Here’s how to enable Bilingual Keyboard on your iPhone – Set Multilanguage on your built-in iOS keyboard so auto-correct won’t behave badly anymore
Frustrate no more! Now you can do multilingual typing with one keyboard only.
- This article shares easy steps to multilanguage support on your built-in iPhone keyboard, so that text auto-correction won’t mess up anymore.
- Although on the steps are mentioning iPhone or iOS 18, but the same steps are applicable for iPad and iPadOS 18.
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The World is getting more and more interconnected, hence many of us use multiple languages on daily basis, be it when talking or chit-chatting. When it comes to chatting, messaging or texting in general, however there were frustrations among iPhone users who are using built-in iOS keyboard with auto-correct turned on (I was one of them), mainly because the built-in iOS keyboard only cater for one language at a time, so when you type something that’s not part of the language, iOS will try to auto-correct the wording for you – which most of the time is not something that you want – causing you to delete the auto-correction then retype the word. While you can setup multiple keyboards and then switch the keyboard into the other language, but believe me, it’s pretty hassle when you are chit-chitchatting with multiple persons on multiple different languages as you have to keep switching. But that is now a history.
Ever since Apple releasing iOS 18, now the built-in iOS keyboard supports bilingual or multilanguage, so you don’t need to keep switching between keyboard when texting with different languages. So to cut short, here’s how you can easily enable bilingual on your built-in iOS keyboard.
Here’s how to enable bilingual keyboard on your built-in iOS keyboard
Check out the simple steps below to enable 2 languages on your built-in iPhone keyboard.
1) Ensure your iPhone is running at minimum iOS 18.
Open Settings > General > Software Update, to see if you have the required iOS version.
If you are not on iOS 18 yet or below, do check the following link to update it to iOS 18: Updating to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 at JILAXZONE.
2) Open Keyboard Settings.
Open Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards.
3) Add New Language to the keyboard.
a) Under KEYBOARDS, tap on the built-in iOS keyboard (typically the 1st entry, if you are not using any 3rd party keyboard). If you are doing it correctly, you should be able to see LANGUAGE and KEYBOARD LAYOUT sections.
b) Under LANGUAGE section, you should see “Add Language…” entry. Tap on it.
c) Inside Add Language screen, choose the language you want to add to make your iPhone keyboard to be bilingual.
4) Give it a try!
Exit from Settings and try opening any apps that triggers you to type.
If you are doing all the steps correctly, you should be able to see on your iOS keyboard spacebar button, the 2 languages you chose earlier (for my case, it’s showing as “EN ID”, because I chose English and Indonesian).
Another keyboard related tips: Enable swiping on your built-in iPhone keyboard, check out the detail here: Swiping on built-in iPhone keyboard at JILAXZONE.
Bring it all together
Auto-correct never frustrate me anymore with the bilingual keyboard setup I did on my iPhone. So, if you find auto-correct frustrates you, be sure to setup your iOS keyboard to be bilingual – to add in your other commonly used languages and live happily ever after. In case you encountered any difficulties and/or have queries, don’t hesitate to put your queries or thoughts on the comment section down below. I’ll be happy to assist.
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