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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Keyboard will not show up on iPhone

I cannot change my city name on the game on iPhone as the keyboard will not show up.  I have restarted the app, rebooted the phone.  do I need to delete and start over?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I had the same problem.  Oddly enough, if you tap where the keyboard SHOULD be, the letters will show up.  But I wouldn't recommend it because you can't see anything. 🙂

    Here's what I did:


    - Went to the Change Name screen in SimCity
    - Pressed the Home button to return to the iPhone main screen.
    - Brought up Safari
    - Tapped on the web address field to bring up the keyboard
    - Brought SimCity back up

    When I did that, the keyboard reappeared and I was able to change my city name.  I'm not sure if that fixes it for good, but after a while I went back to it and the keyboard came right up.

    Hopefully they'll put in a fix for that soon. 🙂

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Anonymous
11 years ago

I'm glad you were able to get it resolved.  Remember that ANY time a phone or tablet is acting up, one of the first things to try is to simply power off the device and restart it.  Many people never shut down their devices, especially phones, and any glitches or memory errors left by another program can be fixed by rebooting the device.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I rebooted my iPhone and it did not help.  The keyboard just randomly showed up.  I used the app a few times after rebooting and the keyboard was still not there.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      11 years ago
      @d15nonvtec wrote:

      I rebooted my iPhone and it did not help.  The keyboard just randomly showed up.  I used the app a few times after rebooting and the keyboard was still not there.

      @d15nonvtec Are you using the default keyboard, or some alternative keyboard?  I'm asking because some apps don't behave well when alternative keyboards are in use.

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      Indys2nd
      Hero (Retired)
      11 years ago

      I'm not sure what iphone model you have. But, if it's the bigger iphone 6 version, I wonder if you are using a split keyboard. On my iPad Air I can split the keyboard so 1/2 of it is one side of the screen and 1/2 the other. In Fifa for IOS, if you did that, the keyboard wouldn't come up. The solution was to put the keyboard back together. 

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        11 years ago
        Just thought I'd mention, for the record, that when I was able to reproduce his problem, it was with the smaller iPhone 6 and was using the standard default keyboard.

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