Allow Automatic Focus

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Automatic focus refers to an input text field automatically getting focus (placing the cursor in the text field) and bringing up the on-screen keyboard through a JavaScript .focus() event triggered by the page being shown. 

By default, iOS/iPadOS does not trigger automatic focus events as the on-screen keyboard appearing automatically can shift content off-screen and could be disorienting or frustrating for a visitor, rather than allowing them to control when the keyboard is shown by touching inside an input field to trigger focus. 

In certain instances, you may enable automatic focus events to streamline data entry. Most frequently, when using a keyboard wedge barcode scanner where the iPad recognizes the scanner as an external keyboard, the automatic focus would allow scanning data to immediately fill an input field without requiring a user to interact.