Time to say goodbye to Swype

The keyboard app responsible for making swipeable virtual keyboard an essential feature is going away. Nuance, the company who bought Swype around six years ago, just announced it’s discontinuing the app for both iOS and Android. Users can still use it as normal and will continue to have access to tech support in the coming months despite it being taken out of the app stores. Nuance it seems wants to put its focus on its other products, specifically mentioning their artificial intelligence-powered solutions.

In a statement sent to The Verge, Nuance said, “the core technology behind Swype will continue to be utilized and improved upon across other Nuance offerings—and integrated into our broader AI-powered solutions—most notably in Android-based keyboard solutions for our automotive customers.”

Microsoft's Windows Mobile Word Flow keyboard coming to iOS

Word Flow keyboard has long been one of the highly praised features on Windows Phone and was used to break the Guinness World Record for fastest texting. We are now working on extending this keyboard to other platforms, starting with iOS. - Microsoft

Microsoft is going to make the predictive and swipe-enabled Word Flow keyboard, previously exclusive to Lumias and Windows Phone devices, to iOS. iPhones and iPads have had the ability to run third party keyboards since iOS 8 and Apple has improved the functionality and ease of use of their stock keyboard. 

Microsoft seems to be in the testing phase and is looking to send out invitations to beta users willing to test the Word Flow keyboard on their iPhones.

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Swype adds 16 new languages and emoji suggestions to iOS app

In case you’ve been living under a rock, you can now use third-party keyboards on iOS 8. Nuance is hoping you give Swype a try with its latest update. The keyboard gets support for 16 new languages, bringing the total to 21. Some of the added languages include Greek, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, and Hinglish (Hindi and English hybrid).

Swype also now suggests emojis depending on the words you type. So if you type happy words, you’ll be able to see celebratory emojis showing up.

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