I am the OP, and my mom is now up and running (if hunt-and-peck counts as "running") on the iPad. But there is a mystery:

The iPad, like the iPhone, has a sort of home page where you see a lot of icons that represent apps. I (and everyone else I know) tap an icon and the corresponding app launches.

When my mom taps an icon, at least half the time the keyboard appears. She has to swish to the left to get back to the home page.

I have watched this up close several times, and I can't figure out what she is doing that brings up the keyboard. Any ideas??


(As an aside, it turns out to be very easy for a person with diminished fingertip sensitivity to inadvertently brush the screen while typing and thereby enter random characters without realizing it.)