If you want to move away from the default keyboard that comes built into your iPhone, you can install custom keyboards on your phone. From the introduction of the iPhone until 2014, Apple offered a single keyboard option (in many languages) for writing emails, texts, and other text. While Apple stuck with that traditional keyboard, alternative keyboards started appearing for Android. Eventually, with iOS 8, Apple got on board and introduced alternative keyboards in the form of third-party apps.

To use an alternative keyboard on iPhone, you'll need:

Here's how to find and install a new keyboard:

On your iPhone, open the App Store and tap Search at the bottom of the screen.