It's not a simple thing to increase the keyboard's height by a constant size from the default with what iOS gives us, unfortunately, at least as far as we've been able to see at this time. We'd love to remedy this, but for now we'll be focusing on more critical issues. Sorry, something went wrong. I have posted few links for references. Please resolve this issue. Please look at these two references. It's full discussion on how the keyboard size is resolved.
Thanks for the great references; I wish I had found them when I had been working on the keyboard during development of version Never figured out the right search terms. Please compare the height of the "Stock US English with prediction" and "Keyman with prediction" in any device.
Newer alpha versions are not available in the testflight app. Is it possible to try the alpha version with this fix, somehow? Skip to content. Star New issue. What is the height of iPhone's onscreen keyboard? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed k times. The height in portrait and the height in landscape measured in points. Improve this question. TheNeil 2, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Erik B Erik B Here you can find all the dimension of an iPhone: iPhone dimensions — Pfitz.
Do not use that last "iPhone dimensions" link! It's from , before iOS 8 came along, and allowed the onscreen keyboard height to vary. MikeGledhill onscreen keyboard height vary even before iOS 8.
Related: If you are looking for the actual values of keyboard heights e. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I used the following approach for determining the frame of the keyboard in iOS 7. Improve this answer. Ken Anderson Ken Anderson 2, 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.
While it seems a bit involved this is certainly better than hard-coding the keyboard size. Correct answer. Voted this answer and down-voted the question. OP definitely doesn't know what he's talking about.
Be careful guys! This answer is the correct one! Is there a way to do this without having the keyboard appear? In my case, I want to have something behind the keyboard with the same height similar to how messengers have things — John. Show 2 more comments. It's ugly. Perhaps I'm missing something. Other than my sanity. Mike Gledhill Mike Gledhill Easier typing is possible because of the new finger scope between the keys which above all can be enlarged.
This is because the touch surfaces, the active non-visible parts of the standard keys that are sensitive to touch, lie against each other. This is also the case when the standard keys are visually smaller.
With TuneKey the touch surfaces of the smaller keys do not lie against each other. There is just space between the touch surfaces. In this way the fingers have scope around a key and hit much less a wrong key.
The smaller the settings of the TuneKey keys the larger these finger scopes between the touch surfaces are. Then it is easier to type with smaller keys, especially with larger fingers. This is what TuneKey does remarkably better, confirmed with beta testers. And with emojis! Big Keys is a unique keyboard made for you to easily see all the keys. You can resize the key and emoji sizes to make it the perfect size for you. No, not with the built-in keyboard in iOS.
However, you can download third-party keyboards that let you have bigger keys. Some third-party keyboards include:. Apple expert and novelist, Michael Grothaus has been covering tech on KnowYourMobile for the best part of 10 years. Prior to this, he worked at Apple. And before that, he was a film journalist.
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