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Well, the title says pretty much, everytime i connect my iPhone 7 to my headphones, my keyboard disappears. I can’t text other people while I’m connected to my bluetooth headphones. This suddenly happened to me, it’s my first time, and I have no idea how to fix this issue. Someone told me to restore my iPhone, but that’s what I don’t want to do, I think that’s unnecessary I have the latest update, so I can’t even update to a newer iOS.
EDIT: like suggested by another contributor, first you should try force rebooting your iPhone 7 (press and hold power button + volume down button until the phone restarts). Then if that doesn’t help, you should try to back-up your data, restore your iPhone, then test. If it is ok, then restore your data and test again. And are you sure nothing happened that could have triggered this? Such as an update, or you buying new bluetooth earphones, or some liquid damage?
I know somebody already posted this however I just like to confirm it is just a simple matter of going into the settings of the device while it is paired, connected, and on. It seems that all the Bluetooth headsets earpieces etc. are being now set as a Bluetooth keyboard as the third option first being using for phone calls, second being used as media device, you will now see you have a third option to turn off which says “Bluetooth Keyboard” ( maybe only " Keyboard") you want to turn off the keyboard option for your hearing device.. this seems to be across the board of all devices with their latest version of software update and across all devices weather Android PC iPhone Etc it is a very simple fix please do not reset your phones. You don’t even need to restart your phone let alone reset to factory settings all my God I can’t believe that people are just reverting to this as a fix when they don’t have an answer.. What a mess it would create for most of us. Anybody that uses their device for business along with a integrated tech system will then have to go see their IT Department to reinstall everything that they put into your device to work along with your company’s Network or software oh my Goodness.. Do not take the advice to set your device back to factory settings’’ no matter what the problem is that is 99% of the time never the answer there’s always a fix or an update or a workaround created when these problems arise half patients until you find somebody that has the correct answer as previously listed and I have reiterated. As soon as you turn off the keyboard option your keyboard will reappear just as it does when you turn the device off so you can use your listening device and still use your regular virtual keyboard as usual. Happy texting! Or typing.
I have this problem as well and the only way you can fix this problem (temporarily) is by “Resetting All Settings” this way nothing in your phone will be removed and just you have to setup your settings all over again, the reason for this is that out poorly manufactured Bluetooth devices is detected by our iPhones as keyboard and you can see it by going to the keyboard settings that there is a hardware keyboard connected. Nonetheless for me every week this happens and since I’ve paid an expensive Sony SBH54 I’ve no other choice. But the Sony and other companies can resolve this problem with an update on the device which will be installed with a android devices. (Which they will not going to do). Hope this helped some of you guys with bad products! Good luck
I found this happening after installing a Bluetooth replacement home button on an iPhone 8. The problem I had was the phone was thinking the home button was a Bluetooth keyboard and hiding the on-screen keyboard. The work around I found was to hold the home button down for a few seconds to bring up the keyboard. Hope this helps.
