![]() And with no reason given, users can only speculate as to why Microsoft is consigning their long-running keyboard app to a slow death. ![]() Microsoft will continue support for SwiftKey Android as well as the underlying technology that powers the Windows touch keyboard. The announcement comes just a week before the app is scheduled to be delisted from the iOS App Store. When asked, director of product management at SwiftKey, Chris Wolfe, did provide a statement that simply said that 'As of October 5, support for SwiftKey iOS will end and it will be delisted from the Apple App Store. ![]() The above statement came from Chris Wolfe, Director of Product Management at SwiftKey. For those customers who have SwiftKey installed on iOS, it will continue to work until it is manually uninstalled or a user gets a new device. So Microsoft’s announcement came as a big shock for many, again myself included. Microsoft is officially discontinuing SwiftKey on iPhone and iPad, and pulling the app in a few days. ![]() “As of October 5, support for SwiftKey iOS will end and it will be delisted from the Apple App Store. First and foremost, SwiftKey is by far the best keyboard app out there, not only on iPhone but also on Android. Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard on Android phones is frequently updated, but while the keyboard also has a version for iPhone, it hasn’t been updated for a year. The news comes in the form of an email to Senior Contributing Editor Mary Jo Foley replying to a query about why the iOS app hasn’t received an update in over a year. Microsoft plans to delist its SwiftKey predictive keyboard from the iOS App Store on October 5th, according to a report by ZDNet. SwiftKey has been downloaded more than 500 million times on Android, but is also available for iPhone users who want to download the swipe keyboard themselves. ![]()
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