All 121 features, in one place.

• Autocorrect on the space bar

  When you finish a word, a mistyped one becomes the word you most likely meant, and the alternatives stay in the bar.

• Autocorrect per language

  With several languages on, switch correction off for one and keep it for the others.

• Correction strength

  One control from Gentle to Strong. Gentle fixes only what it is sure of.

• Undo a correction

  Backspace straight after a correction, or the undo chip, puts your word back, and that correction is not made on you again.

• Corrections that fit the sentence

  An on-device sentence model ranks the candidates by how well each one fits what you have written so far.

• Real-word slips

  A typo that is itself a real word, like then for than, is fixed, but only when the sentence clearly calls for the other word.

• Accent restoration

  Type a word without its accents and the accented spelling is written for you.

• Accents chosen by the words around them

  Where a word is right both with and without its accent, the neighbouring words decide.

• Second look at a restored accent

  If an accent it added turns out wrong once the next word arrives, it quietly takes it back.

• Apostrophes restored

  dont becomes don’t, and elisions get their apostrophe back, even ones no word list holds.

• Long-way spellings

  The letter pairs people type for a letter their keyboard lacks are read as that letter.

• Missed spaces

  Two words run together, because the space bar was missed or a letter was hit instead, are split back apart.

• Shift held a letter too long

  THe becomes The: two capitals before lower case is shift still held. Acronyms like CDs and IDs are left alone.

• Stray spaces

  A space hit in the middle of a word, get ting, is closed up into getting.

• Mistyped dot read as a space

  A full stop hit instead of the space bar is read as the space.

• The next word can fix the last

  Some typos only become clear once the next word is written. It goes back one word and fixes it, with the undo chip showing.

• Fix the whole message

  One tap repairs spelling, accents and missed spaces across the message, says how many words it changed, and one more tap puts them back.

• Word endings left alone

  An ending you meant is not “fixed” into another form of the word, while a mistapped last letter still is.

• Leaves addresses and code alone

  Web and e-mail addresses, file names, handles and camelCase are left as typed.

• Correction across languages

  With two languages on, a word is judged in the language you are writing, so the other cannot hijack a correction.

• A corrector that knows when to stop

  A small on-device network decides at the space bar whether to correct at all, so a word typed right is left alone more often.

• Stretched words are offered, not corrected

  sooo stays sooo. The plain word waits in the bar, in case.

• Quotes and brackets that close

  A closing quote or bracket typed after a space hugs the word it closes.

• Capitals at the start of a sentence

  Shift comes on by itself at the start of a sentence.

• Double space for a full stop

  Two taps on the space bar end the sentence with a full stop and a space.

• Spacing before ; : ! ?

  In languages that set these marks off with a space, it is the narrow no-break one, so a line never starts with the mark.

Why iPhone autocorrect changes the wrong words

• Suggestion bar

  Three slots like Apple’s: what you typed, the likeliest word, and the next guess.

• Word completion

  Start a word and the bar offers ways to finish it, your own words included.

• Predictions from the whole sentence

  A small sentence model for each language runs on the phone and predicts from everything written so far.

• Whole phrases

  Something you write often, a greeting or a sign-off, is offered in one tap.

• Emoji suggestions

  After a word that has an emoji, the emoji is offered in the bar, in each of your languages.

• No profanity until you type it

  Strong words are not offered from a two-letter start. Once you type one yourself, it is offered like any other.

• Words from earlier in the chat

  A name or topic from a few lines up comes back as a completion. Held in memory only.

How predictive text works on iPhone

• Swipe to type

  Drag across the letters to write a word. A short drag still just hits the key, so people who never swipe never trigger it.

• Swipe trail

  A trail follows your finger, so you can see the path being read.

• Swipes read in context

  The sentence so far, your own words and the sentence model help pick the word, not only the shape.

• Reads the shape of the gesture

  A small on-device model reads how you drew the word, not only how close it came to each key.

• Live preview while gliding

  While your finger is still down, the bar shows the word you are heading for.

• Swipe reaches your own words

  Names and words it learned from you can be swiped too.

• Undo a swipe

  Backspace straight after a swipe removes the word and leaves the runners-up in the bar.

• Your other language stays out of your swipes

  Swiping a word in the language you are writing does not produce a lookalike from the other one.

• Flow through space

  Glide through the space bar and on to the next word: one gesture, several words.

• Apostrophes and hyphens

  Words like don’t and I’m can be swiped.

• Remembered swipe picks

  Pick a runner-up after a swipe and the same gesture gives your choice next time.

• A wrong guess teaches nothing

  A swiped word is learned only once you keep it.

• Glide obeys shift and caps lock

  A swiped word follows shift and caps lock, like a typed one.

Swipe typing on iPhone

• Learns your words

  Names, slang and words the dictionary lacks are learned the second time you write them, then completed, swiped and never corrected.

• Your word pairs

  The words you tend to write after others feed the predictions.

• Your habit leads the predictions

  A word you nearly always write after another comes first in the bar after two sightings.

• Your spellings and openers

  It learns which spelling of a word you use, how you start sentences, and the phrases you repeat.

• Spellings you prefer

  Set a spelling you prefer and it is used from then on, without waiting to learn it.

• Learned repairs

  Fix the same typo by hand twice, or pick a correction from the bar, and it makes that repair for you next time.

• Your slips get cheaper to fix

  A slip you keep repairing by hand, the same two letters swapped or the same letter dropped, becomes cheaper to correct in every word.

• Corrections you refuse stay refused

  Undo a correction and it stops making it. Keeping your word over the same alternative twice counts too.

• Learned words that fade

  A word learned from a couple of sightings and never written again leaves, so an old typo cannot block corrections for ever. Words you added yourself stay.

• Names keep their capital

  A name keeps its capital, while an ordinary word first met at the start of a sentence is not capitalised for ever after.

• Contacts and Text Replacement in the bar

  Contact names and your iOS Text Replacements work as they do in Apple’s keyboard.

• Your own shortcuts

  Shortcuts that expand as you type, with several lines, the date or time, your last copied text, and where the cursor lands.

• Everything it learned, editable

  Every word, phrase, spelling and refusal it learned is a line you can read, edit or delete, in the app or on the keyboard.

• Back up and restore the dictionary

  Save everything it learned to a file, and restore it later or on a new phone.

• Learning progress and how it learns

  See how far it has got in learning you, and a page in plain words on how it learns and how it lets go.

• Adaptive key zones

  The gap between two keys leans towards the letter that could continue the word.

• Learns where your finger lands

  Each key’s hit zone moves to where your thumb actually lands on it.

Reset the keyboard dictionary, or fix just one word

• Forty languages

  Each with its own sentence model running on the phone.

• Languages that update themselves

  A newer release of a language you use downloads on its own, and the home screen says when one arrived.

• Removing a language frees its space

  Turning a language off frees its space. Its learned words are kept, so adding it back loses nothing.

• Automatic language detection

  With two or more languages on, it works out word by word which one you are writing. No switching by hand.

• Earlier words read again after a switch

  When it notices you changed language, the sentence so far gets a second look in the new one.

• Resume in the last language

  A fresh keyboard starts in the language you wrote last.

• Several languages at once

  A primary language plus English, sometimes a neighbouring language too, handled together in one sentence.

• Keyboard layout per language

  Pick the key arrangement your fingers know, QWERTZ, AZERTY and others, for each language.

• Right-to-left scripts

  Right-to-left languages type right to left, with the bar, cursor keys and backspace mirrored.

• Dotted and dotless i

  Languages that tell i from ı get the right capital for each.

• Type with Latin letters

  A language written in another script can be typed on the Latin keys and come out in its own letters. Off until you turn it on.

• One pack per written standard

  Where a language has more than one written standard, each has its own pack and corrects to its own spelling.

• Emoji search in your language

  Find emoji by keyword in any language you have on.

• Types from the first launch

  English is built in, so the keyboard works before anything downloads.

Type in two languages on iPhone without switching

• The layout you already know

  Key rows, sizes and legends follow Apple’s iPhone and iPad keyboards.

• Long-press accents

  Hold a letter for its accents. The strip shows only what your languages use.

• Numbers and symbols on long-press

  Digits on the top row’s long-presses, and optionally symbols on the rest.

• Flick up for the corner character

  Flick a key up for the small character in its corner, without waiting for the hold.

• Number row

  An optional row of digits above the letters.

• Your own symbol keys

  Make any key on the number and symbol planes type the character you actually use.

• Full stop and question mark keys

  Keys beside the space bar for the marks that end a sentence.

• Swipe back whole words

  Slide left off backspace to delete a word at a time, and back to bring them back.

• Space-bar trackpad

  Hold the space bar to move the cursor. Cursor keys on the bar handle the one-letter fix.

• Slide to switch language

  Slide along the space bar for the next language.

• Two bar layouts

  Apple’s three fixed slots, or a scrolling strip where each word is as wide as it needs.

• Tool row

  Swap the words for a row of tools you choose: clipboard, emoji, languages, don’t learn here and more.

• Paste chip

  For a minute after you copy something new, a Paste chip waits in the bar.

• Clipboard history

  Recent clips inside the keyboard, kept for an hour unless pinned.

• Emoji panel and search

  A full emoji picker that opens on your most used, remembers skin tones and searches in your languages.

• Emoji row

  An optional row of your pinned and most used emoji under the bar.

• Themes

  Built-in themes plus Automatic, which follows light and dark mode.

• Key fonts

  Draw the letters in the face you like, in every script.

• Your own theme

  Build one from your own colours or a photo, framed to the keyboard.

• Key opacity

  One slider makes every key see-through while the letters stay solid.

  New in 1.2.1

• Photo in the keys, or under glass

  Your photo behind the keys, inside each key, or under frosted-glass keys.

  New in 1.2.1

• Letter styles on the keys

  Draw the keys in one of 17 letter styles, at 80 to 130 % of the usual size.

  New in 1.2.1

• Type in styled letters

  Opt in and what you type comes out in a letter style, in any app. Corrections pause while it is on.

  New in 1.2.1

• Eight finished looks

  Glass, Neon, Terminal, Typewriter, Candy, Chalkboard, Gothic and Bubbles, each in light and dark, or Surprise me.

  New in 1.2.1

• Keyboard height and one-handed mode

  Compact, standard or tall, and one-handed to either side.

• Split thumb layout on iPad

  On iPad, the letters split into two halves against the edges, so both thumbs reach every key.

• Haptics and key clicks

  A tap under each key in your choice of style and strength, plus an optional click. iOS allows haptics only with Full Access on.

• Return key follows the field

  Return shows what the field asks for: send, go or search.

• Keys for addresses

  Web and e-mail fields get @ and . keys, and a long press on the full stop offers .com and its neighbours.

Change the keyboard theme on iPhone

• No networking in the keyboard

  The keyboard contains no code that could send anything anywhere, and the build fails if any ever gets in.

• Works with Full Access off

  Typing, correction, prediction, swipe, learning and every language. Full Access adds haptics and the clipboard.

• Don’t learn here

  Stop learning for the current field from the tool row.

• Clipboard read only when you ask

  So iOS’s paste banner never appears unasked.

• Contacts read, never copied

  Contact names are looked up live, so deleting a contact removes it from the keyboard too.

• Forget everything

  One action erases everything it learned, finger habits included.

What makes a keyboard private on iPhone

• Guided setup

  Turn it on, pick languages, keys and a style, then try it, one step at a time.

• Home

  Try the keyboard, and see what it has picked up so far.

• Help on every setting

  An ⓘ beside nearly every setting says what it does, what it changes, and what it depends on.

  New in 1.2.1

• Live preview

  Screens that change how the keyboard looks show the real keyboard as you change it.

• Theme editor

  Change colours, letters, the photo and the pressed colour of any look.

• Typing statistics

  Day-by-day counts kept on the phone: words, swipes, corrections and keystrokes saved.

• Tips

  Things it does that you would not find by typing, on the home screen.

• When Apple’s keyboard appears

  Why iOS swaps in its own keyboard in some fields, and how to get back.

  New in 1.2.1

• Report a wrong word

  Say what you typed and what came out, from inside the app.

Pilcrow and the iPhone keyboard, side by side