No keyboard appears when invoking spotlight in some cases

Originator:seandreilly
Number:rdar://19410913 Date Originated:08-Jan-2015 10:56 AM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS Product Version:8.1
Classification:Serious Bug Reproducible:Sometimes
 
Summary:
When a third party keyboard is set as the primary keyboard, Spotlight sometimes refuses to show any keyboard at all.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a third party keyboard and make it the primary keyboard (I use SwiftKey)
2. Power cycle your iPhone
3. invoke spotlight from the springboard

Expected Results:
I expected spotlight to show a keyboard so that I could type the !@#$&%^ query.

Actual Results:
No keyboard is shown at all, making it impossible to enter any search text.  The spotlight search field with blinking cursor just sits there, mocking me.

Regression:
Occurs in iOS8.1 (not sure about 8.0) when a third party keyboard (SwiftKey) is installed as the current/primary keyboard.  It seems to be easily reproducible, but doesn’t occur every time.  

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