Typing with one hand on the gigantic iPhone 6s Plus just got a whole lot easier thanks to one of Apple’s biggest rivals.
Microsoft revealed today that its new one-handed keyboard app “Word Flow” for iOS is finally ready for primetime after a week in public beta, and it does a lot more than just one-handed typing.
https://youtu.be/RlcE1334_ew
The new keyboard app uses pretty much the same interface as the Microsoft Hub keyboard released earlier this month, only instead of focusing on productivity, Word Flow is all about making typing a snap.
Along with the one-handed keyboard mode for both right and left handed users, Word Flow also lets you swipe around the keyboard to type letters. The keyboard intelligently suggests the next word in your sentence and can correct your mistakes. It also comes with a fair bit of customization, allowing users to change the background image with ones provided in the app or with your own photo.
You can grab Word Flow on the App Store now, but to take full advantage of all the features you’ll have to give it access to your keyboard in the Settings app.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
11 responses to “Microsoft’s one-handed iOS keyboard is here”
Fantastic keyboard but no voice to text option unfortunately
I know they need to add voice A.S.A.P.
afaik there’s no voice to text option on any 3rd party keyboards which is also intentional on Apple’s part.
Not available in the UK, its US only!
Finally can watch porn and text at the same time
I miss the ability to 3D touch to fix an error and 3td party keyboards keep reverting back to stock keyboard. No talk to text either….. at this point I’m just waiting for Apple to release flow and I’ll be happy.
I think it’s a US only release so far.
You got that right. not on the UK Store or on the Finnish Store.
Just another one of those “Yay it’s out!” -type articles … followed by me going “Yeah.. it’s on the U.S. AppStore – not on the Finnish AppStore”
Why would they only release it to the US store? How silly!
How come no one else mentions the fact that you have to allow full access to your iPhone, “allowing the developer of this keyboard to transmit anything you type… which could include sensitive information such as your credit card number or street address”
Am I missing something here???