Hey Aine it sounds like your looking for standard typing sadly the only way to change this is via the router when in an edit field. as for the dictation this is also on my phone. I also have the select keyboard button as I use the one to get the various wee smiley faces etc so perhaps you have selected another keyboard which you can flick between, here is the steps to check this 1. go into settings. 2. go to general. 3. swipe to keyboard. 4. then swipe again until you here keyboard, before you double tap to open this will tell you how many keyboards you have ie I have three english, english UK and emoji 5. if there appears to be more than you need double tap to open, tap on edit and here you will get an option to rearrange or delete the unwanted keyboard. do hope that helps yours Jackie Sent from Jackie's iPhone > On 15 Jan 2014, at 22:04, "Aine O'Mahony" <ainemaeomahony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi I have a problem all of a sudden with the built in keyboard on my phone it > seems. > I used to be able to double tap each letter to select that letter e.g double > tap h then double tap i, then when I hit the space bar it would read what I > had typed example hi. > Some how my keyboard has changed when I hit a key once it doesnt say the > letter I have chosen and selects it straight away! also there is new keys > like dictation, choose other keyboard etc, I have triple tapped letters and > this seems to allow me to select sometimes but it is painstaking. I would > like it to return to its origional layout. > Also I thankfully have used siri but he sometimes just cant take requests at > that particular time. Does anyone have a suggestion also its not just in > messages that I cant text because of this, if I am requested a password or > have to type a note or anything that requires typing or an edit box, the same > keyboard is there!?!? > Many thanks > Aine Mae