Your iPhone background and lock screen aren’t the only things you can customize on the Apple handset.
The digital keyboard you use for typing can transform from the drab QWERTY layout into a portal for typing in French, Chinese, Portuguese, and most of the world’s languages. You can also use the keyboard to spice up your texting with GIFs, emoji, memes, and stickers. Other custom keyboards change the layout of the keys or how you type.
Let’s explore how to take your typing beyond the standard, default keyboard.
Languages
The easiest way to change up your keyboard is to add more language options. For an iPhone follow these steps to add as many options as you’d like.
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Open Settings and find General
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Within General you’ll see “Keyboards”
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Click on that and you’ll see all the keyboards already loaded
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At the bottom of the list click “Add New Keyboard”
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From there you can scroll through or search through all available languages (it’s a long list from Ainu to Welsh)
Add a new keyboard on the bottom.Credit: Sasha Lekach / MashableAnd make a selection from a long list of language options.Credit: Sasha Lekach / Mashable
Layouts
A bevy of apps let you redesign your keyboard.
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Fun stuff
If you want easy access to GIFs and memes, you can download different keyboard apps to do just that.
Google’s
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The straight-forward
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There’s something for everyone.