How to add new keyboards to our iPhone or iPad with iOS 8

iOS 8 has brought us great new features and functions to our devices thanks to the big step taken by Apple "Opening up" to third parties. One of these novelties is the possibility of add third party keyboards that we can use in each and every one of the apps we use. Let's see how to do it.

Add third-party keyboards in iOS 8

If this morning we have told you about the Widgets in the Notification Center and how to add them, now it's the turn of the keyboards in iOS 8.

Since yesterday it is possible to add third party keyboards to our iPhones, iPads or iPods Touch with iOS 8 working inside. In this way, at any time and from any app (the developer's own, native iOS apps or any other) we can replace the native keyboard that comes with the operating system with the one we like the most. As you will see later, it has no mystery.

The first thing we will have to do is download the keyboard or keyboards that we want to have available. To do this, just go to the App Store and, as if it were any app, search for it, buy it and download it to our device.

En App Store you can already find some very interesting like SwiftKey, TextExpander, or Swype without forgetting the so original Pop Key that will soon arrive at the store and whose secrets we reveal to you here.

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How to install new keyboards in iOS 8

How I have already advanced you, install new keyboards on our devices iOS 8 It is very simple and, once the keyboard we want is downloaded from the App Store, we just have to follow a few simple steps to activate it:

1. We go to Settings → General → Keyboards; In the new window, click on «Keyboards» and, in the next window, «Add new keyboard».

2. We choose the keyboard that we just downloaded in the App Store, in this case SwiftKey and in the next window we will see the keyboards that we have installed on our device.

4.We already have the new keyboard installed on our device. Now from any app, when the keyboard is displayed, to change it we just have to click on the icon of the «ball of the world» that we have in the bottom left in second position, choose the keyboard we want and it will automatically change and we can use it.

Isn't it complicated? Remember that you have many more tips and tricks like this in our section on Tutorials.