physical layout
Laice · iOS 27 · ipad ·
Steps to reproduce
- connect physical keyboard with non qwerty layout
- select german as the language
- disbale all other keyboard
What I expected
physical keyboard uses correct layout
What happened instead
ios uses qwerty lazout internally. Doesnt happen if the normal ios keyboard in on
Discussion
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likely also same issue in phone.
@Laice iOS takes the hardware keyboard layout only from Apple's own keyboards, and a third-party keyboard can't set or remap it. With only EFKey enabled there's no German Apple keyboard to take QWERTZ from, so iOS falls back to US QWERTY. Workaround: keep the Apple German keyboard enabled (EFKey can stay first in the list) and pick German under Settings › General › Keyboard › Hardware Keyboard.