iPadOS 16.1 Installed Hardware Keyboard Issue

[*88Keys]

Installed iPadOS 16.1 today on iPad Pro (2018) 12.9 64gb wi-fi only. iPad is set up for US English and I use the magic keyboard (the one with trackpad). Immediately after updating I could no longer type in Hungarian. It turned out in Settings/General/Keyboard/Hardware Keyboard the Hungarian keyboard was reset/mapped to US English. This was most surely due to the upgrade as I was typing in Hungarian prior to the update and had not visited those settings since the very first time I set it up about 1 year ago. So beware all you additional language users! And best wishes.

 

[Mockletoy]

Also having problems with external keyboard languages. I’m using a Nordic Logitech Combo Touch with my M1 iPad 12.9 and I can no longer reliably change input languages. Hitting either CTRL-SPACE or the globe key will bring up the input language chooser as normal, but switching between English and Svenska doesn’t do anything most of the time. It’ll say I’m in English (as I am now) but I’ll get the extra Swedish vowels when I type instead of

; ‘ [

Of course, right now I can’t type those extra Swedish vowels at all because my keyboard is locked to English input even when it says it’s not.

What was truly odd was that after the update, when I found things had gone awry, under Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Hardware Keyboard my English input was set to ”English (US) : Croatian” … and, I mean, what? I’ve never typed a word of Croatian in my life. That was just super random and silly.

And even now, the keyboard is just weird.

Right now I‘m set to English (US), but if I type a quotation mark it’s … wrong? It’s hard to explain. For instance, if I want to type a quote starting with an E, I type “ + E and instead of ”E I get this:

Ë ë

… and, what the hell even is that?

I have to type the quotation mark, hit space to cancel whatever “helpful“ weirdness it’s trying to accomplish, and then type the E. I can also get this

ö Ö ä Ä

by typing a quotation mark and then O or A … so I’m guessing it’s trying to help me input special characters after I type an opening quotation mark? Which I didn’t ask for and don’t want, because I just want to type in plain old regular English when I have my keyboard set to English.

And ü and Ë aren’t even letters in Swedish, the only other language I have installed, so …. Wow, what a fustercluck. I’ve been trying to stay upbeat in the face of Apple’s many, many software issues over the last while, but good lord, this is just amateur hour stuff.

I have work to do, but I’ve been trying to fix this stupidity for over an hour now and I’m getting nowhere. I suppose I could call AppleCare and have them take several hours to not help me even a little bit …

Edit to add: Okay, the quotation mark thing is fixed. Turns out, it had randomly set my hardware keyboard from US to US (International PC). Once I undid that, it started working as expected again.

In the process of fixing that, I made a new and super stupid discovery. Right now I can type ;’[ … if I switch to Swedish, those keys give me ö ä å, as they should. Note that I was able to switch just then, but only once.

Here is where it gets really weird.

It turns out it IS switching my hardware keyboard input language, but not in the app I am currently using. Right now, in Safari, I can only type ö ä å, but if I switch to another app, I can type using the US layout … until I switch in THAT app, at which point I will be stuck on whatever I switch to.

Another weird thing is, it is changing the spelling dictionaries appropriately, from English to Swedish or vice versa, but only once per app … right now it Safari is using the English dictionary with the Swedish keyboard layout.

This is such a mess. The thing is, I used several of the later iPadOS 16.1 betas and never saw any of this craziness.

 

[vilmotz]

The same is here

 

[metavoros]

Totally the same issue here... iPad Pro 2021.... So annoying.

 

[TrappedSheep]

This issue persists on iPadOS 16.1.1 as well. I am having same issue with Czech keyboard, tried to disconnect Smart Folio from my iPad Pro 11” with M1, remove all foreign keyboards, restart device and add keyboards back, but no change, all keyboards act like they are US keyboard. I will try factory reset, but this a little bit low.

 

[Wando64]

I am holding off installing iPadOS 16 as I rely heavily on keyboard languages.
Has there been any progress on this for anyone, any workaround, or is this still unusable?

Thanks

 

[Zizouu]

I had the same issue with Azerbaijani. Head to Settings/General/Keyboard/Hardware Keyboard and from there click on the whatever foreign language you wanna use and set it to that specific foreign language. By default, it's set to U.S. English.

Hope this helps.

 

[LightshaftX]

I finally found the workaround. You should go to Settings > Accessibility > Keyboards and Turn Off “Full Keyboard Access” option.

It seems that bug appears when user tries to navigate with keyboard. An outline appears around the app and the input field. I discovered that if such outline presented on the screen, the language won’t switch inside an app with 100% reproduction.