Persian Keyboard on iOS 5
This is how to enable persian keyboard on iOS 5 without a jailbreak.
Step 1.
First you need to backup your iDevice with iTunes
Step 2.
You need to get a copy of iBackupBot
Step 3.
Open iBackupBot and find the backup you just made, then load it.
Step 4.
Find Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist and open the file. (if your software isn’t registered you’ll have to press cancel and then it will open)
Step 5.
Find <key>AppleKeyboards</key> and after <array> add the following code <string>fa@hw=Persian;sw=Persian</string>
make sure it looks like the screenshot
Optional step to activate persian locale
Using the same Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist scroll down and find
<key>AppleLocale</key> <string>en_CA</string>
and change the string to fa
after:
<key>AppleLocale</key> <string>fa</string>
Step 6.
Restore your iDevice using iBackupBot, right click on your backup file and select Restore
Step 6.
Reboot your phone and you should have persian keyboard activated.
Thanks for this tutorial! I tried following these steps using JuicePhone 2.3 and JPHashChecker 0.1a and was able to enable Persian on my iPod touch 4th gen. iOS 5.0.1.
I opened my backup as a mirror, edited GlobalPreferences.plist, and ran JPHashChecker to make the backup appear uncorrupted to iTunes.
Thanks for this tutorial. Your work is greatly appreciated.
Best Regards from Germany!
Chris
Thanks for the great tutorial. If this works, my only problem with my iOS devices will be solved without needing them to be jailbroken.
After backup & restore with iBackupBot, can I then use iTunes to backup and sync files?
I’m sure you will be able to sync & backup just as you normally would.
No worries
Thanks.
after using ibackupbot to restore you can use itunes to backup or icloud. you do not need to be jailbroken to backup or do this mod.
Thanks again. Works great with my iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Everything works fine after sync
This was exciting but didn’t work for me here is what I put in my backup :
AppleKeyboards
en_US@hw=US;sw=QWERTY
fa@hw=Persian;sw=Persian
Then I restored it successfully but no persian keyboard. also no persian keyboard under settings .
I skipped the optional step .
I tried on iphone 3GS with IOS 5.0.1
Any thoughts ?
make sure you use ibackupbot to restore after you edit your file
your blog removes those array and string tags in comment area
Yes , I used ibackupbot to restore . I also made another backup via iTunes afterwards . I opened this new backup with ibackupbot and I can see the changes . still no persian keyboards. do I need to do the optional step too ?
add emoji keyboard via Stings-General-Keyboards on the iDevice and try the process again.
Great job! But I’ve got a jailbroken one, any direct solution to enable Persian keyboard option in the settings?
Download iFile from Cydia and follow the instructions on the iDevice.
Thanks and I already have iFile installed and ready to work, where can I find the instructions of iDevice?
thanks so much. I would just add that you need to in file go to settings show hidden files. once I found that I was able to fix it easily
Again thank you.
that was great! Thanks for that awesome post. To me it seems that Apple has developed everything for Persian keyboard/language/…, but has not made the option active. Anyone an idea?
That was great! thanks
did all i had to, but unfortunately didn’t work out for my ipod touch 4 with the 5.0.1 ios firmware!
Nice , thanks
Thanks a lot. It worked for me on my iPad2 iOS 5.0.1.
Hi again.
In above picture you have Persian calendar too. Is there a similar method to enable that too?
Sorry. Dumb question. Just found the answer in your tutorial.
Thanks ALOT!!!
works like a charm on iPAD2 .
didn’t work on iPhone 3GS for some reason . still .. amazing . thanks a lot.
How does that work?
Can u please explain me?
Mail to me!
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Can this way be used to install other unsupported keyboard?
Plz reply me thanks
100% worked for iphone 4 and ipad 2 (iOS 5.0.1 jailbroken)
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It was amazing.I hate arabic keyboard!!
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4S and I am trying to use iFile to find the .plist file, but I can’t figure out where? Can anyone that used ifile tell me the right path on 5.0.1