The Swiftkey keyboard from Microsoft will stop being supported for iOS, however it will continue its operation for Android and Windows.
Microsoft will discontinue its SwiftKey keyboard software for iOS and remove it from the App Store , according to a statement made to ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley when asked about the software's future.
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“Starting October 5, support for SwiftKey iOS will end and be removed from the Apple App Store,” said Chris Wolfe, SwiftKey’s director of product management. “Microsoft will continue to support SwiftKey Android as well as the underlying technology that powers the Windows. For customers who have installed SwiftKey on iOS, it will continue to work until it is manually uninstalled or the user acquires a new device.”
The iOS version of SwiftKey was last updated in August 2021. Most updates in the year prior were not of the “bug fixes and performance improvements”. Microsoft bought SwiftKey in 2016 for $250 million, both for its iOS and Android software keyboards and their underlying technology.
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Third-party keyboard support in iOS was first added in iOS 8 in 2014. Apple still maintains some restrictions on where keyboards like Swiftkey can and can't be used—they can't be used to type passwords, and they may not be allowed on phones that are locked and using device management (MDM) software . Apple has added some of the most common third-party keyboard features, including searchable emoji and swiping-to-type , to the built-in iOS keyboard in recent years.
Source: arstechnica.com
