If you often type in Spanish on your iPhone, you may want to use the correct characters when writing.

While you may have tried different options like cut and paste, another option available to you involves adding a Spanish keyboard to your device.

Our guide below will show you where to find the menu to add the iPhone Spanish keyboard to apps like Notes, Mail, Messages, and more.

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How to install Spanish keyboard on iPhone

  1. Click “Settings”.
  2. Select General.
  3. Select keyboard.
  4. Click on the keyboard.
  5. Select Add a new keyboard.
  6. Select Spanish keyboard option.

Our guide continues below with more information on how to add a Spanish keyboard to iPhone.

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Writing in a foreign language is very difficult in software and hardware designed for the English language.

There are usually options that allow you to add characters for a specific language as you type, but they are often cumbersome or inconvenient.

But if you find that you need to type a lot in a language other than English, such as Spanish, you can add a Spanish keyboard to iPhone 5 that you can access from any screen where the keyboard is available.

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How to install Spanish keyboard on iPhone

The steps in this section were performed on an iPhone 13 running iOS 16.

Step 1: Open the Settings app.

Click Settings

Step 2: Scroll down and select General.

Select General

Step 3: Touch Keyboard.

Click on the keyboard

Step 4: Select Keyboards.

Select keyboards

Step 5: Click on the Add New Keyboard button.

Click Add New Keyboard

Step 6: Scroll down and select the Spanish keyboard you want.

How to add spanish keyboard to iphone

You can use the Spanish keyboard by opening an app like notes or messages, clicking inside the text box, then long pressing the globe icon and selecting the Spanish option.

Now that you know how to add a Spanish keyboard to your iPhone, you can add other language keyboards in the future as needed.

The old way – How to type on a Spanish keyboard in iOS 7

The same method can also be used to add language keyboards from other languages. All keyboards can be accessed by clicking on the globe icon to the left of the space bar, as in the image below.

Tap the globe icon to the left of the space bar

This will switch the keyboard to Spanish, which looks like this:

How to add a spanish keyboard to iphone 5 in ios 7

Step 1: Tap on the “Settings” icon.

Click on the settings icon

Step 2: Select the “General” option.

Select the General option

Step 3: Scroll down and tap on the Keyboard option.

Press the keyboard button

Step 4: Tap on the “Keyboards” button.

Press the keyboard button

Step 5: Tap on the “Add New Keyboard” option.

Select the option to add a new keyboard

Step 6: Scroll down and select the Spanish language option.

Select the Spanish option

Next, to type on a Spanish keyboard, tap the globe icon to the left of the space bar as shown above.

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There is also an emoji keyboard that you can add in a similar way. Click here to learn how to add an emoji keyboard in iOS 7.