How to change keyboard layout on iPad

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How to change keyboard layout on iPad

iPad 3. iOS 9.0.2

The present keyboard layout is QWERTY but I need to change it to AZERTY accented. I did this in "General", "Keyboard", "keyboards", "French", "accented AZERTY" and got a tick against that choice

This didn't work (the onscreen keyboard remained QWERTY even after turning the device off and on again) so I changed the country to France (in addition) but this still didn't work. What else should I do?

Also, is the accented AZERTY the same as I have on my Windows laptop with about 15 symbols (|☺ ~^ µ ² etc) which are not on a QWERTY keyboard?

iPad Mini, iOS 9.0.2, apple virgin

Posted on Jan 11, 2016 1:59 AM

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thunderzzz

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Jan 11, 2016 3:47 AM in response to don'tsayno

Try this: http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/09/change-keyboard-layout-ios-qwerty-azerty-qwertz/

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don'tsayno Author

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Jan 11, 2016 3:47 AM in response to thunderzzz

Perfect, thanks

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Answer 3

Sep 15, 2016 7:00 AM in response to don'tsayno

The question about the accented AZERTY keyboard puzzled me, too. But then I noticed this punctuation key on the bottom right.

I began pressing and holding all the symbol keys to see what they did. I found this…

…surprise! All characters which already show up when one presses the letter keys? What's up with that?

Check out the final unaccented 'e' in puzzle. Now watch what happens after releasing that bottom right key…

Voilà! Now it has an umlaut it didn't have before …without deleting and retyping it from scratch!! That's the only difference between that. AZERTY and the AZERTY accented keyboards.

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Sep 15, 2016 7:06 AM in response to MacSmiley

I assume it works similarly on the iPad as it does on my iPhone.

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