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iPad keyboard messed up after iOS 27.0.1 update

Does anyone know what’s going on with the iPad Pro keyboard after iOS 27.0.1 update? Why is unusable now? It takes up at least 2/3 of the screen, the letters are all spread out like they are a phone keyboard, and the space bar is now the smallest button on the bottom row. It is essentially unusable and glitchy AF. I tried resetting it to a US QWERTY keyboard. I put my text size back at the default. I’ve restarted it a half a dozen times. I can’t seem to find any forum or help information showing that other people are having this problem, but I am heavily dependent on my iPad because I’m disabled and it’s my touchscreen device that I can use and right now this keyboard is making it unusable. I’ve attached two photos showing the old keyboard layout that my spouse still has on his iPad that hasn’t run the update yet, and the new keyboard on mine after the update. This is the kind of hot garbage that makes me never want to run the updates when they come out.

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Reports indicate that appearance of the compressed space bar is linked to selection of Display Zoom / Larger Text:

Settings > Display & Brightness > [Display] Display Zoom > Larger Text


Selecting Default or More Space (where supported) should restore the standard space bar to the on-screen keyboard.


I much prefer the larger app icons and other display zoom aspects, but this has been the only fix I could locate for the tiny space bar issue.


this has happened to me as well. It's so frustrating. So far there is no fix I've seen I wish Apple would chime in with an update. This basically makes my iPad useless unless I turn off the zoom them all my apps are so small I can't see them well.

Anyone have a fix yet?

This frustrates me a lot as well.