All iPads Safari search using the Magic Keyboard is a pain: Space bar = ENTER

[Kyle76]

A new phenomenon when using the Safari search bar with the Magic Keyboard is that the space key now triggers the enter function, so that if you’re trying to type a multi-word search phrase, as soon as you hit the space bar whatever you have typed is entered as the search. This is hugely annoying, requiring me to open the on-screen keyboard in order to do a search. Is there a workaround for this?

 

[vddobrev]

For me space key does not trigger search.

 

[Kyle76]

It did not for me until recently. Have I inadvertently changed some setting?

 

[Slartibart]

which iPad model? which iPadOS version?

for what’s worth: on 11” iPP 2020 and 2021 and iPadOS 15.1 I have no problems typing in multiword search phrases with spaces.

EDIT: does it work if you disconnect the MKB?

 

[papbot]

That’s not happening here. Maybe some modifier key function in Accessibility?

 

[Kyle76]

From researching, it looks like the problem is Switch Control, which moves me out of the search bar as soon as I use the space bar. I have gone into settings, but it is switched off. In fact, I can’t even turn it on to switch it back off. I may have to call support. It’s very annoying.