Any recommendations when looking for a Bluetooth keyboard?
By coca-cola_glass, 5 March, 2024
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Apple Hardware and Compatible Accessories
I never use the iPhone with an external Bluetooth keyboard, but i’d like to have a way that I can enter text instead of dictating sometimes. Does anyone here have any recommendations for a specific product that works well?
I have that same Logitech keyboard. It's a larger/heavier sized one. It doesn't have mirrored option--or maybe it's the control or command key--on both sides of the board for right-handed VO modification. I was also not able to get the FN key to do some of the things listed in the VO key command settings, but that might be all FN modifier keys on all bluetooth keyboards connected to an iPhone. I don't like tiny keyboards with mushy, no-travel keys so much, but some people do. I've also connected a cheap ,wired, MS keyboard to the iPhone with the USB camera adapter, and it worked well, except the phone didn't know what to do with the numpad.
If you set your iPhone to use the capslock key as VO, there is a long, long standing bug that causes the caps to still engage if you press the key only once. So you have to keep turning off caps every time you use it as VO. That's for wired or bluetooth keyboards.
Sad part that it does not work well. Wish it did the same like a regular keyborad that is connected to a window PC. All the commands work. For apple not well. Have the Slim folio for my iPad but just use it for typing.
Do you want portability or a number pad? You can't really have both. I went for the iClever bk something, either bk03 or bk05 it's been a couple years but I needed portability and that thing folds up to a genuinely pocketable size. All metal build. keys have decent enough travel for the form factor. Others here will have better and more current experience using a keyboard on iOS as I'm primarily an android user but, you know, physics is physics.
Hi, all contributors to my question, thanks so much! I will certainly consider your suggestions and your comments also gave me interesting perspectives that I didn’t think of. Thanks!
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Logitech K480 Bluetooth Keyboard
There are many bluetoothe keyboards that one can purchase to use with there iOS devices. However, I would recommend the logitech k480 bluetooth keyboard. One of the great things about this keyboard is the fact thatit has a dial that one can use to switch between three channels, which can contain three devices. Just to clarify, each channel can contain a devices. For example, you can have an iPhone one one channel, a iPad on another channel, and the pc on another channel. The batteries in the keyboard can last up to 24 months. I have used this keyboard since 2018 and it has ben working great for years. If you are wondering where you can get this keyboard, you can purchase it from amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Bluetooth-Multi-Device-Keyboard-K480/dp/B00MUTWLW4/ref=sr_1_3_mod_primary_new?crid=NBXBFKG59OT4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jnhhPVbD18Rg7Wmr1znYBdXWUcA6yJRN2e11zyA8TNbAmPSYWhQTK0ro-g-n9MqUn1X0hPg9PA-tqCNFnI6d5QUq0znoZA5Z7k1XO469ucZnGX4xFnW2Pm1QvdS5DfDPUyTPZqcHLZRZbRPlgIz-5HVBdj0t7AOAWGvUgwp5CWPGeMGA9MHEmpyyHrPqDl_T6EQoHwfPNZprfpXSl5iDy0ZU1n0W-l3TXfXdHBHXZrQ.fOuG6Pmhpm_m_OTBiVtfszkmbFYgkIwN9yvXHWuTuTQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=logitech+480+bluetooth+keyboard&qid=1709651050&sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D&sprefix=logatech+480+bluetooth+keyboard%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-3
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I have that same Logitech keyboard. It's a larger/heavier sized one. It doesn't have mirrored option--or maybe it's the control or command key--on both sides of the board for right-handed VO modification. I was also not able to get the FN key to do some of the things listed in the VO key command settings, but that might be all FN modifier keys on all bluetooth keyboards connected to an iPhone. I don't like tiny keyboards with mushy, no-travel keys so much, but some people do. I've also connected a cheap ,wired, MS keyboard to the iPhone with the USB camera adapter, and it worked well, except the phone didn't know what to do with the numpad.
One other thing
If you set your iPhone to use the capslock key as VO, there is a long, long standing bug that causes the caps to still engage if you press the key only once. So you have to keep turning off caps every time you use it as VO. That's for wired or bluetooth keyboards.
Bluetooth
Sad part that it does not work well. Wish it did the same like a regular keyborad that is connected to a window PC. All the commands work. For apple not well. Have the Slim folio for my iPad but just use it for typing.
Depends on your priorities
Do you want portability or a number pad? You can't really have both. I went for the iClever bk something, either bk03 or bk05 it's been a couple years but I needed portability and that thing folds up to a genuinely pocketable size. All metal build. keys have decent enough travel for the form factor. Others here will have better and more current experience using a keyboard on iOS as I'm primarily an android user but, you know, physics is physics.
Hi, all contributors to my…
Hi, all contributors to my question, thanks so much! I will certainly consider your suggestions and your comments also gave me interesting perspectives that I didn’t think of. Thanks!