Many users are complaining about the quick text speed improvement tricks being glitchy on iOS 4.2 for the iPad. The ability to tap and slide capital letters, numbers, symbols, etc. is a real time saver but many people are saying it isn’t working well at all. Instead it is working but resulting in random input instead of the right character, or sometimes working and sometimes not.

We had the same problem but it seemed to have stopped after a quick reboot. If you are having the same problem, we have the usual advice to help you fix it below:

If you aren’t sure which shortcuts we are talking about check out the original tip and video. There unfortunately isn’t a secret to this one, since it isn’t consistent it is probably not a real bug in the OS but just a glitch for some of us who have updated.

Here is what you should try (in order of easy to annoying)

• Restart the app.
• Reboot the iPad.
• Update the OS again in iTunes and restore from backup.
• Update the OS again and start clean.

We agree that the last one is a last ditch effort but sometimes there’s a problem in the backup and no matter how many times you restore, you end up restoring the same problem again and again. Hopefully one of the first few options work for you and it doesn’t come to that but it’s still just an option.

If you are one of the many experiencing a glitchy keyboard on your iPad iOS 4.2 and you found a work around, let us know in the comments below!

[Source: TiPb]

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