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Originally Posted by tomsem
At least when I’m using Universal Control from my Mac (or have a Mac keyboard attached to iPad), the Eject key (of all things) on the Mac’s keyboard reveals and hides the virtual keyboard on my iPad Pro, so I can then long press on the VK do get the diacritic options.
There does not seem to be keyboard shortcut to reveal/hide the VK in iOS 15. Some older advice seems to be ‘press down arrow to show VK, up arrow to hide it’ but that does not seem to work any more. Seems you have to tap the language selector in menu bar and then select Show keyboard.
But it’s all more convoluted than it would be to just implement the macOS behavior, with which you can select a diacritic with the keyboard alone.
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Although I've got a Logitech keyboard case on my iPad Air 2020, I so rarely use it that I hadn't even noticed the lack of this diacritical marks feature on an external keyboard. I'll have to test this evening, assuming I remember. I know I can get it to work on the popup iPad keyboard.
One of my major complaints about the current iPadOS is that typing with the popup screen keyboard is such a bleeping mess. It takes me probably four times as long to type text. Trying to use it with Excel or Numbers is enough to cause me to literally yell in anger. Even using the external keyboard, the process is so very frustrating. I realize the non-Pro iPads are likely seen by Apple as little more than entertainment and social networking platforms. But the so-called "Pro" models are advertised as laptop killers, yet even they have a crap keyboard system and crap file system that slows down their ability to do anything like office work, programming, professional photo and video editing, etc. I find myself relegating my iPads to little more than web surfing, multimedia viewing, and reading. Actually trying to do anything productive on them is a lesson in futility. They have more than enough power for these tasks, but iPadOS simply won't get the job done.
Every office-like task is über kluge. I get tired of the screen scrolling every time I select a spreadsheet cell, then I have to scroll to see it again. Enough with the million and one hand gestures already, especially for those of us with arthritis! I still like my iPads, but I'm frustrated that they are so very limited by Apple's lack of imagination and/or willingness to turn them into a true computing platform. I think the Pro models are an absolute joke without a decent iPadOS to take advantage of their power.