Spanish, cane, longing, teaching, pineapple, brother-in-law, stingy, cannon, co% &% # o ... are some of the words that, without the ñ, would not make sense, as long as we do not substitute them for ny as in Valencian, Catalan and other languages. If our keyboard does not show the ñ, we can use synonyms to express the same thing, however, it is not always possible.
If the keyboard of your smartphone or tablet does not show the letter ñ, regardless of whether it is managed by iOS or Android, in this article we are going to show you the steps to follow to get that letter back to your keyboard. Next, we show you the steps to follow to put the letter ñ on the keyboard from your smartphone or tablet.
The letter ñ does not appear on the keyboard. Why?
The letter ñ, It is not exclusive to Spanish since it is also available in many indigenous languages of Latin America (Quechua, Guaraní, Otomí) as well as in Galician, Asturian.
The main reason why the letter ñ cannot be displayed on the keyboard of our smartphone is because keyboard language is not in Spanish.
The mobiles that are bought directly in China, generally do not include the keyboard in Spanish you enter the options, nor suiera in the initial configuration menu, forcing the user to initially configure the smartphone in English and later change the language to Spanish.
This does not happen with the smartphones that we can buy in local stores in both Spain and Latin America. The smartphones sold in these countries do offer Spanish directly in the initial configuration menu, so this keyboard is automatically added as soon as Spanish is selected as the device language.
If the letter ñ appeared on our keyboard and suddenly this it has disappearedMost likely, if we have not touched any settings on the device, it is because we have accidentally changed the language of the keyboard. This usually happens if we have more than one language installed on the keyboard.
Installing more than one keyboard on Android, allows users who use more than one language when typing, take advantage of the spell checker that include.
How to put the letter ñ on the keyboard
Change system language
During the configuration process of our smartphone, the first thing we must do is configure the language that we want to use on our smartphone, the language in which The menus will be displayed and that will be the one used by the keyboard.
If it is a smartphone or tablet that we have bought in our country, we will not have any problem, since this will automatically configure the keyboard in Spanish when we configure it for the first time.
But if it is a Chinese mobile, it is most likely that the system language is English and that We are not shown the possibility of configuring the device in Spanish. No matter how little knowledge we have of English, it is relatively easy to configure the basics.
Change the system language on Android
Once we have configured the basic values of our smartphone to be able to reach the home screen, we will carry out the steps that I show you below to change the system language to Spanish.
- First, we access the Settings Of the device.
- Next, we look for the menu Language & input (Languages)
- Within Language & input (Languages), click again on Languages and then in Add input languages / Add a languages.
- Finally, we look for the Spanish that we want to use, since Spanish from Spain is not the same as Spanish from Mexico, that the Spanish of Argentina, that the Spanish of the United States ...
It is important to select the one that corresponds to our country, since each language has a different dictionary, although in Spanish most of the words mean and are spelled the same.
Change the system language in iOS
On iOS we will never have this problem, since, during the configuration menu, Spanish is always shown as the language when configuring in the terminal, regardless of where you buy it.
Add Spanish keyboard on Android
If the keyboard that shows our smartphone shows the English layout, without the ñ, we must add Spanish keyboard, performing the steps that I show you below.
- First, we access the adjustments of our device.
- In Settings, click on Languages and text input and then in Virtual keyboard.
- Then we select the keyboard that we use on our smartphone. In our case it is Google's Gboard.
- Then click on Add keyboard and we look for the Spanish of our country.
Add Spanish keyboard on iOS
- Access the menu Settings.
- Within Settings, click on the menu General and then in Keyboard.
- Next, we click again on Keyboard (The number shown corresponds to the number of keyboards we have installed in the device).
- In the next window, click on Add new keyboard and we select the Spanish of our country or area.
How to switch between different language keyboards
As I have commented above, if the letter ñ has disappeared from our keyboard, without us having touched any section of the configuration of our equipment, it is probably due to the fact that we have changed the keyboard language without realizing it.
Switch between different language keyboards on Android
In the previous section I have explained how add keyboards of different languages on a smartphone, which allows us to use the automatic corrector for each language avoiding having to confirm all the words that we write as correct.
To switch between the different keyboards that we have installed on our Android device, we just have to click on the globe which is on the right side of the space bar.
Depending on the keyboard we have, the space bar will show first, the selected language. In the image above we see that, as the English language is selected, EN is displayed first and ES second.
If Spanish were set on the keyboard, ES-EN would be displayed.
Switch between different language keyboards on iOS
To switch between the different keyboard languages that we have installed on our iOS device, we must click on the globe located at the bottom of the keyboard, if it is an iPhone or to the right of the space bar if it is an iPad.