How do I get sogou chinese input on my iPhone?

June 15, 2011 7:53 PM

How do I get sogou chinese input on my iPhone? The default Chinese input in iPhone sucks, sogou or the equivalent (QQ input) is a million times better, but how can I get it on my iPhone? I had it on my old android.
posted by Patrick Leo to Technology (4 answers total)

Settings>General>International>Keyboards>Add new keyboard

Chinese - Simplified Pinyin is in there. I think this was added in the version 4 software update.
The language of the phone is a separate setting, so change that to whatever you want, and you can have more than one keyboard installed, that you switch between using a button on the bottom left of the keypad when typing.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 8:36 PM on June 15, 2011

Response by poster: I already have that one installed. That is the default Chinese pinyin input method, and it is worthless. I want a more high quality one, like QQ, or SUGOU.
posted by Patrick Leo at 9:37 PM on June 15, 2011

Best answer: Your iPhone needs to be jailbroken and have Cydia installed. Here are Cydia sources for a few different input methods:

Sogou: http://cydia.sogou.com/
QQ: http://www.qcydia.com/
Baidu: http://mi.baidu.com/
FIT: http://cydia.fit4.cn/

Most of these, as well as a lot of other Chinese software is available from the Weiphone cydia repository: http://apt.weiphone.com/
posted by twisted mister at 12:16 AM on June 16, 2011 [3 favorites]

Following up on the above comment, here's a current-but-brief guide to jailbreaking.

If this comment is inappropriate, please delete.
posted by box at 4:15 AM on June 16, 2011