Keyboard language switch to QWERTY with all numeric keyboardType

Description:

It seems that when your keyboard language isn’t set to English (US) and you focus on a TextInput with a keyboardType=“numeric” prop, it will change the keyboard language to English (US).

I tried with “number-pad”, “decimal-pad”, “numeric”, “phone-pad”. None of them works as expected. I tried with different languages:

Issues appear on French (France) German (Germany) Italian

No issue Arabic, Najdi

React Native version:

System:
  OS: macOS 10.15.1
  CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz
  Memory: 1.14 GB / 16.00 GB
  Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
  Node: 10.16.3 - /usr/local/bin/node
  Yarn: 1.15.2 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
  npm: 6.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
SDKs:
  iOS SDK: 
   Platforms: iOS 13.2, DriverKit 19.0, macOS 10.15, tvOS 13.2, watchOS 6.1
IDEs: 
  Android Studio: 3.4 AI-183.6156.11.34.5522156
  Xcode: 11.3/11C29 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
npmPackages:
  react: 16.9.0 => 16.9.0 
  react-native: 0.61.5 => 0.61.5 
npmGlobalPackages:
  react-native-cli: 2.0.1

Steps To Reproduce

1- Start your iOS simulator 2- Go to Settings / General / Keyboard 3- Make sure you have English (US) and French (France) keyboards 4- then:

react-native init keyboardSwitchToQwerty

5- Edit your App.js file as below:

const App = () => (
  <View>
    <TextInput />
    <TextInput keyboardType="decimal-pad" />
  </View>
);

6- Open the app 7- Set your keyboard to French (France) and switch between the two <TextInput /> 8- Issu: Your keyboard will automatically switch to English (US)

Expected Results

The keyboards shouldn’t switch to English (US) by itself. It should stay on the French (France):

To make this GIF possible, I removed the English (US) keyboard from Settings

[devpolo]

Any news?

[morgane1806]

I finally found a solution that worked for me 😁

Issue

This is an IOS issue, when you use a numeric keyboard, it changes the keyboard language and uses app default language : variable CFBundleDevelopmentRegion –> In my case CFBundleDevelopmentRegion was “en”, that’s why it transformed azerty keyboard to qwerty keyboard

Solution

Solution that worked for me : Remove the following 2 lines in info.plist

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>en</string>