Switching Between System Keyboards
iOS 8 includes additional system keyboards that you access from special keys on the iOS 8 keyboard. To display the numbers and symbols keyboard, tap the .?123 key (see Figure 8). Tap the Smiley key (see Figure 9) to display the Emoji keyboard, which offers a wide range of smileys (see Figure 10). Tap the ABC icon at the bottom of the Emoji keyboard to return to the standard text-entry keyboard.
![Figure 8](/content/images/art_spangenberg4_keybds/elementLinks/spangenberg4_fig08.jpg)
Figure 8 Tap the .?123 key to display the numbers and symbols keyboard.
![Figure 9](/content/images/art_spangenberg4_keybds/elementLinks/spangenberg4_fig09.jpg)
Figure 9 Tap the Smiley key to use Apple’s Emoji (smiley) keyboard.
![Figure 10](/content/images/art_spangenberg4_keybds/elementLinks/spangenberg4_fig10.jpg)
Figure 10 Apple’s Emoji keyboard offers hundreds of graphical symbols.