25126353: Poor multilingual writing experience with iOS keyboard (software or bluetooth)

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Description

I would like to share the very poor experience I have with writing text on iOS devices when I write in 2 (or more) languages in the same text. Hardware keyboard don't solve it as you would expect it, it's actually worse, leaving no usable option for that use case.

• No multilingual support with iOS keyboards. Too bad as most iOS users use 2+ languages daily. I write in FR and EN, in the same text.
• SwiftKey is much better for multi-language tasks (and possibly prediction too), but you lose force touch scroll/selection.
• which is probably the most useful force touch thing in iPhone 6s, bringing so much editing power to touch keyboards.
• You say, OK, I'll use a bluetooth h/w keyboard then. But you really can't. Auto correction screws your dual-language writing.
• The procedure with BT keyboard is to show the s/w keyboard, pick the other language, hide it and then use it.
• Or to go to settings and disable predictive globally, which is not what you want.
• But then, if like me you use AZERTY layout for FR & QWERTY for EN to differentiate -> it uses those layout for the h/w one too!
• So you're screwed too, because the h/w one has only one layout (AZERTY for me).
• You thought h/w keyboard would give you more control, but it doesn't. It's not usable if you write in 2 languages.

Hope this helps.

Product Version: iOS 9.x Created: 2016-03-12T10:02:13.911820 Originated: 2016-03-12T11:02:00 Open Radar Link: http://www.openradar.me/25126353

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Modified: 2016-03-12T10:02:13.912000