Spillproof iPad Keyboard

Product Description

Turn your iPad into a portable desktop computer instantly using this spillproof iPad keyboard. The slender design fits easily in your backpack or purse ... [Read more]

Features

• Ultra-portable wireless keyboard for all iOS devices including iPad, iPhone, Apple TV and more: Ultra-slim, light, go-anywhere Bluetooth keyboard fits easily in a coat pocket, purse or briefcase
• Durable and spill-resistant: Wipe able Fabric Skin protects the keyboard from spills, dirt and drops
• Comfortable typing: Well-spaced, full-size keys with iOS shortcuts for fast, familiar, accurate typing on iPad
• Long-life rechargeable battery: Type for up to 3 months between charges (Based on 2 hours average usage per day)
• Simple setup: Pairs quickly and easily with iPad via Bluetooth connection

Top Reviews

Paltry standby battery life.
by Bryan Bird (1 out of 5 stars)
July 5, 2019

I'm sad as I write this review. I so wanted to love this keyboard. I've been using a Logitech slim keyboard for years for portable data manipulation in the field with my phone's and various tech through the years. My last keyboard had something like 3 months of battery life when on standby. This keyboard has great promise, unfortunately, when switched off, the battery continues to drain. The current life of the battery when switched to off position is less than 3 days. I would return it if I could. The point of a keyboard like this is to be ready when needed for quick keyboard use, where this keyboard fails utterly is the standby battery life. If I need to constantly have it plugged in and charging, I may as well sit down to my computer.

update 8/4/19

The keyboard is a joy to type on, has held up well regarding the keys and looks. but the battery is ATROCIOUS. at this point, it lasts about 3 hours of moderate use. 30 minutes after connecting to my phone or other device, the low battery light begins to flash. I would happily return it at this point. I'll be ordering another replacement keyboard this fall, as this one is such a disappointment.
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Great with a few quirks
by David (4 out of 5 stars)
May 27, 2018

I love this keyboard. It's just the right size, it's quiet, it's durable, and it works great as a keyboard in general with my iPad. I love the keyboard shortcuts. I've only had to charge it once in the few months I've had it.

I'm not certain the price point is worth it, because of the following reasons.

I expected the keyboard to pair like my Bluetooth earbuds do, where I can easily pair with two devices. However, with this keyboard, I have to remove the keyboard from my iPad's settings altogether to get it to pair with my iPhone, and vice versa. That's very cumbersome. I've opted to use it only with my iPad to avoid the awkward switch, and that works great.

The keyboard makes each first character in a text box or after a period capital case. There are many times I intentionally don't want to start with a capital letter, so that's very annoying (please let me know if there's a way to turn that feature off). (UPDATE: I found a way! Go to Settings>General>Keyboard>Hardward Keyboard and turn off Auto-Capitalization.)

Overall, it's a great choice for a keyboard. It takes a little getting used to before being able to type efficiently, but in my experience that's normal when starting to use any new keyboard.
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Do not buy from here. This is the old version and was poorly manufactured.
by Eric J. Kunz (1 out of 5 stars)
May 18, 2016

Do not buy from here. I bought this keyboard from two different sellers on this page and they are an older version of the keyboard that does not work well. Many of the keys do not register any taps. They only seem to register taps if the keyboard is slightly bent into an arch so it seems to be a manufacturing issue. The more recent version of it does work. It comes in a clear plastic box rather than the paper box.

I ended up getting a replacement from Logitech that is the latest version. It also comes with a little plastic stand. Don't make the same mistake that I did.
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Not sure if mine is authentic-Chinese Knockoff???
by Jaime (3 out of 5 stars)
October 12, 2018

Just received this item today despite the delayed shipment. While I am super happy with this product thus far, I am a bit concerned about whether it is an authentic Logitech keyboard. The keyboard I have looks just slightly different from the picture online. The one online shows the Logitech name discreetly written in the right hand corner while you can see from my picture that mine says logi very prominently in the center. While I prefer the discreet branding, it is not exactly a dealbreaker to have it written in the middle. It just makes me question the legitimacy of the item I paid for.
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Fantastic slim lightweight keyboard for travel
by P. G. Woodhouse (5 out of 5 stars)
July 17, 2016

I've owned four of these awesome keyboards, pairing them with mostly Apple products, iPads Macs and iphones. I travel for business and vacation a lot, and these little guys can definitely take a beating. If you're wondering why I bought four. I lost one (left it on an airplane and just had to buy a replacement). I keep one in the car (just in case), one in my iPad case and another in the office. It's not my primary keyboard for sitting at a desk...I have two Logitech K760s for that. But for chucking in a bag and typing on the go, this is the one to get.

The good:
- Theyre super thin, yet you can still feel a little throw on the keys
- Easy to slide into an iPad case. I have the bookbook case for my iPad pro and I can easily carry the keyboard around inside
- They weigh almost nothing
- Rubbery covering stops the keyboard sliding around and protects it
- Battery lasts forever
- Highly intuitive and simple setup
- iOS special keys

The not-so--good:
- After time (1 year+) the rubbery covering becomes separated from the keys, so it sort of floats above. It doesn't affect the function at all, just doesn't lookme as sleek
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Not for me. Too small, too cramped, and too much effort to type on easily.
by QK Shopper (2 out of 5 stars)
December 12, 2017

I think this is only really useful if you don't type much at all and plan to do something like tweeting or texting. But for entering much text at all, say typing up a page or something, it's not too useful. It does seem well made but the main problem is how small it is. It's just too far from normal spacing. I've used a number of smaller keyboards successfully, including the venerable but no longer sold Amazon Basics, KT 1281, which was a great keyboard. This one is too small. My thumb hurts after just using it for light typing over the past couples days since I got it. In contrast, the keyboard on Logitech's Type + keyboards is a dream. Sure, larger but not large and vastly better. Sending this back as I'm not going to type with this vast of limitations.
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Great portable keyboard
by rka (5 out of 5 stars)
July 19, 2019

After reading several reviews, I was unsure how good or bad this keyboard would be. Many said it was a good portable keyboard for short notes. Others said a decent backup product with mushy but silent keys. Very few reviews recommended this as a good primary mobile keyboard for significant typing every day.

I received today and the packaging was quite extravagant compared to other products. First impressions was a plasticky product that might bend out of shape easily. Not impressive at all.

Then I started using it. I liked the large letters on the keys. The key size and spacing were decent for my style of typing with 2 or 3 fingers per hand. While the keys were a bit mushy, they worked well with enough travel to know when a letter is typed. The keyboard weight and thickness made for a good portable match to my iPad Mini. All the IOS specific functions were there. The bluetooth worked well. The keyboard layout and location of the arrow keys were fine.

While my first impressions of a plasticky product that might bend out of shape remain, this is certainly an impressive product after using it for a while. Logitech put a lot of thought in making such a practical and portable product and I cannot think of any other mobile keyboard I have used in recent years that provided such a positive first impression after the first day of extended use.

Time will tell if the keyboard is sturdy enough for my use or if the battery will last maybe 3 years without issue. At this point though, I highly recommend this product for consideration as a mobile keyboard for significant typing daily.
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Great little keyboard that touch-typists will like.
by Sirocco (5 out of 5 stars)
November 6, 2015

These keyboard reviews have a very limited value because they're all so unnecessarily subjective. For example, the distance between the center of adjacent keys is never mentioned, even though this particular measurement is what determines whether or not a keyboard will provide maximum typing agility as provided by the standard size keyboard. This distance is 19.5 mm on the standard keyboard. The term "mini keyboard" has been introduced to connote "portability," where the numeric keypad has been removed, AND where - in some cases but not all - the keys are also smaller. Removing the numeric keypad, and the keys to the immediate right of the letter keys, significantly reduces the size of the keyboard, but taking the extra step of making the keys smaller seems to offer little more advantage in portability while at the same time creating a big DIS-advantage: a cramped, compromised typing experience. I would expect "mini" keyboard to exclusively describe this inferior, cramped experience, but unfortunately "mini" is also used to describe keyboards having keys that are the full size and distance apart, 19.5 mm. This makes shopping for a keyboard almost impossible, if one is to realize their expectations of typing nirvana, without any buying and returning. It would make more sense if the industry simply described keyboards with full-sized keys but without the numeric keypads as portable, in which case "mini portable" would have the additional meaning of the keys being reduced and therefore cramped, which would be useful to those whose priority was extreme lightness, where one simply can not afford the extra baggage. In which case a portable keyboard would be useful to anyone who simply wanted to reclaim some desk space without sacrificing typing agility - which is a lot of us - while at the same time being compact enough to pack in a small bag. In fact it seems that such a portable keyboard would be small and lightweight enough even where extreme portability is essential - in which case the "mini portable" keyboard would be relegated as useless to literally anyone. Because no matter how big or small the keyboard is generally, I need full-size keys. And it's amazing just how small the keyboard can be while maintaining full-size keys! But without a standardized way to indicate these properties of a keyboard, what should be a simple thing becomes a journey, in which one needs to buy several keyboards to try for oneself.

Along this journey I discovered that I might actually prefer a keyboard with keys as close as 17 mm apart (measured from the center of adjacent keys), as found on the Logitech Keys-to-go. This is still much further apart than on all of the "mini portables." But it makes me think that even the standard keyboard should come in different sizes, since the size of our hands plays a big part in keyboard ergonomics. This is ironic because I was the fastest typist ever in my high school, including my typing class and all previous years. So you would think that the IBM Selectric was designed for someone with exactly my hands, but now I discover that 17mm is just as good or better? Note that I wear a large size glove, and my hands are 19.2 cm, exactly average for an adult man (measured from the tip of the middle finger, across the palm, to the right side of the wrist).

Now that keyboards come in different sizes, with no standard key size or spacing, other factors determine success with any one model: size of hands, Typing skill, the keyboard one is already accustomed to, and the extent to which a keyboard would be in the way when it's not actually being used.

With that in mind I'd like to compare 3 keyboards that I recently bought to use with my new iPad mini 4. They all worked for the few days I was testing them side by side. I kept the Logitech Keys-To-Go and returned the other two, mainly because the "keys-to-go" offers a full-size typing experience but is also whisper quiet. It's also practically weightless but that was not a factor in my decision to keep it, since my priority was whatever keyboard provides the best typing experience with my iPad mini 4.
1. The Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad, Black (920-006701). The keys are 17mm apart and is WHISPER quiet. If you're typing in bed and your spouse is already asleep this wouldn't wake them. This offers a "full-size" keyboard experience and also EXTREME portability. Only if you have thick fingers might this not be a good choice, unless extreme portability is the priority. The keys move downward about 1mm, but with no clickity-clack, more like a click as it might be heard through a layer of thin rubber, which is the case, so there is both a tactile and an auditory feedback, just much less than with a regular keyboard. Due to its unibody construction it's quite durable and can be casually put on a bookshelf or in a backpack or suitcase, ready to grab when you need to do some real typing. Note that it's not intended to replace the full-size keyboard you already use with your desktop computer.
2. Logitech K810 - 19.5 mm between the center of adjacent keys, which lends itself to the FULL typing experience. This is as noisy as, and possibly more than, a regular keyboard. Nothing special, but it does look nice, so if noise isn't an issue this would look very nice on your desk. I would consider this to be a full-size, regular keyboard but that uses Bluetooth. Could be a desktop replacement.
3. Anker Ultra Compact Slim Profile Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. 19.5 mm between the center of adjacent keys, so calling it "ultra compact slim" is outrageously misleading, hence my call for a less subjective and more standardized nomenclature among keyboard manufacturers. This is twice as noisy as the Logitech K810. This is a noisy keyboard. It made a thumping sound on the kitchen countertop. If someone is typing on this in the next room you will hear them. You can't use this if someone in the house is trying to fall asleep or is sleeping. Even the Logitech K810 makes above average noise for all keyboards but the Anker is twice as loud as this!

The biggest difference among these three keyboards is the clickity-clack noise they make. The Anker is just plain noisy.

Of the three I kept the Logitech Keys-To-Go and returned the other two. I would even consider getting a second Keys-To-Go, for the sake of being future-proof. At $49, this seems like a very good price, considering it retails for $69 and higher elsewhere. It seems like a "very good" keyboard for anyone who wants the full-size keyboard experience in a reduced form factor, and a "must have" if you travel a lot or only use a keyboard infrequently and prefer a really clean desktop.

Hopefully this will make your keyboard buying decisions easier.
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Thin as hell, but you can still feel the key throw, incredible as that may seem
by T. Stibal (5 out of 5 stars)
March 4, 2015

I am suffering from ALS, and my DVA-issued iPad is my constant companion, my only efficient means of communication. However, I don't want to drag both it and the computer around, this so I can work on writing articles while stuck at the hospital for an appointment.

So, I went shopping for a keyboard, ideally one that would mate with the iPad as a cover. I tried out four different ones, but settled on this one for several reasons:
* The weight. This little wonder is a featherweight compared to all of the others. Thin as an after dinner mint, it fits well in the Case Logic Case that I tote the whole affair in. Not as convenient as a hinged case cover keyboard, but easily half as light.
* The operation. Like most other keyboards, it is charged through a USB to mini-USB cord. One control, an on-off slide switch. (The switch is well recessed in the edge of the 'rubberized fabric covered" case.)
* The comprehensiveness of the thing. In addition to the classic 'QWERTY" arrangement, there is also a row of "function-like" keys above the number row, enabling one touch access to such iPad operations as pulling up the cameras, going to the home screen, search and God alone knows what for several of them. As there is virtually no documentation with your purchase, you have to figure those out by hit and miss. Also, you get an arrow key cluster, command, option and control keys, and a function key, although I have yet to test that out. The one thing missing here is a way to lock the keys into a numeric keypad configuration, something perhaps not in great demand with an iPad but still nice to have if it's available.
* The key throw!!! On a keyboard of ¼" thickness, Logitech has managed to provide keys tha actually have "throw". While not up to IBM Selectric standards, you still get positive feedback that you have hit the "G" key when you intended to.
* The battery life. I've bee using it pretty heavily for five day, and the indicator light still shows a full charge.

Now for the (very few) 'negatives":
*The covering, while excellent as far as a protectice cover is concerned, does not have enough 'tack' to hold it stationary under the impact of your piston-like fingers. On any surface other than a dead-flat surface, it will move and shift. Small patches of 'tacky' material would overcome this easily.
* Size. The keys at the margins have been scaled back, but you are still operating on a surface the size of the ancient Apple Newton system keyboard. But, it's unavoidable if you're going to scale a keyboard to the size of an iPad. Your hands enter the keyboard in a very tight arrangement, one that you need to learn to maintain. This too works against using the keyboard on a lap or anything other than a flat, stable table.
* No carrying sleeve. However, the keyboard's surface takes storage in a carrying bag well.
* The 'heat sealed' edges of the keyboard. While efficient and done well, it give the board a 'cheaper' feel.
* The friggin' Caps Lock key. On a tight keyboard like this, providing a Caps Lock key without some means of disablement or locking it out altogether is a recipe for typing frustration for a touch typist. I have hated the Caps Lock key ever since the early 1950s, and I was sorry to see it here in classic form. Logitech, give us a way to null this key out!

Would I buy it again? In a New York minute, without a doubt. But, if you take the plunge, make sure of your typing surface, or you will find yourself slip slidin' away...
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You know you want one
by Thomas V. (5 out of 5 stars)
April 19, 2019

Seriously, buy this. Buy it even if you don't really need one. It's really fun to be able to connect this to my phone and get some writing done. I'm quite scatterbrained, so I also find myself replying to email, texts, and typing in searches online all with this keyboard on my phone. I find that I need to sit down at a cafe or restaurant in between appointments to write or get little work tasks done, but for the first time I can remember, I actually had to sit back in the startling realization that I was able to reply to all messages and email, and write everything my little heart desired in about 1/4 the time I thought that it was going to take. In turn, I was able to actually relax for the rest of my discretionary time, instead of anxiously checking the time between tasks so I could run out at the last moment.

By the way, I have also paired this to my apple tv, and sometimes to my iMac. It's not designed for super quick and seamless transitions between paired devices, but the process is simple enough, so it only takes a couple of minutes. It's more of a novelty, I find that I rarely use it with any device other than my phone after a few months, but you can do it.

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