# Keyboard navigation error on iPad **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [March 5, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993 "2024-03-05T05:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hidde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hidde](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hidde)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/1 "2024-03-05T05:36:57Z")
Hi! I’m a big fan and rely on Anki every day to study Chinese using my iPad, either reviewing flashcards with a stylus or creating and **editing cards with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse setup.** When editing I like to use my keyboard to navigate, but I frequently run into a bug where I **cannot use arrow keys to navigate text or the [tab] key to jump between text boxes.** This also occurs when just typing a search key in the card browser. I did report this problem here once before. Usually, reconnecting the keyboard will solve the issue for a little while until it comes back again. I noticed today, though, that when this problem is occurring, it seems that **the arrow keys on my keyboard are controlling the window’s scrolling mechanism** instead of the text box i’m writing in. Does anyone have a clue what I can change in order to prevent this from happening? ---
**Author:** ![hidde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hidde](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hidde)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/2 "2024-03-05T05:46:38Z")
Forgot to add I’m on the latest versions of iPadOS and Anki (23.12.1) and have had this problem on earlier versions too ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/3 "2024-03-05T06:21:27Z")
It sounds like it may be an iOS bug. Is there a pattern to when the issue starts, such as after typing in Chinese text / choosing a completion? ---
**Author:** ![hidde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hidde](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hidde)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/4 "2024-03-06T05:08:18Z")
I have not been able to recognize one, even though I’ve been using this setup for quite a while. And I dont ever really encounter this problem outside Anki, I think! ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/5 "2024-03-07T05:23:30Z")
When it happens, does tapping into a field to focus it, then pressing tab again help? If not, how/when does the issue resolve itself? ---
**Author:** ![hidde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hidde](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/hidde)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/6 "2024-03-29T14:49:42Z")
Your suggestion itself did not work, but I’ve tried pressing a bunch of buttons and it did help on some occasions. It seems pressing Shift then Fn (I’m using a standard make Apple bluetooth keyboard) produces good results. Normally, reconnecting the keyboard also does the trick. ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/7 "2024-03-30T08:40:47Z")
I’m afraid this is probably not something AnkiMobile has control over, but I’m glad to hear you’ve found a reasonably simple workaround with the buttons. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keyboard-navigation-error-on-ipad/41993/8 "2024-04-29T08:40:58Z")
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