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There is one thing I hope they that they fix in iOS, and that is to guide app-makers to understand bilingual users, I type a lot on both danish and english, and having to switch language in the keyboard for every conversation can get pretty tiresome.

Luckily both iMessage and WhatsApp seems to support it now, so I hope they somehow can get other apps in on it. Telegram does not support this :/

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Try 3rd-party keyboards like Swiftkey, where keyboard/autocorrect is bilingual, so no more switching needed (now I would only need a trilingual keyboard for my use case...).

This. Swiftkey solved this problem for me. The only remaining problem is that iOS is so annoyingly buggy wrt third-party keyboards.

Bilingual user here. I think predictive typing is a keyboard issue, not an app issue, and the iOS keyboard has been smart enough to use dictionaries in both languages without switching since iOS 9 or 10.

Not every language.

It actually works with the native keyboard between Spanish and English but not between Dutch and Spanish or English. I just start typing in English while it's on Spanish and after one or two words it will autocorrect in English and vice versa. I guess Danish and Dutch are too niche at the moment.

Also Siri is pretty much useless. E.g. It's simply impossible to ask Siri to play my German podcasts when I set Siri to English. I have podcasts in three languages (German, English and Swedish).

Also maps does not pronounce street names natively when I know the language. I have a much harder time understanding the weirdly pronounced stuff maps tells me.

Can you explain what you mean? I type in both English and German. On latest iOS 10, regardless of which keyboard I have selected, I can start typing in either language and word prediction/autocomplete/spellcheck pretty quickly picks up which language I'm using.

Hmmm, maybe I don’t type in German enough but iOS has always given me trouble with German words trying to correct them to English words.

You may need to have the German dictionary installed.

I admit I'd never even considered that. I suppose the ideal is to remember the active keyboard language for different documents as well as chats, so most apps should be looking at this.

iMessage has done this since iOS 6. iOS 10 lets you type in two languages on the one keyboard and not fluff around with autocorrect.

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