While we’ve seen third-party keyboards like Google’s Gboard offer tactile feedback for a while, many people prefer to stay on the native iOS keyboard. One of the big reasons is privacy, as third-party keyboards often require access to monitor all of your keyboard input. Fortunately, Apple has delivered a tactile iPhone keyboard with iOS 16, however, it is disabled by default.

Touch iPhone keyboard: Turn it on in iOS 16

IOS 16 is currently available as a beta for developers. The free public beta of iOS 16 is due in July. Learn more about installing iOS 16 in our complete guide. See how to turn on the touch keyboard in iOS 16: After turning on the tactile keyboard, you can also turn off the sound effect for comments from the keyboard. As you would expect, unlike audio keyboard feedback, tactile keyboard feedback works when your iPhone is set to ring or be silent. You may notice more changes to “Haptics” at the bottom of the main Sounds & Haptics settings page in “Play Haptics in Ring Mode”, “Play Haptics in Silent Mode” and more. But these will not turn off or enable the iPhone Touch Keyboard setting you just turned on.

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