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 work the way you type, and how Pilcrow compares with the keyboards you already know. Every claim about another product links to its maker’s own page.
Explainer
Keyboards are judged by the typos they fix. The number nobody publishes is how often they change a word you typed correctly: how it is measured across 40 languages, and three times the measurement was wrong.
· 5 min read
Guide
Screenshots of the Pilcrow keyboard on the foldable iPhone Duo: closed upright and sideways, open upright, and open sideways with the keys split for two thumbs or as one board, in light and dark.
· 4 min read
How-to
How the iPhone Duo keyboard changes with each pose, how to split it when the phone is open sideways, and which third-party keyboards follow along.
· 3 min read
How-to
Apple’s keyboard has one colour setting: light or dark. Where it is in iOS 27, the two accessibility switches that change the keys a little, and how to get a keyboard in any colour.
· 3 min read
How-to
Apple’s keyboard has no font setting, only Bold Text. How to get the letters on your keys in another face, and why that is different from the fancy-letter apps.
· 3 min read
How-to
Display Zoom, landscape, one-handed mode, and a keyboard with a height setting of its own: every way to change the size of the iPhone keyboard in iOS 27.
· 3 min read
How-to
Turn the iPhone keyboard click and haptic feedback on or off in iOS 27, why a third-party keyboard needs Full Access to vibrate, and a keyboard with a choice of haptic style.
· 3 min read
How-to
The iPhone keyboard has no number row. The quickest way to type a digit without one, and a keyboard with a number row or digits a long-press away.
· 3 min read
How-to
Hold the space bar to turn the iPhone keyboard into a trackpad, select text with a second finger, and the cursor keys and fast flicks a third-party keyboard can add.
· 3 min read
How-to
Hold delete, undo with three fingers, and a keyboard that deletes a word at a time when you swipe left off backspace — and brings the words back when you swipe right.
· 3 min read
Explainer
The iPhone clipboard holds one item, and copying replaces it. Universal Clipboard, the paste prompt, and a keyboard that keeps your recent clips on the phone.
· 3 min read
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
