Full-size keys on the iPhone Duo. Folded, on the cover display, the keys were taking about half of the space the keyboard had claimed, leaving an empty band under the bottom row. They fill it now.

Small improvements. If Reduce Motion is turned on in your iPhone's settings, the keyboard preview in Settings now opens and closes without animation.

More behind every key. Hold a key to see the characters behind it, as on Apple's keyboard. Holding - now gives the dashes – — and the bullet •. The quote keys give “ ” „ « », and the currency key gives the other currencies. New letters too: پ چ ڤ گ ژ and Arabic-Indic digits in Arabic, ג׳ צ׳ ח׳ in Hebrew, and more accents in every Latin language, such as é è à ç ñ in German. Reported by a customer who writes in Arabic. Thank you.

Brackets the right way round. In Arabic and Hebrew, brackets now type exactly as the keys show them, as on Apple's keyboard: ( ) [ ] and { }. All the symbols. The numbers keys now have a #+= key. It opens a second page of symbols: [ ] { } # % ^ * + = _ \ | ~ • and more currencies. Press 123 to go back. Both were reported by a customer who types in Arabic. Thank you.

No more missing letters. When you typed quickly, a letter pressed before the previous finger had lifted could be lost. So could a careful press that ended between two keys, or one that rested a moment on a key with accents. Every one of them is typed now. The enlarged key is always above your finger. On the top row it used to appear beside the key. It is now always directly above it, and you can turn it off in Settings if you would rather not see it. Bigger word suggestions. Suggestions now fill the strip above the keys instead of sharing it with a copy of your text. Turn suggestions off to see a large copy of what you type there instead. The missing letters were reported by a customer who types in Arabic. Thank you.

Emoji that were there all along. The emoji panel sometimes drew empty keys. Tapping one still typed the right emoji, because the emoji was always there - only the picture was missing. It is drawn a simpler way now, and it stays drawn. A shorter bottom row on the Classic layout. The row with 123, space and return was half again as tall as the letter rows above it, for no reason Apple's own keyboard shares. It is now the same height as a letter row, and the keyboard is shorter by the difference - with every letter exactly the size it was. Split rows are unchanged. Both were reported by a customer who uses BigKeys in Arabic every day.

The currency key shows your own money. The numeric keyboard had a dollar sign on it in every language, wherever you were. It now shows the currency of your region, as the iPhone keyboard does - euro, shekel, rouble, riyal - and the key types it.

Dictation now speaks your language. Pressing the microphone typed English whatever language BigKeys was set to, unless you had just pressed the language key. BigKeys now tells iPhone which language it is every time the keyboard appears, so dictation follows the keyboard. A smaller strip above the keys. The band above the keys was taking a quarter of the keyboard, and most of it was empty. It is now about half as tall, in every language and layout, and the space goes back to your screen. Word suggestions still work exactly as before, and no key got smaller - on the Classic layout the keys are slightly larger. Both were reported by a customer who uses BigKeys in Arabic every day.

• The numbers keyboard showed 6 7 8 9 0 above 1 2 3 4 5 in Arabic and Hebrew. Digits read left to right in every language, and now they do again, as on the iPhone keyboard. Thank you to the customer who spotted it the day the last update arrived.

• Arabic and Hebrew keys are now in the right order. Each row of the iPhone keyboard is split across two rows, and the half you read first is now on top, as it is on the iPhone. Thank you to the customer who drew the correct layout by hand and sent it in.

• New: big emoji. Tap the smiley key next to 123 for the iPhone's own emoji, as big as the keys. Pick a category, use the up and down buttons to see more, and tap ABC to go back to letters. The ones you sent last come first. • Thank you for using BigKeys. If it makes typing easier for you, a rating on the App Store helps other people who need bigger keys find it.

• BigKeys now speaks your language: the app is available in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. • Arabic and Hebrew letters are now in the same order as on the iPhone keyboard. • New: a thin strip above the keys. The keyboard takes less of the screen, and the keys stay just as big. Turn it on in Settings, under Layout.

A new Medium key size. For anyone who finds Large a little too big, Medium sits between Apple's keyboard and Large. Choose it in the BigKeys app under Settings → Key size.

This version changes the App Store listing, not the keyboard. The description now says what BigKeys actually does: ten languages including Hebrew and Arabic with right-to-left layout, the high-contrast colour themes, speaking keys and words alongside VoiceOver, and the fact that it never asks for Full Access and so cannot reach the network at all. The app itself is unchanged from 1.0.2.

You can see what you are typing. The strip above the keys used to swap your own words for suggestions as soon as you were two letters in. Now it shows both, with your text on the larger line — and you can turn suggestions off entirely to give it the whole strip. A key to put the keyboard away. BigKeys is large by design, which can cover a search field or the name you are typing a message to. The new key at the bottom right hides the keyboard so you can see what is underneath, without switching to another keyboard. Caps Lock. Press shift twice for capitals that stay on. Press it again to release. Capital letters mid-sentence now work. Pressing shift in the middle of a sentence did nothing at all. It does now. The keyboard stays in your language. Putting the keyboard away and bringing it back no longer sends you back to the first language in your list. Clearer speech settings, spelled out rather than named.

LIGHTER ON MEMORY The voice engine is now built only when you switch speech on. A keyboard that never speaks no longer carries it, which leaves more room inside the limit iOS gives a keyboard. New pictures on the App Store as well, showing the keys at their largest.