![]() Its head office is at the Microsoft offices in Paddington, London, and other offices are located in San Francisco, and Seoul. The company behind SwiftKey was founded in 2008 by Jon Reynolds, Ben Medlock and Chris Hill-Scott. SwiftKey uses machine learning to predict text inputs, as well as supporting swipe gestures and docking features. It was first released for Android in July 2010, followed by an iOS release in September 2014 following Apple's implementation of third-party keyboard support. ![]() Microsoft SwiftKey is a virtual keyboard app originally developed by TouchType for Android and iOS devices. ![]() And with no reason given, users can only speculate as to why Microsoft is consigning their long-running keyboard app to a slow death.IOS, Android, Windows 10 (versions 1809 to 1909) The announcement comes just a week before the app is scheduled to be delisted from the iOS 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. Microsoft will continue support for SwiftKey Android as well as the underlying technology that powers the Windows touch keyboard. “As of October 5, support for SwiftKey iOS will end and it will be delisted from the Apple App Store. 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. ![]()
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