Unusable with iOS 26.2.1.
This issue seems to be fixed with iOS version 26.4
I have been using MessagEase since the days of the Palm Pilots.
After a few minutes, becomes as large as the entire screen, making it too big to type on. Delete and reinstall, and the same thing happens.
I have been using MessagEase since the days of the Palm Pilots.
After a few minutes, becomes as large as the entire screen, making it too big to type on. Delete and reinstall, and the same thing happens.
Beg for update
Please update the keyboard for iOS, every now and then it gets huge and I have to reinstall it. I use this keyboard for at least ten years now. Please update and fix the buggies
Please fix the bugs!!
This has been my preferred keyboard for many years but it desperately needs updating! Every so often, i open an app, go to type and the keyboard is humongous, taking up the whole screen and it can't be reduced when swiping down on the globe so i have to oelete the keyboard, re-download & reconfigure my settings. Where did you all go? Please update this app!!!!! I'm still going to use it as qwerty keyboards are awful
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Unusable with iOS 26.2.1.
I have been using MessagEase since the days of the Palm T|X.
After a few minutes, becomes as large as the entire screen, making it too big to type on. Delete and reinstall, and the same thing happens.
After a few minutes, becomes as large as the entire screen, making it too big to type on. Delete and reinstall, and the same thing happens.
Amazing!
This makes using all parts of my phone easier! If no more updates will be released, please make the app open source!
The ONLY usable keyboard!
After learning where most of its keys are, this unique keyboard lets me type faster and FAR more accurately than traditional screen keyboards, with much less hastle. This keyboard isn't just a novelty item. Without this keyboard, I'd literally almost never use my iPhone (or any other phone). I'm willing to pay $$$ for this totally free app.
I BEG the programmer to continue maintaining this app or find a way to make it perpetually available. (Maybe sell the app's rights and code to Apple.) This keyboard is amazingly efficient. The only improvement I would make is on its cursor navigation, perhaps model it after the cursor navigation in iPhone's default keyboard.
For the last few weeks this app was somewhat broken on my phone, but tonight I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and now it works perfectly. I think the issue was just a corrupted file on my phone, but it scared me because I'm so reliant on this app that I use almost all the time.
Note that this keyboard doesn't have voice typing or word prediction (which I don't care about), but these features are easily had by briefly jumping to a different keyboard.
I've tried Microsoft SwiftKey, KBD Maker, and the iPhone's default keyboard, and they are each basically useless and prone to similar typing quirks.
I BEG the programmer to continue maintaining this app or find a way to make it perpetually available. (Maybe sell the app's rights and code to Apple.) This keyboard is amazingly efficient. The only improvement I would make is on its cursor navigation, perhaps model it after the cursor navigation in iPhone's default keyboard.
For the last few weeks this app was somewhat broken on my phone, but tonight I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and now it works perfectly. I think the issue was just a corrupted file on my phone, but it scared me because I'm so reliant on this app that I use almost all the time.
Note that this keyboard doesn't have voice typing or word prediction (which I don't care about), but these features are easily had by briefly jumping to a different keyboard.
I've tried Microsoft SwiftKey, KBD Maker, and the iPhone's default keyboard, and they are each basically useless and prone to similar typing quirks.
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Keeps filling the screen
The keyboard takes up all the screen with no way of making it half the size. Starts of normal when downloaded then glitches and needs uninstalling and redownloading. Needs an update to fix this.
great tool. totally abandoned.
I'm currently on iOS 26.2 and, as of 26.0, this keyboard displays only in a slightly garbled full-screen mode. I want it back!!
someone else suggested open-sourcing it, which would be great. I would also pay for a maintained version...
is there a way to wrest this keyboard's design away and write our own version? I don't want to invite legal trouble but I'M NOT GOING BACK TO QWERTY!
someone else suggested open-sourcing it, which would be great. I would also pay for a maintained version...
is there a way to wrest this keyboard's design away and write our own version? I don't want to invite legal trouble but I'M NOT GOING BACK TO QWERTY!
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Баг
Очень люблю вашу клавиатуру, пользуюсь много лет, но после смены 12го айфона на 17 клавиатура открывается на весь экран, ее невозможно уменьшить и пользоваться неудобно ( может вы сможете с этим что-то сделать?
buggy on ios26
for anyone here looking for solutions to the ios26 update bugs try removing the default ios keyboard that fixed it for me
needs essential feature
it needs to be resizable , and I need to be able to use my text replacement library .
Needs update
Please update to ios 26. The keyboard is massive on screen and can’t be resized.
лучшая клавиатура для смартфонов
Не покупал айфон только потому, что была плохая интеграция сторонних клавиатур в систему. Теперь с iOS8 начиная полностью можно пользоваться.
Русский язык добавляется в настройках самой программы, а не в настройках системы как английский. Переключаться между раскладками можно двойным росчерком влево-вправо с кнопки 123. Вообще, жестами тут можно выделять, вырезать, удалять, копировать, вставлять. Всё есть в хэлпе.
У программы есть косяки в интерфейсе. Например, при написании текста курсор может уйти за нижний край экрана, скрыться за клавиатурой.
Рр
Русский язык добавляется в настройках самой программы, а не в настройках системы как английский. Переключаться между раскладками можно двойным росчерком влево-вправо с кнопки 123. Вообще, жестами тут можно выделять, вырезать, удалять, копировать, вставлять. Всё есть в хэлпе.
У программы есть косяки в интерфейсе. Например, при написании текста курсор может уйти за нижний край экрана, скрыться за клавиатурой.
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buggy on ios26
please update for ios26, it works for non-apple apps, but on anything apple made, it will grow to around 80% of the screen and can't be resized. I had it working for a little but now its back and I can't figure out what triggers the bug. I love this keyboard and it's become essential for me. If you aren't going to maintain it, please open source it, its valuable and y'all don't seem to have any interest in maintaining it.
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No more letters
Updated to ios26 and now there are no letters visible
Make it open-source
Since no one has been maintaining this app it would be fair to open-source it so we can patch the current issues and achieve the long term support and compatibility for next versions of iOS. Alternatively, put a price on it, fix the bugs and keep it updated. I have been using this app for 10+ years and find it irreplaceable.
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Incredible Keyboard!
It is amazing how superior this keyboard is to qwerty! Everything is right here on one keyboard! Letters, numbers, symbols, emojis. Keep up the great work!
Layout is imperfect and not customizable
I just switched over from android and was happy to find something similar to Unexpected Keyboard. I have some problems with the layout in MessageEase though. It has every ASCII character except for the backtick, which is used all the time in certain programming languages. Instead it has several non-ascii characters and “.com”, which are just a bit random and I’ll never use them. I’m not saying you should change the layout, because this layout is perfect for someone and my layout would be imperfect for someone else. Instead, I think that you should make the layout customizable.
You don’t need to create a UI for editing the layout. If you store the layouts in some text based format like JSON then you can just let users enter their JSON, since these will mostly be advanced users anyways. If you currently hardcode the layouts or use some binary format, then this might require some deeper code changes. But I’m guessing it would still be easier than building a whole UI.
Something to consider. Thank you for creating something awesome!
Edit: I was wrong, it does have the backtick, and you can turn off auto accents in the settings. And I see that customization was planned for future development. So then all I’m trying to say is that if anyone ever works on this again, they should consider using text instead of UI for the customization.
Also, is anyone maintaining this? You guys should open source this, I would maintain it!
You don’t need to create a UI for editing the layout. If you store the layouts in some text based format like JSON then you can just let users enter their JSON, since these will mostly be advanced users anyways. If you currently hardcode the layouts or use some binary format, then this might require some deeper code changes. But I’m guessing it would still be easier than building a whole UI.
Something to consider. Thank you for creating something awesome!
Edit: I was wrong, it does have the backtick, and you can turn off auto accents in the settings. And I see that customization was planned for future development. So then all I’m trying to say is that if anyone ever works on this again, they should consider using text instead of UI for the customization.
Also, is anyone maintaining this? You guys should open source this, I would maintain it!
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Doesn't work on almost any app
I installed it on my iPhone 12 Pro Max, activated it in the keyboards section of the settings menu as instructed, and even gave it 'full access.' The only app I can get it to show up in is Discord. Notes, safari, Skype, and any others do not have it as an option.
In MessagEase itself, the Settings option saysjIlmust grant it full access to open the menu. I have, and it still says that.
So the app seems not to install properly.
In MessagEase itself, the Settings option saysjIlmust grant it full access to open the menu. I have, and it still says that.
So the app seems not to install properly.
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Fantastic!
Messagease is fantastic! All letters, punctuation, numbers and symbols on a single compact keyboard!!!! Amazing! How creative! I will never go back to having to switch to a different keyboard just to enter a period!! Or even a δ or Δ!!
