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 Tap the .?123 key to display the numbers and symbols keyboard.

Figure 9 Tap the Smiley key to use Apple’s Emoji (smiley) keyboard.

Figure 10 Apple’s Emoji keyboard offers hundreds of graphical symbols.