Description of the issue:
The keyboard is currently not functioning correctly.
Although it is recognized, it can only be used for text input (e.g., for the name of the company, airport search, etc.).
The keyboard cannot be used for shortcuts, for example, or to assign aircraft functions to a key.
This has been tested with several keyboards:
Logitech K120 Wireless with USB dongle
Cherry DC 2000 with cable connected directly
Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid
All of them work perfectly and are recognized correctly by the PS5.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
every time
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
take a PS 5
plug in a Keyboard
Start FS2024
YOUR SETTINGS
If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.
What peripherals are you using:
Logitech K120 Wireless with USB dongle
Cherry DC 2000 with cable connected directly
Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid
January 19, 2026 - I am also unable get a keyboard to work for controls/binding while playing on PS5. As mentioned in the post, the PS5 recognizes the keyboard, and it works in other games. But in MSFS24, the keyboard only works for Playstation’s typing mechanism, such as entering waypoints or airports in EFB text blocks, or typing in the controls search box. It cannot be used for any flight controls, despite the game’s prompts indicating to hit specific keys for specific functions during flight.
We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.
I was over on reddit and two people say that Bluetooth keyboards are working for them. I have tried two different Bluetooth keyboards and one wired keyboard. Non of them are able to bind the keys. They all work fine for text field tying within the game.
I was hoping that since some others have it working that we could collectively figure a way to solve this. The reddit guys haven’t been much help as they just paired the keyboards and they were able to map keys.
(HOPEFULLY) LAST UPDATE - SOLVED
I was trying to figure out what the “phantom” keyboard icon was so I figured a sure fire way to get rid of it was to do a full system restore. After doing that it still popped up… WTF!!
Well stupid me I forgot I had my Logitech mouse usb receiver plugged in. I removed the dongle and the keyboard disappeared. I then paired my old bluetooth keyboard and fired up MSFS and everything works as it should.
So I think those that are having this issue are probably using those Logitech usb receivers and a bluetooth or wired keyboard. The system sees the usb receiver as keyboard #1 and will not let keyboard #2 function.
Maybe if you used a receiver that controlled the mouse and keyboard it would work, but for now I’m using an old bluetooth only keyboard and it is working correctly.
Hope this helps those that are struggling with this.
UPDATE
Below I thought I had solved this but upon reboot the phantom keyboard came back and is blocking a real keyboard from accessing the binding function. Getting rid of this phantom keyboard seems like the solution to this problem if someone can figure this out.
ALMOST SOLVED.
WIth some users saying it was working for them reddit but MANY others saying it wasn’t I figured there had to be something that was going on that was preventing mine from not working but allowing others.
I started troubleshooting with a wired usb keyboard to eliminate as many variables as possible. After a while of disconnecting, reconnecting, shutting down and restarting I noticed that in my PS menu bar at the bottom (and also at the top right after I started my controller) there was a keyboard icon when I didn’t have ANY keyboards connected. All previous BT keyboards had been deleted. I didn’t know if that was normal or not but I suspected it wasn’t and was the cause.
No matter what I did I couldn’t get rid of it. The way I finally did was to clear the system cache of the PS5. After doing that the keyboard will bind in MSFS2024 and is functioning normally.
Also, what I “think” might have caused that extra keyboard icon to get stuck was a controller charger that I had plugged into the back of the PS5. I am not going to plug it back into the PS5 as I don’t want to have to clear the cache again. I’ll just plug it into an outlet.
Basically the game needs to register the keyboard before the mouse or else you’ll run into the issue of not being able to use the keyboard. An easy way to test it is to hit B (keyboard) on the main menu to go to the quick bar in the top right. If it doesn’t go there then that means you need to:
Disconnect your mouse
Input on the ps5 controller to get the mouse to disappear (flick left stick or whatever)
Disconnect your keyboard and plug it back in
Hit B (keyboard) a couple times to make sure it goes to the quick bar