Tatar letters ө, ү and ң now sit on the iPhone keyboard, and iOS 27 adds Yakut and Tuvan layouts

After the iOS 27.2 update, the Tatar letters ө, ү and ң can be typed on the iPhone's Russian keyboard. A long press on the base key is enough: «о» gives ө, «у» gives ү, «н» gives ң. No separate keyboard has to be installed.

iOS 27 also added keyboard layouts for the Yakut (Sakha) and Tuvan languages. The news came from Ali Kuzhuget, a Tuvan iOS developer and language-technology researcher, on his Telegram channel, and Tatar-Inform reported it on 10 November.

Kuzhuget says the letters are only a first step: autocorrection and suggestions for these languages come next, and he is working on them.