Keyboard "Feature" Eliminated With iOS 4.2.1

While many of us cannot stop singing the praises of iOS 4.2.1, these feelings aren’t universal. According to one TUAW contributor, the latest iOS update has eliminated a nice feature that many didn’t know about in the first place. Prior to the iOS 4.2.1 update, users could use a shift-drag trick to type capital letters using an Apple device’s virtual keyboard. With the iOS update, this “feature” is gone. According to TUAW:

The iOS 4.2.1 update for my iPad brought many welcome features -- and one unwelcome one. Since upgrading, I have found myself unable to use the handy shift-drag trick to type capitals. Now, I move my finger down to shift, place it on the screen, drag to the letter I want, release it -- and get something random. Rarely, it's the character I was aiming for. More often, it's some other character I dragged my finger over on the way to it. Even more often, it's something nothing [sic] at all.

The video shows the problem in action. This is really quite annoying -- I failed to log into a server several times this morning, and it wasn't until I watched the password box like a hawk that I could deduce why. Fix it please, Apple!

Here is the video:

To be honest, I'm not sure this was such a great "feature" in the first place. However, we'd like to hear from our readers. Is this something you did when typing on the virtual keyboard? And if it was, can you still do it following the update? Leave your comments below.

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