Make the keyboard look like yours, and see what every setting does. YOUR OWN LOOK • Start from one of eight finished looks — Glass, Neon, Terminal, Typewriter, Candy, Chalkboard, Gothic, Bubbles — or tap Surprise me • See-through keys, with one slider • Your photo behind the keys, inside each key, or under frosted-glass keys — now on themes that follow light and dark too • 23 fonts and 17 letter styles for the keys: ⓑⓤⓑⓑⓛⓔⓢ and more TYPE IN STYLE New, and off unless you turn it on: type in any of those letter styles, in any app. Corrections and suggestions pause while it is on. Switch it from the toolbar's Styled letters button or the Themes tab. SETTINGS THAT EXPLAIN THEMSELVES • An ⓘ next to nearly every setting says what it does, what it changes and what it depends on • Switches that cancel each other out now say which one wins • Turn off the mascot, the tool row or the paste button, or choose how long the paste button stays • A new page explains when iOS shows Apple's keyboard instead, and how to get back FIXES • The fix button no longer closes the keyboard • Changes made in the app reach the keyboard straight away • A capital after a sentence that ends inside quotes or brackets, and no second full stop after one • Emoji suggestions in every language you have switched on • Corrections follow where your fingers actually land on the keys • French: a word from the bar followed by ? or ! keeps its space • The Themes screen scrolls and edits smoothly The keyboard still contains no networking code.

Corrections that leave your writing alone, accents that come back with the next word, and suggestions that follow the conversation. FEWER WRONG CORRECTIONS A new corrector, trained on the keyboard's own decisions, now chooses the word when you press space. In every language it changes a correctly typed word less often, and turns a typo into a different wrong word less often — in most, less than half as often as before. When it is not sure, it leaves the word as you typed it. All of it runs on your phone. THE NEXT WORD CAN FIX THE LAST Once you type the next word, the keyboard looks at the one before again, and fixes a typo it had left alone when the new word makes the meaning clear. The undo chip appears, as with any correction. ACCENTS FROM THE SENTENCE A skipped accent is now put back once the next word shows which spelling you meant, on words of a single letter too. In every language with enough accented words to measure, more of them come back than before. Where a question opens with a mark of its own, the question word after it gets its accent. SUGGESTIONS THAT FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION Words and phrases you used earlier in the same session come up again when they fit. The bar no longer leaves a slot empty when there is a word to offer, and a word you stretch for emphasis is offered as you typed it rather than corrected. THE FIX BUTTON READS THE WHOLE SENTENCE The one-tap repair now weighs every word against the whole sentence before it changes anything. HOLD FOR THE CORNER CHARACTER New, and off unless you turn it on: hold a key that shows a small character in its corner and let go to type that character. Hold on a moment longer for the accents, as before. Settings, Keys & layout. LANGUAGES Language updates now download by themselves as soon as they are found, and the home screen says when one has arrived. Typing a Cyrillic language in Latin letters can now be its own entry in the language switcher. And when you change language mid-sentence, the words you already typed are read again in the new one. LIGHTER Switching languages often no longer keeps an extra copy of the prediction model in memory, and the swipe trail and the emoji in the bar weigh less. The keyboard still contains no networking code.

A quicker way between your languages, a purchase that follows your Apple Account, a backup of everything the keyboard has learned, and keys with depth. SWITCH LANGUAGE WITH A SLIDE Slide a finger along the space bar to change language: right for the next, left for the previous. The space bar now shows the language you are typing in. Hold the space bar and the keyboard is still a trackpad. Prefer the slide to move the cursor, as before? Settings, Gestures & feel. And when you start a new sentence in your other language, the keyboard follows you sooner. YOUR PURCHASE, WHEREVER YOU INSTALL IT Delete Pilcrow and install it again, or set it up on another iPhone or iPad signed in to the same Apple Account, and it opens already unlocked, without tapping Restore. On a device where the App Store cannot tell us which account bought it, Restore still works as before. There is still no account to make: the app uses an identifier Apple gives it for your copy of Pilcrow, which carries no name or email, and only to keep your purchase with you. BACK UP WHAT IT HAS LEARNED Your words, spellings, phrases and corrections can now be saved as a file, under Dictionary, and restored on a new phone or after you have cleared them. A restore adds to what is already there and never replaces it. Backing up needs Full Access, because without it the app cannot read what the keyboard has learned; restoring does not. KEYS WITH DEPTH Two new themes, Keycap and Ember, stand each key on an edge of its own colour, and every key now presses down under your finger. Ten older themes have left the picker; if you used one, the keyboard moves to Automatic or Pilcrow. The keys also follow the keyboard's own light or dark look, so they no longer turn light on a dark keyboard in some apps. PREDICTIONS THAT KNOW YOUR HABITS A word you keep writing after another now comes first in the predictions. In eleven languages, strong swear words are no longer suggested until you have typed them yourself. BETTER ACCENTS AND CORRECTIONS In many languages a skipped accent is now put back using the word before it and the rest of the sentence, and corrections weigh your languages against each other more fairly when you write in two. FORTY LANGUAGES Two more written right to left, one of them with a key of its own for joining the parts of a word, as its iPhone keyboard has. LIGHTER ON EMOJI The emoji panel now keeps in memory only what is on screen, so browsing every category no longer weighs the keyboard down. The emoji are a little smaller too. The unlock screen now shows every plan at once. The keyboard still contains no networking code.

Thirty-eight languages, and a keyboard that opens faster and stays lighter. MORE LANGUAGES, WITHOUT AN UPDATE Pilcrow now types in thirty-eight languages, including its first written right to left, where the suggestion bar, the cursor keys and backspace turn round with the text. FASTER TO OPEN, LIGHTER TO KEEP The keyboard no longer reloads its prediction model every time it appears, so the first keys in a new field get suggestions too. It no longer takes more memory each time it opens, which makes iOS less likely to close it. The app starts faster with a large personal dictionary. BETTER WHILE IT LEARNS YOU Next-word suggestions no longer dip in the first days, while it is still learning your words. Tapping a suggestion to finish a word no longer teaches it a correction, which had it rewriting short everyday words. YOUR OWN SYMBOL KEYS Put the characters you use most on the number and symbol keys, in Settings under Keys & layout. Each one replaces a key; nothing is added or removed. ALSO • Number and symbol keys use the full width where the letter rows are longer • Cleaner word lists: misread and foreign words are no longer suggested • Long-press offers accented letters several languages were missing • Accents are put back on words that were missing two of them • Languages are listed alphabetically in Settings • Themes can set the colour of a pressed special key The keyboard still contains no networking code.

Performance improvements

The keyboard now learns where your finger actually lands. IT MOVES TO MEET YOUR THUMB Most people land a little off centre, in the same direction every time. Pilcrow now measures that from your own clean words and moves where each key listens. Nothing moves on screen. For a steady habit of about two millimetres it gets three more characters in a hundred right. If you already land on centre it changes nothing. It learns only from words that came out clean, so it under-corrects on purpose, and "Forget everything" now clears it along with the rest. GLIDE THROUGH THE SPACEBAR One gesture can write more than one word. Keep going through the spacebar and lift when the phrase is done. BACKSPACE, BOTH WAYS Swipe the backspace key to take back whole words, and swipe the other way to have them returned. After a correction, backspace is a plain backspace again, which is what many of you asked for. MAKE THE TOP ROW YOURS The tool row is now a setting. Pick up to six tools from a longer list in Settings, under Toolbar. A paste chip is offered for a minute after you copy something new, and not after that. ALSO • Themes, a trackpad row, flick up for the second character, and typing stats • Typing and swiping stay fast with a large personal dictionary • Held keys no longer start late • A glide can no longer write a word the suggestion bar did not show Nothing here sends anything anywhere. The keyboard still contains no networking code.