Qwerty keyboard on Apple Watch Series 7

When you open a text message is the response box. Tap the response box and the Qwerty keyboard opens. At least it does on both of our Series 7 watches.

If however, this is not the case for you and you did indeed have the keyboard before you did the update, Force Restart your Apple Watch (something recommended after updating your watch), by pressing and holding BOTH the digital crown and power buttons at the SAME time (keep holding) until you see the Apple Logo, then leg go and your watch will restart fully.

Sal004

I had the same problem as you have.

If you set the language to English US and let the watch restart, go to the message app and swipe up there you select the keyboard and then it should show.

It is working for me now but it's very small so i dont recommend it and am changing the language back to Dutch:D

At the moment, QWERTY keyboard only appears to be available when English is the main language set on the watch.

Open the Watch app on iPhone, go to General, then Language and Region and then change the language to English

Apple publishes the current language capability of the WatchOS keyboard here:

https://www.apple.com/watchos/feature-availability/#quicktype-language

To ask for more languages, use

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Are you sure? Cant see the keyboard..

100% sure that I have no keyboard after doing all the recommended steps

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I don’t have a QWERTY keyboard anymore either and it seems it disappeared with the last update. I don’t want to “scribble “!

It did not disappear on either of our Series 7 Apple Watche's on WatchOS 8.4. I just used it on my watch a few minutes ago.

Well do you want to explain how to make it active? Otherwise I don’t need to know what you did.

My language is English. I have one friend that the keyboard comes up as Chinese. I only speak English.

If you mimic your iPhone you can get other keyboards.

AW7.

I bought my AW7 today but it dosnt show me the Little „arrrow” to tap it to get the keyboard. It shows me only the option to write on my iPhone.

default language set to PL.

So its a Bug or it only works on Eng ?

EDIT.

Changed the language of the Watch to Eng(USA) and it still dosnt show.

There are no settings as far as I can see. The keyboard should appear automatically in each app when it is required. For example in Messages I can tap; New Message; Create Message; Create Message (again) and the keyboard appears.

ShadowDust99 wrote:

At the moment, QWERTY keyboard only appears to be available when English is the main language set on the watch.

Open the Watch app on iPhone, go to General, then Language and Region and then change the language to English

WRONG. I tested by setting my Watch7 to Italian, and the on-screen keyboard is available as I expected.