FirstVoices Keyboards 4+
First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council
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- Free
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Description
The latest ground-breaking FirstVoices innovation from the First Peoples' Cultural Council is an Indigenous language keyboard app for Apple mobile devices.
The FirstVoices Keyboard App contains keyboard software for over 100 languages, and includes every First Nations language in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus many languages in the USA.
When the FirstVoices Keyboard app is installed on an iPhone or iPad, any one of the 100+ custom keyboards can be activated in any application on the device. Users are able to select their keyboard(s) of choice within their email, social media, word processing or other apps, enabling unlimited communication in their mother language.
Interested in learning more about FirstVoices and our other Indigenous language apps? Please email First Peoples' Cultural Council: info@firstvoices.com.
What’s New
Version 18.0.242
Published on 2025-09-18.
* fix(web): fix error trying to calculate style scaling effects (#14696)
* Minor fixes and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
iOS 15 update
This app is great and wonderful but with iOS 15 update the keyboard isn’t working. Other than that this app is amazing.
There is a really bad bug in this app, the permissions need to be reset.
Why Deleting Gboard and IPA Didn’t Work Immediately:
• Deleting other third-party keyboards should, in theory, force iOS to recognize FirstVoices. However, since the cache or system still holds onto keyboard hierarchy data, simply removing Gboard or IPA doesn’t always refresh the keyboard list.
Why This Can Be Persistent:
• If iOS doesn’t refresh the keyboard list properly, even reinstalling the app won’t help immediately.
• This is why resetting the keyboard dictionary, resetting all settings, or even hard rebooting is required – to force iOS to refresh the keyboard environment.
Apple’s Handling of Third-Party Keyboards:
• Apple has been restrictive and buggy with third-party keyboards since their introduction in iOS 8. The system often prioritizes security and privacy, leading to unpredictable behavior when managing non-Apple keyboards.
• Apple’s default keyboards don’t require “Full Access,” but most third-party keyboards do, creating a discrepancy in how they are handled by the OS.
Make sure to fix this bug, and I'm finding out if the third-party keyboard still appears in the globe button in the keyboard.
Missing a letter “ǧ” in Lakota
As someone learning Lakota I noticed that “ ǧ “ was nowhere to be seen on the keyboard. Aside from that as far as I can tell the rest of the stuff on the keyboard looks great 🧡
App Privacy
The developer, First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- First Peoples Heritage Language and Culture Council
- Size
- 19.8 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- Learn More
- Copyright
- © 2025 SIL International, First Peoples' Cultural Foundation
- Price
- Free