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Re:iPhones are hard to use by ovi256 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:17AM (#18281651)
It's not an outlier for me. Most people I know switch between English for work and international friends and the local language for mostly everything else.

I'm switching languages I type in every whatsapp conversation.

On an older Android version that doesn't track per chat language, I have to switch the keyboard every single time. Three languages. And I happen to know more.

Re:iPhones are hard to use by pdpi on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:28AM (#18281707)
I switch between languages all the time too. Mostly, I just type whichever language I want, and the keyboard figures out it’s one of the two I use frequently and doesn’t bother me. Failing that, there’s a button next to the dictation button to change languages if autocomplete is acting up (this whole post was written with the keyboard set to Portuguese with only one miscorrection thus far).

You don’t need to change the whole OS’s language to type in multiple languages!

Re:iPhones are hard to use by schrodinger on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:50AM (#18282285)
You’re talking about switching the keyboard language, which is easy to do all the time. The parent is talking about changing the language of the entire phones UI, which seems like something you’d do significantly less frequently than changing the keyboard.
Re:iPhones are hard to use by fit2rule on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:38AM (#18290658)
Actually, I'd do it frequently if I could, since I live in a multi-lingual household.