Apple expands Indigenous language support in iOS 27

Apple added Blackfoot, Comanche, and Northern East Cree to the iOS 27 keyboard, expanding Indigenous language support. The iOS keyboard now covers more than 200 languages, with Cherokee first added in 2010. The work spans Unicode encoding, fonts, and custom layouts built with communities.

• iOS 27 adds Blackfoot, Comanche, and Northern East Cree
• iOS keyboard supports over 200 languages and variants
• Cherokee was the first Native American language in iOS in 2010
• Encoding a language in Unicode takes three to five years