

We may not know why Microsoft pulled SwiftKey from the App Store earlier in 2022, delisting it from the store on October 5, 2022. Microsoft’s SwiftKey iPhone keyboard has been reinstated What to do? Take SwiftKey for a spin, see if you like it.Why care? SwiftKey was probably the best third-party keyboard for iPhone and iPad so this is great news for people who prefer SwiftKey over Apple’s own QuickType predictive keyboard.But now, the Windows maker has seemingly reversed course and reinstated SwiftKey on the store though no updates have arrived yet. What’s happening? Microsoft pulled SwiftKey from Apple’s App Store in September 2022 without giving any explanation for the discontinuation.And with no reason given, users can only speculate as to why Microsoft is consigning their long-running keyboard app to a slow death.Microsoft has brought back SwiftKey, its predictive keyboard for iPhone and iPad with gestural typing, emoji prediction, themes and more. 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.
