How to have a custom iPhone keyboard?

  1. So basically I'm like the biggest novice to Xcode and all I want to do is have a custom iPhone keyboard so i can have a keyboard layout that is able to type certain special characters without even having to hold down on a key. Basically just i can type everything like the usual US English QWERTY keyboard but each letter is bold serif (so it's pretty much "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890" to "๐š๐›๐œ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐€๐๐‚๐ƒ๐„๐…๐†๐‡๐ˆ๐‰๐Š๐‹๐Œ๐๐Ž๐๐๐‘๐’๐“๐”๐•๐–๐—๐˜๐™๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ—๐ŸŽ"). I did a little research and found that to do this I would need to use Xcode, which I already had on my MacBook, but I have never really used Xcode. Like I found the forum to use Xcode to do this project (I think, it might be wrong but it's Creating a custom keyboard | Apple Developer Documentation), but the VERY FIRST STEP I'm running into problems. The instructions tell me to "Choose File > New > Target", but when I do that "Target" is grayed out and I can't figure it out. So what I'm asking for is to figure out how to have a custom keyboard (Standard US QWERTY keyboard but ๐›๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ) on my iPhone in the easiest way possible. I would like something that doesn't use Xcode, but this seems like the only path I can take. Can someone help me?


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iPhone 11, iOS 16

Posted on Apr 11, 2023 3:47 PM

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