I do not believe the 'flick keyboard' is available on the 12.9. I can only assume Apple is thinking that it already has the numbers keys listed across the top.
I did “enable flick” in settings and it works on the row of numbers on the onscreen Smart Keyboard. Flick up on the number and the symbol will type in. That may be what I saw but I’m sure it was the flick keyboard I see on my wife’s 10.5 Pro. I was using One Note at the time. I’m still trying to get it to happen again.
That is correct the 12.9 has a 'flick up' not the 10.5 'flick down'. The 12.9 has always had the 'flick down'.
I tried several apps to see which keyboard pops up. My work app brings up the 10.5 Keyboard, all the others bring up the 12.9 keyboard. I have to agree that perhaps my work app is not optimized for iOS. I find it interesting that The 10.5 keyboard is in the iOs11 but user has no way of opening it. The app determines which keyboard to use. I also use SwiftKey. Used that for many years on my old Android devices. All keyboards work fine, this was more curiosity than anything. The one photo is the keyboard that appears for GMail. The other is my work app. Same IPP 12.9
