How to Remove a Keyboard Language from iPhone or iPad

How to Remove a Keyboard Language from iPhone or iPad

Have you enabled another keyboard language on your iPhone or iPad that you no longer want? Maybe youre bilingual or were learning a new language and thought itd be useful. Or perhaps you have discovered a new keyboard language that you never added and youd like to remove it from iOS? Any added language keyboards appear under the little globe icon on the keyboard of an iOS device if they are enabled, that allows for , but if you no longer want a keyboard to appear in that list then youll have to remove it from the iPhone or iPad.

If you have another languages keyboard that you want to delete from an iPhone or iPad, read on to learn how to remove keyboard languages from any iOS device. Oh, and beyond just removing different language keyboards, you can also use this trick to remove or too, if for some reason you dont like those on iOS as well or want to remove them. Note you must have more than one language keyboard enabled to be able to remove one, you are not able to delete your primary language keyboard from iOS either.

Here is how this works: You can not delete the primary language keyboard from your device, so if you device is setup with English and that was what you chose when setting up the iPhone or iPad to begin with, you cant remove the English keyboard. Note that you can also add new keyboards for foreign languages and from this Keyboard settings menu too, any added keyboard allows you to those at any time in iOS when the keyboard itself is visible.

That includes if you want to try one of various swipe and gesture base keyboard options out there for iPhone and iPad. In this example shown here, we deleted a language keyboard called Bengali that mysteriously enabled itself on my iPhone (who knows how the new language was added, it was a new iPhone and setup with English), but you can use this same trick to remove any keyboard language from your iOS device, whether its for a language you understand, are learning, or even keyboards for languages you know nothing of whatsoever.