Manage keyboards with your iPad

International iPad keyboard

If American English is not your only language, you might find this iPad article very interesting, because, over the course of your iPad day, you might be communicating in French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Flemish, Italian, Canadian French, or British English. You can give a keyboard layout that reflects the standards of these languages. To give your iPad some global input:

Tap Settings, then General, then Keyboard and finally International Keyboard and tap Add New Keyboard. On the Add New Keyboard screen, peruse their email list of languages and tap the one you need to converse in, like German to include a German-character keyboard. The iPad adds your option to your personal list of keyboards at Settings, then General, then Keyboard, then International Keyboard and Keyboards.

You get your choice of keyboard layout, too. To choose one, tap the language name in your list of keyboards. You can pick the keyboard layout for that iPad screen. If you plan to use an external keyboard as well, you can select a hardware layout, too, like the one for a Bluetooth keyboard that uses the standard German character map or one that uses the Dvorak layout.

Once you add and configure your new keyboards, give them a call up when you need to leap into a memo in Dutch or Japanese. You can switch keyboards two ways:

First, you can tap the key that has the globe icon, simply to the left of the space bar. With each tap, it cycles through your personal keyboards, briefly flashing its name on the space bar. Stop when you see the keyboard you want.

Alternatively, you can press down on the globe key for any minute to pop up a list of all your keyboards, then slide your finger as much as the one you want. Type away. When you wish to switch back to English or to another keyboard language, go to the globe.

Delete an iPad keyboard

To delete an international keyboard you no longer want, choose Settings, then General, then Keyboard and then International Keyboard. Tap the Edit button above the Keyboards list, then tap the icon alongside the one you want to lose, and then tap the Delete button that appears. To rearrange the order in which your keyboards appear in the globe menu, use the grip strip icons to tug them into the desired new world order. Then tap Done.

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