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As expected, iOS 9 brings a new font and a big change to the keyboard

By Alan Friedman

Updated: Jun 08, 2015, 4:31 PM

As expected, iOS 9 brings a new font and a big change to the keyboard

With the introduction of iOS 9 at WWDC today, Apple made official a couple of changes to its mobile OS that affect the way that it looks. First of all, iOS 9 replaces the Helvetica font with the San Francisco font used on the Apple Watch. The latter is said to offer improved readability. The Helvetica font was introduced with the major design changes made to iOS 7.

Additionally, iOS 9 finally ends an annoying feature that made typing on the iPhone and iPad a little more difficult than it had to be. Since the beginning, the iOS keyboard always showed the upper-case form of each letter even if the phone was shifted to lower-case. Other platforms, including Android, dynamically change the look of each letter on the keyboard depending on the position of the shift key. With iOS 9, the iPhone and iPad's virtual QWERTY will do the same thing.

Developers get first crack at iOS 9 starting today. Apple will open its public beta program for iOS 9 next month.

Changes coming to the font and QWERTY keyboard on iOS 9

source: AppleInsider

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Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.

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