iOS 8 third-party keyboards not working

I'm having this same problem on my iPhone 5S and 4th gen iPad, with Swype and Fleksy.

i am having the same problem too on my iphone 5 with swiftkey and swype

Same here with iPhone 5S A1457 with iOS 8 (12A365).

Edit: Working for me now. At first I reset the keyboard dictionary. I think this is not trick but I am not sure.

How to reset the keyboard dictionary:

Settings - General - Reset - Reset Keyboard Dictionary

Then I additionally allowed "full access" for the Minuum third party keyboard:

Settings - General - Keyboard - Keyboards - Minuum Keyboard - Allow Full Access

If I remove the full access the keyboard disappears again. So it must be this setting.

Let me know if that fixed your problem as well.

Solved the problem for me now!

I had activated the guided access in my Accessibility Settings. Now after deacivating this option the third-party keyboards appear insteed of the grey box ✅

iOS: About Guided Access

Also had Guided Access activated. Works for me now even without allowing full access.

Thanks!

What is this guided access used for? It is turned off on my iPhone 5, so I wonder why it is turned on for so many others.

Guided access is basically a kid safe version. You can turn off hardware buttons, restrict them from app switching and things like that. A must for those of us with two year olds.

I had the same problem with my ipod touch too..but i solved it by Switching off Allow Full Access and turning it On again

None of these solutions helped me. Any other solutions???

NOne of these worked for me too. Anybody has any other suggestion?? Please this is very annoying i have an iphone 5 and in trying to use Swype when i try to use the keyboard not even the main one would show up until I deactivate the third party keyboard

SSame here. Also using iPhone 5.

Turning off Guided Access WORKS! It fixed Swype not coming up!

Guided access was never on for me. Tried checking and unchecking it anyhow. Sometimes I get the grey box where a keyboard should be, sometimes I see the swype keyboard but it's unresponsive.

I love the Swiftkey app and it's about time we get it but it's frustrating me that when I go to write something, no keyboard pops up. It's similar as to when your connected to a bluetooth keyboard. I've tried restarting the phone, turning off bluetooth, turning off Guided Access, screaming at Siri, and leaving it in rice (insert sarcasm) and none of these worked.

What worked for me was double clicking on the home button and closing out all of my open apps. It must be a glitch with one of the older apps that has yet to update to iOS8. Anyways I hope they fix it soon.