'Kana' and it's available only for Japanese-Romaji and Japanese-Kana. Anyway, both of them give a @ for shift-2 instead of a double-quotation.


A forum post from 2010 said that he solved this issue by putting his iPad language to Japanese. I tried forgetting and adding the keyboard with both language and location settings set to Japan but same issue.


I know Apple has a JIS-laybout bluetooth keyboard. Is that the only Japanese keyboard the iPad supports?


Tried with both an iOS 11.2 iPad Pro and an old iPad mini on iOS 10.

Posted on Nov 11, 2017 9:48 AM

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