iPad keyboard has broken shift-drag capitalization under iOS 4.2.1

Filed under: iPadby Richard Gaywood (RSS feed) on Nov 24th 2010 at 2:15PMThe 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