Microsoft’s discontinuing SwiftKey on iOS subsequent week

Microsoft confirmed that it’s eradicating SwiftKey from the Apple App Store and ending assist for the iOS model of the keyboard app on October fifth. It will nonetheless be accessible in case you’ve already downloaded SwiftKey in your iPhone, as long as you don’t uninstall it your self.

“Microsoft will continue support for SwiftKey Android as well as the underlying technology that powers the Windows touch keyboard,” Chris Wolfe, the director of product administration at SwiftKey, mentioned in a press release to The Verge. “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.”

The transfer to discontinue SwiftKey on iOS comes after months of user complaints that seemingly went unresolved. On high of that, users noticed that Microsoft hasn’t up to date the SwiftKey app on iOS in over a 12 months, prompting suspicion over whether or not the app had been quietly discontinued.