Hi,
Recently I installed iPadOS public beta and bought an external third party keyboard. The spacebar of the keyboard does not work properly on some applications including the native email app. When I clicked on the spacebar, it inputs newline instead of space. Also, I noticed I can input space by clicking on shift+spacebar or alt+spacebar.
I tried with another keyboard and same issues persists. Is this an issue from iPadOS public beta?
Anyone experiencing the same issues?
I have same issue but mine only started after most recent OS upgrade. I am using genuine Apple keypad with my iPad Pro.
Using the Keyboard Accessibility solution fixes one problem but creates another in my iPad. In my case turning the Keyboard Full Accessibility switch ‘on’ fixed the problem I was having with Facebook freezing (when trying to access Comments, for example). But it then created the problem of my keyboard’s space bar not working properly when using the Search function in Safari, for example. Must I choose between problems?
It seems if you are using a Magic Keyboard made from Apple, it’s better to have Full Keyboard Access off. I experimented with deactivating the command (and several others) that overrides the spacebar but the issue was still present in some apps and in terminal. Only when FKA is totally turned off does the spacebar function come back on my iPad Pro (iOS 15, iPad Pro 11in Gen 2). Also from what I’ve experienced, the Magic Keyboards (w/ numpad) loose no functionality when connected to the iPad while FKA is off.
Hope this update helps others. Basically;
Since this problem still persists, why has there not been a fix found? I, too, have to push shift+space to get an actual space. My iPad and logitec is less than 1 month old.
Experienced this issue using an iPad Air & apple external keyboard. Had no issues with the keyboard in any apps/email etc discovered the problem trying to write a paper in the “Pages” application, every time I would hit “Spacebar” it was as if I were hitting the “tab” button to go to the next link. Quick & easy fix! Do the following: Open “Settings”> “Accessibility” > “Keyboards” > “Full Keyboard Access” Turn this off! Once the full keyboard access is turned from “On” to “Off” the issue should resolve. Happy typing! Doing so without use of the space bar is virtually impossible lol.
Why Apple engineers are so stupid as to default to using the Space bar as the hotkey for Activate when Full Keyboard Access enabled? Didn't they ever test this with any application? Sigh!
Magic keyboard spacebar no longer works after update
This happened to me, if you open settings, scroll down to accessibility, click on the keyboard option and disable the option Full Acces Hope this helps :)
SAME tyvm :D
On iPad Pro with iPadOS 16.6. issue also fixed by unchecking the Full Keyboard Access, which is under Accessibility/Keyboards
Can´t see any solution to this besides disabling full access keyboard. I saw the Activate Function in commands and it was set up to Space. Cleared the key, and all worked just fine.
fixed it by disabling “Full Keyboard Access” (option in Settings/Keyboard). Thanks to whoever first suggested that! (Brilliant!)
