How can I appoint a keyboard to a contact?

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How can I appoint a keyboard to a contact?

i'm going nuts switching between different language keyboards! My family is one languag, some friends another and then there's the language of the country I live in, so I constantly have to switch between 3 different keyboards + the Emoji. This does end up in some strange messages, when I forget to change and the auto correct tries to "translate" what I wrote. It gets even more irritating when I dictate into my new Apple watch in one language, but if the keyboard on my phone is on another language, I cannot use the language I need. I can choose a different ringtone, text tone etc when creating a contact, why can't I also choose a keyboard? Does anyone have a solution to this?

Apple Watch, iOS 8.3

Posted on May 6, 2015 7:04 AM

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May 6, 2015 7:55 AM in response to Mrol

Welcome to the Apple Community.

If you have any suggestions that you think might enhance the Apple Watch you can send Apple your feedback here

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Mrol Author

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May 6, 2015 8:44 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thank you for your suggestion, but I wrote to /feedback a year ago suggesting they add a keyboard to contacts, but no response. I've talked with support, but they didn't have a solution either. I was hoping someone knew of an app or other solution which could solve this for me?

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Tom Gewecke

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May 6, 2015 9:37 AM in response to Mrol

Mrol wrote:

It gets even more irritating when I dictate into my new Apple watch in one language, but if the keyboard on my phone is on another language, I cannot use the language I need.

I have seen a report that the Watch will normally adjust the dictation language to fit the keyboard normally used in the iphone Message app for the contact being dictated to. Does that work for you? (I can't test it myself).

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May 6, 2015 10:09 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

My daily problem is this: I text my friend in English on UK Keyboard, then I need to text my mum in Danish, but the keyboard is still stuck on the UK one, so I press the Globe and change to Danish Keyboar, then back to my friend and so on. Now on my watch if I texted my friend last in English, but want to dictate a text to my mum, I have to take out my phone, go into messages and change the keyboard into Danish, but then I might as well just text her and drop the watch. If I could just somehow make sure the keyboard was "attached" to each of my contacts, it would make my (and a lot of others) life a lot easier

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Tom Gewecke

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May 6, 2015 11:00 AM in response to Mrol

Mrol wrote:

If I could just somehow make sure the keyboard was "attached" to each of my contacts

As I understand it, this did used to work in ios 6 and 7, but not as well in 8

iOS 8 keyboard issue in messages

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annabelle

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May 6, 2015 11:10 AM in response to Mrol

I had your same problem: few people around the world with 3 different languages

I solved it : just go to Messages on your iPhone

and check the person you are sending the message to

has the right language keyboard selected

Then from your watch everything will work

It does on mine.

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Tom Gewecke

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May 6, 2015 11:14 AM in response to annabelle

annabelle wrote:

just go to Messages on your iPhone

and check the person you are sending the message to

has the right language keyboard selected

I think you have missed the point. Once you have gone to your iphone to check that, you may as well just forget the watch and do it with the phone. What people want is for the language to adjust automatically without having to access the iphone each time.

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annabelle

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May 6, 2015 11:26 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

No, it doesn't work that way

You select the right keyboard only once on your iPhone

I did it the second day I had the watch because I had the same problem

Since then I never used the iPhone to send messages , just the watch

and Siri is good at switching through the different languages

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Tom Gewecke

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May 6, 2015 11:34 AM in response to annabelle

annabelle wrote:

No, it doesn't work that way

You select the right keyboard only once on your iPhone

Yes, that is what I think is supposed to happen. But Mrol said the keyboard choice did not stick for him, and the thread I quoted earlier said that in ios8 the keyboard choice seems to be quickly forgotten.

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annabelle

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May 7, 2015 7:55 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Try to log out and back into iCloud on your phone.

I did it for another issue I had: handoff wasn't working too well and now everything works like a charm

Maybe is the keyboard related to iCloud too?

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Mrol Author

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May 7, 2015 7:54 AM in response to annabelle

Thank you Annabelle, now the keyboard stays on the last one used for each contact, not the last one I used in general after signing out of iCloud. It's also working with the watch now, but I would still prefer to be able to set a keyboard as default on my contacts so it would also work on the email, Skype, messenger etc. but that's probably just wishful thinking:)

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