Comments on: How to turn your iPhone’s or iPad’s slide-to-text swipe keyboard on or off https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/ Tools and Fixes for Mac, iPad, iPhone & iWatch Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Joseph https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/#comment-1588331 Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:46:13 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77949#comment-1588331 Rather than waiting for Apple to fix this idiotic decision, just install the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard from the Apple store and swipe away on a full size keyboard,

]]> By: Elizabeth Jones https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/#comment-1469408 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 04:17:17 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77949#comment-1469408 In reply to Sherry D Davis, Ed.D..

Hi Dr. Davis,

Swipe to text only works on the floating iPad keyboard, not the full size keyboard. We don’t know why Apple made that decision but they did.

Try putting your keyboard in floating view by tapping the keyboard icon in the lower right corner of the full size keyboard and then on that smaller keyboard try swiping. It should work.

Just tested myself and it’s working fine on my iPad 11 inch Pro model with the latest iPadOS 13.3.1

]]> By: Sherry D Davis, Ed.D. https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/#comment-1469362 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:26:14 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77949#comment-1469362 I have the various toggles enabled to use swipe to text feature on my new gen 7 iPad and it still won’t swipe. It has the most up to date iOS updates (13….) wherever it is. I like this feature in my iPhone but it is not functioning on my iPad. What do I do?

]]> By: Wes https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/#comment-1451991 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:28:42 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77949#comment-1451991 Instead of having to tap the space bar between all the words you type when using the swipe keyboard, you just have to lift your finger briefly and continue with your swipe typing.

I figure this is better than having to make a trip to the space bar between all your words.

]]> By: Elizabeth Jones https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/#comment-1426531 Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:03:58 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77949#comment-1426531 In reply to Suzanne Alotta.

Hi Suzanne,

This option appears in iPadOS and iOS 13. For iPads, the update is available for public release this week on September 24th–iOS 13 released last week for iPhones and iPods.

Liz

]]> By: Suzanne Alotta https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-turn-your-iphones-or-ipads-slide-to-text-swipe-keyboard-on-or-off/#comment-1426393 Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:09:44 +0000 https://appletoolbox.com/?p=77949#comment-1426393 I updated my iPad yesterday and the sliding keyboard is not there. There is no option in settings >keyboard either. Any idea?

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