iPhone bilingual keyboards defaulting to English after update

I have had bilingual keyboards on my phone for years. In this most recent update they took away the most functional feature.


Here’s how it used to work: I had 2 bilingual spanish-English keyboards on my phone. Like this:

1 English—Spanish

2 Spanish—English


So while I was able to type in either language on both keyboards, keyboard 1 tended to choose English over Spanish. And keyboard 2 tended to choose Spanish over English. It was great for me and while other people complained that their phone keyboard and autocorrect was always wrong, mine worked perfectly.


But now no matter how I configure the bilingual keyboard, it always defaults to English as the primary language and I HATE IT!


PLEASE PLEASE bring this old functionality back!! It worked so well and now it doesn’t work at all.


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Original Title: Bilingual Keyboards

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 19, 2025 3:42 PM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2025 12:34 AM

tzoniaa wrote: "...PLEASE PLEASE bring this old functionality back!!..."

tzoniaa ~ We can't bring that old functionality back as we're all just users in these user-to-user communities. Use this form:


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