Pinyin Keyboard iPhone: China WeChat Chats Without Panic
Your iPhone Pinyin Keyboard Is a Small Setting With Big China Energy Picture this: you have just landed in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, or Beijing. Your luggage is still somewhere behind you, your data plan is working only after three restarts, and a classmate sends a WeChat message: “Can you join the group and introduce yourself?” You can read a few characters. You know “你好”. You may even have picked up some Mandarin back in Singapore from family, school, hawker-centre chats, or that one colleague who always orders in Mandarin. But typing Chinese on an iPhone? Wah, suddenly the simple “Hello, I’m from Singapore” becomes a ten-minute exercise in tapping, deleting, and wondering why shi gives you a whole parade of characters. ...