What Happened to the iPad Split Keyboard?


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Today Stephen Hackett wrote about that clever feature that started in iOS 5 and let you split and move the keyboard on your iPad. For some strange reason, however, this feature never made it to the 11 and 12.9 inch iPads Pro. This seems particularly silly to me with respect to the 12.9 iPad Pro, where typing in portrait view is very awkward unless you have hands big enough to palm a basketball. I actually had this on my list of gripes for this week’s iOS tips Mac Power Users episode but I never got around to it. I’d love to know why this feature got pulled from the most expensive iPads.