Swype add-on keyboard discontinued, pulled from iOS App Store
One of the first third-party keyboards for iOS, Swype, has reached its end of life, and will see no more updates or development effort by its parent company.
Nuance's Swype keyboard, has been discontinued, according to a company representative. On Feb. 1, Nuance posted the news, saying that it will allow the company to focus its attentions elsewhere.
The Android version of the keyboard has been axed as well.
Nuance's Swype keyboard, has been discontinued, according to a company representative. On Feb. 1, Nuance posted the news, saying that it will allow the company to focus its attentions elsewhere.
Nuance also develops the Dragon voice-recognition software for an assortment of markets, including the medical industry for transcription, and inclusion in vehicles.Nuance will no longer be offering the Swype keyboard on iOS App Store. We're sorry to leave the direct-to-consumer keyboard business, but this change is necessary to allow us to concentrate on developing our AI solutions for sale directly to businesses.
We hope you enjoyed using Swype, we sure enjoyed working with the Swype community.
The Android version of the keyboard has been axed as well.
Comments
Can’t wait for the sadness and fawning praise for a now defunct product that was once the “reason” people weren’t going to buy iPhones. Apple, always doomed.
Just because Nuance decided that this was not a business for them does not mean all non Apple keyboards have failed.
No. They are not all buggy, less responsive, or don't add much. SwiftKey is great and was always better, for me, than Swype anyway and much preferred by me to the inbuilt Apple keyboard.
I have been using this keyboard since it was first intro on Motorola android phones. I love this keyboard, it allows me to type out responses on my phone so fast even faster than people who thumb type and even if i kind of misspell a word it does a really good at guessing the right word. Yes it had some issues, but most of the issues seem to be on the iOS side then on Swype side, the reason I know this, Swype had few updates and when iOS updates the problems usually went away.
I would not really care about this since i have Swype stored on my computer but with iOS 11 you can no longer load aps from your computer it has to down load with the store when you update your phone, so at some point I will not be able to get this on my phone.
The other issue is Apple not trusting 3rd party Keyboards with your password Data, so every time you have to enter your password, you get the Keyboard jolt as it switches from 3rd party to Apple's every time you need to enter a password.
There are a ton of keyboards out there to pick from. Right now I'm using Grammarly.
And THAT is why, ladies and gentlemen, you should NOT be using third-party keyboards.
Q: Do you do this so 1P is always available in mobile Safari?
Apple did allow third party keyboards, so I am not sure where did you get that stuff from, that they do not let 3rd party apps "enter" that info, especially considering the fact that a keyboard is there to ENTER information.