How do I switch back to the old keyboard in iOS 26?

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I knew someone who was beyond upset because they bought a new car and there's no place to insert the key to start the engine. They claimed they could NEVER adjust to a Start Button on the dash.

What's that British word? Ah, yes, gobsmacked.

mattkoyak wrote:

Bruh! You think those look the same?!?

Yes, bruh, they are exactly the same. The english word ‘Return’ has been changed to the international symbol for the return key. Try thinking outside your cultural bubble. The word Space was removed because anyone with a brain already knows what that key does. When have you ever seen a physical keyboard that has the word Space printed on the space bar? It is not confusing to reasonably intelligent people. Learn to adapt.

The problem is the new ios26 keyblard fonts are thinner. This means more difficult to read. The same problem is a thin frame arround the icons even at default mode (why?) This brinks headache to me and I plan to downgrade to iOS18 or reject my mobile phone to the ve dor!!!

The keys are closer together. If you look at both screen shots you can see that the Q and P reach the edge of the screen. They don’t in the new one. This is probably why I have more typos on the keys close to the sides.

based32 wrote:

How am I supposed to adapt to Apple completely changing words I type into different ones even thought I typed the original one correctly

The same way you learned and adapted to the previous keyboard. No one was born knowing how to use a particular keyboard.

K-KatMom wrote:

I absolutely HATE the size of "the new" keyboard.

This may "push me" to FINALLY ditch my iPhone + purchase an android.

Buy whatever you want. Threatening only other users you may buy an Android on a user to user only forum, where no one from Apple Participates, nor reads for user feedback, doesn't matter to us in any way.

Buy something else if you want. Adjust to change seems a better move, but it's your money.

You can tell Apple what you think using this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Yes, the keys are the same size. I used your screenshot (and admittedly cropped the top poorly) and used a ruler tool of my own. The lines are translated only vertically across the keyboards. You can see that not only are the spaces between keys smaller, but they are also inconsistent. This is the problem, not the size of the keys.

I don't like the grey background of the keyboard and the keys are elongated making it harder to hit the right key. Would love to go back to iOS 18!

p Switch me back 🙏

Read my previous response.

Elongated key design/style makes it harder to hit the right key. I also don't like the dark grey background. This new keyboard design is on in Messages (fortunately not in email and WhatsApp).

Could you upload a screenshot of the keyboard? Mine looked like this before:

And like this now:

Which looks exactly the same

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Bruh! You think those look the same?!?

I would like my camera on my phone to switch back to the old one on ios 26 update and I would like my old keyboard as well

I keep mistaking , the enter and the delete button, I do not like this new keyboard. I would like to switch back to the previous one.