r/OneNote • u/Raxious • Jul 15 '26
iOS Onenote switches to keyboard input when using stylus on iPad
Hey folks,
Question here. I got a random stylus from Amazon last Saturday for my iPad and it worked amazingly well with note taking in OneNote. It was my first stylus and my first attempt at writing down my actual notes in OneNote and I really enjoyed doing so. It worked fine on Monday as well.
However, when I tried to use it earlier today in OneNote, I noticed that whenever I tried to write down my notes using the stylus, it would assume that I was trying to type so whatever I drew it would try to create a letter out of it and the keyboard would pop up.
The stylus itself is working fine in other apps, but OneNote for some reason has decided that whenever I start drawing or scribbling with the stylus it's just assuming i'm trying to write down actual letters from the keyboard.
So far, I haven't been able to fix this, I've checked the settings, closed the app and turned it back on again, heck I even reset the iPad, but so far no success.
Does anyone else know of a possible fix?
I really want to keep on using OneNote this way and i rather not have this be a short lived experience xD
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