Everything Keyboard

Spelling and grammar now work with no connection and no permission at all. Their and they're, its and it's, your and you're, "should of", "was wrote", "loose" for "lose" — the mistakes a spellchecker cannot see, because every word in them is spelled correctly. Thirty-five rules, all on your phone. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing needs Full Access, and it is free. You can give spelling and grammar a row of their own now, above the suggestion bar, so your corrections stay visible while you write instead of taking turns with everything else — and you can fix a second mistake without a panel opening over the keys. Fix all, in the bar. One tap, whole message. Twenty-seven text styles, up from eleven: serif, bold script, bold gothic, wide, squared, filled, bracketed, mirrored, alternating caps, and one that turns your message upside down. They are easier to find, too — they were called Styles, which is also what this app calls the shape of the keys. Six key sounds. Typewriter, with the carriage-return bell on the return key. Mechanical, thock, bubble, retro and water. None of them are recordings; they are generated on your phone, which is why no two keystrokes sound quite the same and why they add nothing to the download. Save your email, phone number or address once, and a field that asks for one offers it. Never in a password field — those belong to iOS. For hands that don't always do as they're told: a key can be set to need holding before it types, or to ignore a second press that wasn't meant. Reduce Motion is now respected, with a switch to keep the motion anyway. You can see what your typing looks like — how many keys, which ones, how fast, drawn over whichever layout you use. Counts only, never a word you typed, nothing from a password field, and it stays on your device. Translation stopped interrupting. It used to ask again on the next keystroke however many times you waved it away, and it sat above your spelling and grammar while it did. It waits on a button now. And a split keyboard, under Reach in Settings: two halves pinned to opposite edges, for a screen where a full-width row is a reach rather than a keyboard. Both thumbs get a space bar. Off unless you choose it — the keyboard does not rearrange itself the first time you turn the phone.