Autocorrect leaves names alone. The names in your contacts are never "fixed" any more — iOS shares them with the keyboard, on your phone, with no Contacts permission and no Full Access, and they are never sent anywhere. Your Text Replacements work here. The shortcuts you set up for Apple's keyboard, "omw" and the rest, now expand in this one too. The bar suggests the next word while you're between words. It learns which words you tend to put together — pairs of words, on your phone only, never whole messages, never from password fields or private messages — and you can switch the learning off or erase it in Settings. Autocorrect has a Gentle setting: it fixes a single slip on its own and leaves anything bolder in the bar for you to tap. Comma and full stop sit either side of the space bar. Hold the full stop for ? ! and more. You can turn them off in Settings. Haptics come in Soft, Normal and Firm. Fixes: - Undoing an autocorrection after tapping somewhere else in your text could change the wrong words. It can't any more. - Fix all could garble a message with several mistakes in it. It now fixes each one in place and puts your cursor back where it was. - Holding backspace deleted one more character than it showed. - Backspace straight after a full stop that triggered a correction now just deletes the full stop. - A suggestion is only shown in bold when the space bar will really apply it.

Spelling and grammar now work with no connection and no permission at all. Their and they're, its and it's, your and you're, "should of", "was wrote", "loose" for "lose" — the mistakes a spellchecker cannot see, because every word in them is spelled correctly. Thirty-five rules, all on your phone. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing needs Full Access, and it is free. You can give spelling and grammar a row of their own now, above the suggestion bar, so your corrections stay visible while you write instead of taking turns with everything else — and you can fix a second mistake without a panel opening over the keys. Fix all, in the bar. One tap, whole message. Twenty-seven text styles, up from eleven: serif, bold script, bold gothic, wide, squared, filled, bracketed, mirrored, alternating caps, and one that turns your message upside down. They are easier to find, too — they were called Styles, which is also what this app calls the shape of the keys. Six key sounds. Typewriter, with the carriage-return bell on the return key. Mechanical, thock, bubble, retro and water. None of them are recordings; they are generated on your phone, which is why no two keystrokes sound quite the same and why they add nothing to the download. Save your email, phone number or address once, and a field that asks for one offers it. Never in a password field — those belong to iOS. For hands that don't always do as they're told: a key can be set to need holding before it types, or to ignore a second press that wasn't meant. Reduce Motion is now respected, with a switch to keep the motion anyway. You can see what your typing looks like — how many keys, which ones, how fast, drawn over whichever layout you use. Counts only, never a word you typed, nothing from a password field, and it stays on your device. Translation stopped interrupting. It used to ask again on the next keystroke however many times you waved it away, and it sat above your spelling and grammar while it did. It waits on a button now. And a split keyboard, under Reach in Settings: two halves pinned to opposite edges, for a screen where a full-width row is a reach rather than a keyboard. Both thumbs get a space bar. Off unless you choose it — the keyboard does not rearrange itself the first time you turn the phone.

Four keyboard layouts: QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak and ABC. The iPhone has never offered Dvorak or Colemak on screen, so if you type one of them on a computer, this is the first time your phone can match. Autocorrect follows whichever you choose. Six key sounds. Typewriter, with the carriage-return bell on the return key. Mechanical, thock, bubble, retro and water. None of them are recordings — they are generated on your phone, which is why they add nothing to the download and why no two keystrokes sound quite the same. The drawn backdrops move now. Rain, fire, fireflies, meteors and twelve more, running while the keyboard is on screen and stopping the moment it isn't. And twenty-five new key shapes, including some that do more than sit there. Save your email, phone number or address once, and a field that asks for one offers it. One tap fills it in. Never in a password field — those belong to iOS, and it hands them to whichever password app you use. For hands that don't always do as they're told: a key can be set to need holding before it types, so brushing past one does nothing, or to ignore a second press that wasn't meant. Both off unless you turn them on. Reduce Motion now stops the backdrop drifting and the ripples spreading, and there is a switch to keep them anyway. You can see what your typing looks like — how many keys, which ones, how fast, drawn as a heatmap over whichever layout you use. Counts only, never a word you typed, nothing at all from a password field, and it stays on your device. Sixteen more text styles, twenty-seven in all: serif and bold serif, bold script, bold gothic, wide, squared, filled, bracketed, mirrored, alternating caps, and one that turns your message upside down. The translate list says what the languages are. It used to name each one only in itself — Español, 简体中文, العربية — which is no help at all if you don't already read it, and if you did you wouldn't need translating. Every language now gives its English name too. The send check got quieter. It had been speaking up on ordinary messages — birthday texts in capitals, "you always know what to say", a door code sent to a friend — and now needs two signals before it says anything at all. Keys ripple where your thumb lands. The keyboard can pick a new theme for itself each day. And the letters can shuffle themselves, or disappear one by one, if you want the chaos.