It appears that iPads by default report themselves as desktop devices (by using a MacOS user-agent).
Currently, there are two solutions for this:
- Disable requesting the desktop site by default in iPadOS preferences (Settings > Safari > Request Desktop Website > All websites > turn off). This will disable bringing up the pane when typing a forward slash (as we have disabled this behavior on devices that report themselves as mobile devices).
- If you don’t want to do that, there is also the somewhat hacky solution of typing the forward slash twice, which should create two of them. Then you can just delete one of them.