Then like a hero appearing over the horizon, app extensions came to the rescue! These give you the ability to provide content to apps outside of your own. Your only option was to create a custom input view to UITextField and UITextView, which meant you could only use your custom keyboard from within your own application. Not all features are available on iPad.Until iOS 8, your ability to create a custom keyboard in iOS was very limited. Word Flow on iOS is optimized for iPhone, and supports English language only. If a result becomes outdated or irrelevant, you can always remove or refresh it.

When you find something you want to send, just tap it, and that result will automatically stay in your history to make it even easier to find it again. Look up restaurants, news, videos, facts, weather forecasts, and much more.Find Contacts – when you need to share that person’s phone number.Find and share GIFs, images, and emojis to better express yourself.Switch to Arc mode and easily reach keys on larger screens for a more comfortable one-handed typing experience.All the images included with the app are free.You can customize the keyboard background using one of the images included in the app, or use your own favorite image.With access to your Contacts, Word Flow predicts the names of your contacts so you can go even faster.Word Flow intelligently suggests the next word in your sentence, and gets better at it over time, as it learns your typing patterns.It even predicts things from the web, like GIFs, restaurants, and more.

Whether you’re tapping or swiping, Word Flow predicts what you’re trying to type and corrects mistakes.

Word Flow, a Microsoft Garage project, is an iOS app with a blazing fast keyboard that comes with search (GIFs, restaurants, and more), free customization options and includes Arc mode for comfortable one-handed typing. The SwiftKey product team is frequently building and evaluating new features for SwiftKey and shipping updates. The Word Flow experiment is now complete! We encourage you to download the SwiftKey Keyboard from the App Store.

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