Keyboard default language changes repeatedly

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Keyboard default language changes repeatedly

My wife and I have an iPhone X running IOS 12.2. We live in San Antonio, Texas. On a recent trip to Mexico we added the Spanish keyboard and also the Spanish Dictionaries (both Spain and Mexico) to our iPhones as we were doing lots of bi-lingual calling, texting and web surfing. In the keyboard settings the top is English, middle "Emoji" and bottom is Spanish. However, when I open Messages or Safari and email the keyboard shown is Spanish, not having an "n" but an "ñ". I can tap/hold the emoji icon and set it back to English but have to do it for every new text. This happens on both my wife and my phones.

Having Spanish as default was great in Mexico, but now that I'm back I need it to be English with Spanish as an option when I choose. Both my wife and I shift languages from English and Spanish to English often in same sentence (comes from living in a bi-lingual bi-cultural part of the world) in text and email. But we need English as the default. How can I make that happen?

iPhone X, iOS 12

Posted on May 10, 2019 8:15 AM

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Answer 1

May 10, 2019 8:32 AM in response to DEarle09

I suspect that you're inadvertently tapping the Globe/Emoji key. I do it not infrequently. The only way to avoid this is to delete other keyboard. You can still access the Spanish n in the English keyboard by pressing and holding on the "n" key. This works for any accented letters.

The only other option I can think of is to find another third-party English keyboard that has that button in a harder to reach place.

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Answer 2

May 10, 2019 11:17 AM in response to DEarle09

I have the Spanish keyboard installed and I don't have this problem. Yes, I occasionally accidentally change the keyboard. The fact that it's happening to both of you doesn't mean I'm wrong.

I would suggest that, if nothing else, you remove the Spanish keyboard and add it back (though, if you only occasionally use Spanish, it's not necessary at all).

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shivaa18

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May 17, 2019 9:57 AM in response to DEarle09

Good evening. If Spanish is the default language it is normal that each time the keyboard is displayed in Spanish. Try to go to the keyboard settings and choose English as the default language.

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DEarle09 Author

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May 10, 2019 10:39 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Nope, this isn't the issue. And it happens with two users on two iPhones. I can intentionally set the keyboard to English. Close the app. Open the app, start a new message and most of the time it defaults to Spanish.

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DEarle09 Author

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May 10, 2019 11:45 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Guess I'll try that. I wonder, however, if it has to do with the location I was when I installed the keyboard? I happened to be in Mexico when I did it, and I wonder if somehow deep within the bowels of the IOS some code got triggered? One would think, and hope, that iPhones should be able to handle multi-lingual conversations extremely intuitively.

Will let you know if the deletion/reinstallation works.

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DEarle09 Author

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May 17, 2019 10:07 AM in response to shivaa18

Thanks for the reply, but English is set as the default language.

I think I have discovered the cause of the issue, though I'll need to do more checking to be sure. It appears that if you switch to the Spanish keyboard with a particular person in text messages/emails, the next time you correspond with that person the Spanish keyboard comes up. Doesn't matter if you had switched back to English, or if it is a different message altogether. It would make some sense to show the last used keyboard with a particular contact, but it doesn't appear to.

As I said, this is my working hypothesis based on a few limited observations, and will bear further research to be sure.

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Answer 7

May 10, 2019 12:07 PM in response to DEarle09

Unless you also changed your region to Mexico and the phone's language to Spanish, no, it shouldn't do that. I don't believe it does it at all.

Best of luck!

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