iPad onscreen keyboard

Cadfiel

Not grumpy
I love my ipad but damn, the onscreen keyboard is dire. Shift this, then shift again to get some quite common additional characters, where as on android, its press and hold for the other character on the keyboard.

Anyone know of a way of changing, replacing it or any other little tips as the thing seems to have at least 3 keyboard variants as it is and 2 of them are shocking, the 3rd isnt great, but its not as bad as the others.
 
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