iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 Virtual Keyboards Now Support Dvorak

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Originally published at: iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 Virtual Keyboards Now Support Dvorak - TidBITS

If you use the Dvorak keyboard layout, you can now implement it for the onscreen keyboard in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16.

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Though it may be of limited use on the iPhone, an on-screen Dvorak on the iPad means that, for the first time, itā€™s possible for us Dvorak users to touch-type on the iPad screen in Dvorak layout. This is a complete game changer. I have waited a long time for this! Unfortunately, thereā€™s no option to flick down for special characters, but still, itā€™s a great start! Now how long to wait for the BĆ©po layout ā€¦

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I will find it useful on both iPhone and iPad because I wonā€™t need to hunt for the letter I want.

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Ha! Guess Iā€™m getting really old; I saw the tease on the front page ā€œDvorak on IOS 16 and iPadOS 16ā€ and thought that you had a column by John Dvorakā€¦

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My very first computer, an Apple IIc, had a mechanical switch that allowed the keyboard to be DVORAK or QWERTY. I tried to use the former, but was never successful. So I wonā€™t be using it on my iDevices or Macs.

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I tried to use the Dvorak keyboard for a while. Got my typing speed almost up to what had been my previous level. But the deal-breaker for me was keyboard commands. After so many years of using cut-and-paste, I quickly tired of quitting programs instead of cutting text.

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Apple provides a layout called Dvorak - QWERTY āŒ˜ to deal with that problem.

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Iā€™ve been using the Dvorak layout on my computers since the Apple II (where three of the keys were mislocated); but Iā€™m staying with QWERTY on my iPhone. I tried the Dvorak layout, Iā€™m forced to think about the location of a character before I can type it. My muscle memory using QWERTY is faster.