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iPad Ios 7.2 software update.

The latest ios 7.2 update has caused problems with iPad keyboards. Not the keyboard on your iPad screen, but all external Bluetooth keyboards.

Apple now know about this problem as there have been so many complaints about it. Bluetooth keeps switching itself “OFF” on the iPad for seemingly no obvious reason. and its a nightmare trying to get the external keyboard to sync with BlueTooth. I did find a way around the situation though.

I switch on my external bluetooth keyboard first, and then I switch on my iPad and I do a full reboot on my Ipad. I then sign into my iPad, choose the software I wish to use, email, Pages, QuickOffice or my diary and 9 out of 10 times my external keyboard has synced with my iPad bluetooth and I can start writing in any program immediately. I dont know if this will work successfully on all other external keyboards though. You could always try it if you have this problem and it might just possibly work for you.


Best of luck.


Created By on 26/05/2014

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