12 Shades of Keyboard Types in iOS
Every iOS keyboard type, all in one place
As per Apple’s documentation, we’ve got 12 types of the iOS keyboard. Now, let’s look through all of them, I’ve jotted them down with screenshots to make it easy to understand.
1. .default
Specifies the default keyboard for the current input method.
2. .asciiCapable
Specifies a keyboard that displays standard ASCII characters.
You cannot input emojis with this keyboard type.
3. .numbersAndPunctuation
Specifies the numbers and punctuation keyboard.
4. .URL
Specifies a keyboard optimized for URL entry. This keyboard type prominently features the period (.) and slash (/) characters and the .com string.
5. .numberPad
Specifies a numeric keypad designed for PIN entry. This keyboard type prominently features the numbers zero through nine. This keyboard type does not support auto-capitalization.
6. .phonePad
Specifies a keypad designed for entering telephone numbers. This keyboard type prominently features the numbers zero through nine and the * and # characters. This keyboard type does not support auto-capitalization.
7. .namePhonePad
Specifies a keypad designed for entering a person’s name or phone number. This keyboard type does not support auto-capitalization.
8. .emailAddress
Specifies a keyboard optimized for entering email addresses. This keyboard type prominently features the at (@), period (.), and space characters.
9. .decimalPad
Specifies a keyboard with numbers and a decimal point.
10. .twitter
Specifies a keyboard optimized for Twitter text entry, with easy access to the at (@) and hash (#) characters.
11. .webSearch
Specifies a keyboard optimized for web search terms and URL entry. This keyboard type prominently features the space and period (.) characters.
You also get the Go button as return button.
12. .asciiCapableNumberPad
Specifies a number pad that outputs only ASCII digits.
Note: This is only available in iOS 10.0 or newer.
If you look at .numberPad and .asciiCapableNumberPad, you may understand that both are the same but when you use the Arabic keyboard, Kannada keyboard, Konkani keyboard you’ll see the difference, as in the image below.
Besides these, we also have the 13th type, which is .alphabet, but it is deprecated so I’m not going to cover that.
Thanks for reading!
