Mobile toolbar missing Android

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Just opening the app, the mobile toolbar, with all the quick actions doesn’t appear. A time before was working, but now it doesn’t

Followed troubleshooting guide with no results. Since the problem is from mobile app, I couldn’t emulate it on Windows.
Despite following the guide, nothing changed
SYSTEM INFO:
Operating system: android 13 (Xiaomi 21051182G)
Obsidian version: 1.8.10 (197)
API version: v1.8.10
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 6
Plugins enabled: 5
1: Advanced Tables v0.22.1
2: Calendar v1.5.10
3: Kanban v2.0.51
4: Natural Language Dates v0.6.2
5: Better Word Count v0.10.1

When I tried to restart the app reinstalling it, I’ve switched off all the community plugins, but it didn’t work.

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I don’t see the keyboard appearing. The editing toolabar should appear only when the note is focused and the keyboard is active.

3

You can’t see the keyboard, since I’m using the Bluetooth keyboard. It’s the same if I use the keyboard of the tablet

4

Ok, I’ve tried something. If I quit the Bluetooth keyboard connection, the toolbar has appeared, but then I reconnected it, and there is now again.

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SYSTEM INFO:
Operating system: android 13 (Xiaomi 21051182G)
Obsidian version: 1.8.10 (197)
API version: v1.8.10
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

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Seeing a very similar behaviour on a Lenovo tablet with connected keyboard.

When the keyboard is connected (= display keyboard is disabled), the quick action bar is not visible. Upon disconnecting the keyboard and restarting Obsidian, the quick action bar is shown alongside the quick action bar. When reconnecting the keyboard, the display keyboard vanishes and the quick actions bar stays until I switch to another note.

Enabling or disabling bluetooth does not seem to have any effect on this. (The keyboard is connected via a magnetic connector)

This behaviour changed with the 1.8.10 (197) update.

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*the quick action bar is shown alongside the display keyboard.

In short, it seems the quick action bar is now only shown when an on-screen keyboard is shown, which is a drawback on tablet devices with external keyboard, since the quick action bar is very convenient but the on-screen keyboard takes up half the screen which makes editing a pain.