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How phone keyboards decide what you meant, how to make an iPhone follow you between languages, how to make the keyboard look like yours, and how Pilcrow compares with the keyboards you already know. Every claim about another product links to its maker’s own page.
How-to
Apple’s keyboard only follows light and dark. How to add a keyboard you can theme, what to check before you trust one with your typing, and how to put your own photo behind or inside the keys.
· 4 min read
Explainer
The 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉 and ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔ letters in bios are Unicode symbols, not fonts. Why they paste into any app, and why screen readers and search struggle with them.
· 4 min read
How-to
Where Reset Keyboard Dictionary lives in iOS 27, what it erases, the gentler fixes to try first, and a keyboard whose dictionary you can edit one word at a time.
· 4 min read
How-to
Split, float and dock the iPad keyboard, which iPads still have a split keyboard (most don’t), and how to get a thumb layout on the ones that don’t.
· 3 min read
How-to
Password and phone-number fields, apps that refuse custom keyboards, dictation, memory limits: when iOS shows Apple’s keyboard instead of yours, and how to get it back.
· 4 min read
How-to
iPhone has four separate spell-check tools: Auto-Correction, red underlines, Writing Tools and the one in Pages. Where each lives, when it helps, and how to stop it flagging words you meant.
· 6 min read
How-to
Switch Auto-Correction off and keep the red underlines, stop it changing one word, and what you can and cannot do for a single app, on Apple’s keyboard and on third-party keyboards.
· 5 min read
Explainer
How a keyboard turns a finger trail into a word, the six reasons it guesses wrong, the habits that fix most of them, and how QuickPath, Gboard, SwiftKey and Pilcrow compare.
· 6 min read
How-to
The suggestion row and the grey inline predictions: what they learn from, how to accept, reject or switch them off, and why they sometimes suggest odd words.
· 5 min read
How-to
Long-press, a keyboard for the language, Text Replacement for the words you use most, or a keyboard that puts accents back when you skip them.
· 5 min read
Guide
Full Access, what it sends, accounts, where predictions run, what it keeps, and the App Store privacy label, with the answers for Gboard, SwiftKey, Typewise and Pilcrow.
· 6 min read
Comparison
What Apple’s built-in keyboard does well, where it gets in the way, and what actually changes if you switch to Pilcrow: corrections, several languages, swipe, privacy and price.
· 6 min read
Comparison
A fair comparison of two iPhone keyboards for people who type in more than one language: how many languages at once, Full Access, accounts and backup, what you can see of your own dictionary, and price.
· 5 min read
Comparison
Google’s keyboard and Pilcrow compared on iPhone: languages at once, glide typing, what Full Access is used for, what each says it sends, updates, and price. Facts from Google’s own pages.
· 5 min read
Roundup
Five iPhone keyboards compared for bilingual and multilingual typing: Apple’s keyboard, Gboard, Microsoft SwiftKey, Typewise and Pilcrow. Languages at once, swipe, Full Access, accounts and price.
· 5 min read
How-to
Step-by-step: Apple’s bilingual keyboard, and what to do when your languages are not supported — with Gboard, SwiftKey or Pilcrow. Plus the settings that stop suggestions coming in the wrong language.
· 4 min read
How-to
Autocorrect rewriting names, jargon and words from your other language? Why it happens, the five fixes Apple’s own settings give you, and what a keyboard built to leave real words alone does differently.
· 5 min read
How-to
Your iPhone keyboard changes language, or jumps back to Apple’s keyboard, without you asking? The four usual causes, how to tell which one you have, and the setting that fixes each.
· 4 min read
Explainer
The warning iOS shows for every third-party keyboard, explained from Apple’s own documentation: what a keyboard can do without Full Access, what changes with it, what Gboard, SwiftKey and Pilcrow use it for, and how to decide.
· 4 min read
