What's new

Emoji, rebuilt

• Favorites: tap + in Favorites and pick as many emojis as you like, or hold any emoji and swipe down onto the star. Reorder and remove them in the app, where you can also add them from a full emoji picker.
• Skin tones: hold an emoji to pick its tone. Set a preferred tone in the app or with the hand button on the emoji board. Favorites keep the tone you saved them in.
• History shows the emojis you use most, or the most recent ones, your choice.
• Holding the emoji key shows your favorites, most recent or most used emojis in rows, with pages when there are more.
• Groups have titles and a slim divider between them, and you can put them in any order in the app.
• The top row of the emoji board is no longer blurred.
• The keyboard's own text is now in your phone's language.

Liquid Glass

• The stock theme now has see-through glass keys, like the iOS keyboard: the colours of the app behind show through. Prefer the old look? Pick Stock Solid.
• In the theme editor, Liquid Glass can cover the board, or the board and the keys. Tint the glass with any colour and strength, and give each key its own tint.

Smaller things

• Swiping right after typing finishes the typed word first, the way the space bar does.
• Fixed a crash when the keyboard closed while the cursor was moving.

Faster, more accurate typing

• Swipe typing is rebuilt: in our tests on real swipes, the first word is right 92% of the time in English, up from 83%, and better in every layout. Our own neural model checks each swipe, the keyboard learns how precisely you swipe, and the word shows while your finger is still moving.
• Predictions read the whole sentence, with models that run on your phone. In our English tests, suggestions now save about half the letters you type, up from 43%. Trained on everyday chat too, so messages are predicted better.
• Autocorrect picks the fix that fits the sentence and guesses wrong less often: "teh" becomes "the", "im" becomes "I'm", "nao" becomes "não".
• 50,000 words per language, from written text as well as speech.

Layouts and languages

• Russian and Greek: predictions, autocorrect, swipe typing and emoji search. Russian comes in compact ЙЦУКЕН or with ё and ъ on their own keys. Greek puts the accent back on space: "ειναι" becomes "είναι".
• One layout per language. Set QWERTY for English and your own layout for Estonian, Russian or Greek, and the keyboard switches with the language.
• Swipe left or right on the space bar to move between your layouts. The target's name shows while you hold, and lifting switches.
• Language codes on the space bar show which languages this layout types, with the active one lit.
• Smart wheel: swipe up from the space bar to pin a language, switch layouts or run a tool. You choose what sits on it.
• Hold the space bar to move the cursor: flick up or down to jump a sentence, or hold at either end to race through text.
• Several named custom layouts, one per language if you like.

Tools you can switch from the keyboard

• Autofix, the number row, suggestions, the toolbar and both rows above the keys can be switched on and off from the toolbar or the smart wheel.

Predictions

• Everyday words like "the" and "you" show up when they should.
• What you type is learned right away and blended in. Correcting the keyboard takes it back. Nothing is learned while autofix is off.
• Words run together are offered split: "whereareyou" offers "where are you".

Autocorrect

• Two swapped letters count as one mistake. A slip on the first letter, a left-out letter and typos inside contractions are fixed too.
• Missing apostrophes and accents are put back ("ca" becomes "ça"). Where both spellings are real words, the accented one is offered instead of being forced.
• A capital in the middle of a sentence is treated as a name and left alone.
• Autocorrect now works in Finnish, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovenian. Suggestions stay in the language you are writing.

Fix capitalization

• Words you always write a certain way are learned: "i" becomes "I", "iphone" becomes "iPhone". Teach your own spellings, per language. Correcting the keyboard once stops it.

Themes

• A gallery of ready-made themes, including ones built around a photo. Share a theme as a file, photo included.
• The suggestion bar and toolbar can be one unbroken bar or a box per word. The keyboard follows the appearance of the app you are typing in.
• New theme colours for the space bar codes and the smart wheel.

Smaller things

• The Keyboard tab offers to stop the paste popups, also on iOS 27.
• Copied a verification code? In a code field the bar offers Paste code, even from a whole message.
• Clipboard history saves every copy while the keyboard is up, images too, live. Filter by type, pick a list or a grid, keep 25 to 200 items, or switch it off.
• The 123 key shows your language's currency, with others under a long press. Custom layouts can change the 123 and #+= pages too.
• A swiped word stays open: tap an alternative to replace it. Suggestions match the case of the word you are typing. The red delete animation can be turned off. Pin a tool in place of a pager arrow. Long-press hints can show numbers only. New diacritics: ō, and a Māori preset.

Typing in your own language

• Missing apostrophes are put back. Type "im" and get "I'm", "dont" and get "don't". French, Italian, Catalan and Breton get theirs too: "cest" becomes "c'est", "lho" becomes "l'ho".
• Missing accents are put back where the word is unambiguous: "nao" becomes "não", "voce" becomes "você", "aqui" becomes "aquí", "ca" becomes "ça".
• Where both spellings are real words, nothing is rewritten and the accented one is offered instead. Portuguese "esta" stays "esta", with "está" one tap away.
• Suggestions now stay in the language you are writing. With two languages on, typing a Portuguese word no longer fills the bar with English guesses.

Autocorrect where there was none

• Autocorrect did not work at all in Finnish, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovenian. It does now.
• Nine word lists were rebuilt. Afrikaans gets its article 'n, Dutch gets 't and 'n, German gets 'ne, and Turkish gets back every word starting with a capital İ, including İstanbul.

Fix capitalization

• Words you always write a certain way are learned and applied: "i" becomes "I", "iphone" becomes "iPhone".
• Teach the keyboard your own spellings, and choose which languages each one applies in.
• Correcting the keyboard once is enough to stop it. Changing its mind the other way takes twice, so a single stray shift does not retrain it.

Themes

• A gallery of ready-made themes, including ones built around a photo.
• Share a theme as a file, with its photo included.
• The suggestion bar and toolbar can be one unbroken bar behind the words, or a box per word.
• The keyboard now follows the appearance of the app you are typing in, instead of the phone's.

Smaller things

• A popup near the top of the keyboard slides down instead of being cut off.
• Pin a tool in place of a pager arrow, or leave that end empty.
• Long-press hints can show numbers only.
• Two quick taps on the space bar reliably give a dot again.
• New diacritics: ō, and a Māori preset.

My info

• Store your email, phone, address and other details once, then fill them in with one tap. In fields an app labels, the matching value appears right in the suggestion bar.
• Typing part of a stored value completes it, in any field.
• Everything stays in the device Keychain: hardware-encrypted, never synced, never in a backup. Passwords are never involved, because secure fields never show this keyboard at all.

Keyboards that match the field

• Number, decimal and phone fields open on a large number pad with letters under the digits, and the corner key that other keyboards leave empty does something useful: switch back to letters, type a decimal comma, or dial a plus.
• Email fields get an at key, endings like .com under the dot key, and email providers suggested as soon as you type the at.
• Web address fields get dot, slash and .com keys instead of the space bar, with popular sites suggested as you type.
• A mistyped address like gmail.con is offered as a correction. Nothing you type in these fields is ever learned as a word.

Swipe to delete

• Hold backspace and swipe to delete whole words, one per step, and swipe back to bring them straight back.

Clipboard

• Every entry shows what kind of thing it is and how long ago you copied it.
• Expand the list to full height when you have a lot saved.

Settings

• Search moved to a toolbar button, and the tabs stay reachable while the preview is open.
• The number pad can be sized on its own, separately for portrait and landscape.
• The character bubble that pops up above a tapped key can now be turned off, in Appearance > Popups. Long-press accents and symbols still appear.

Quick setup

• New to keyboard2? A short setup walks you through turning the keyboard on, switching to it and picking your languages and layout, with a live preview reacting to every choice.
• The steps check themselves off as you complete them, and you can rerun the setup any time from Settings.

Swipe typing improved

• Swiping now picks the right word much more often, in all your enabled languages.

Better auto-corrections

• Accents are restored automatically: type "cafe" and get "café", in every supported language.
• Corrections now come from all your enabled languages, not just the one you type most.
• Typo matching got much faster, so suggestions keep up on long words.

Smarter learning

• The keyboard learns words you actually type and keeps them per language.
• Undoing a correction now also un-teaches it, so a wrong guess doesn't come back.

Settings, reorganized

• Four clear tabs: Keyboard, Typing, Appearance and General.
• A search box that jumps straight to any setting.

Your own photo behind the keys

• Pick a photo from your library and use it as a custom theme's background.
• Adjust it right in the app: how strongly it shows, which part of it you see, dim, blur, brightness, contrast and colour.
• A separate version is prepared for portrait and landscape, so the framing is right either way.
• The photo is copied into the app and never leaves your device.

Fonts you bring

• Import a .ttf or .otf file and use it on the keyboard, alongside the built-in families.
• Built-in and Installed now have their own tabs, with a short guide to adding a font to your iPhone.

Text replacements

• The shortcuts you set up in iOS Settings now expand while you type, with no setup and no Full Access needed.
• You can also add your own list in the app, which beats the automatic fixes when both could apply.
• Backspace right after a replacement puts your shortcut back.

Smaller adjustments

• The top panel can go shorter than before, and the toolbar's icons and captions scale down to keep fitting it.
• The preview stays on the toolbar page while you change settings instead of jumping back to suggestions.
• Reset confirmations appear straight away with the preview open.

Custom layout improvements

• Reorder rows by dragging: grab the handle next to a row and move it where you want.
• A row added on top now renders correctly, with the same key widths and centering as the rest of the keyboard.

A separate comma key

Add a dedicated comma key next to the spacebar, so typing a comma no longer needs the symbols keyboard.

Put the emoji key where you want it

Left of the comma, right of it, or merged into the comma or enter key - merged means a long press opens the emoji keyboard, and a small smiley on the key reminds you it is there.

Match any key with any other

Your own themes could match a key with the letter keys; now any key can match any other - style shift once and have backspace follow it. You can also copy one key's full style onto another as a one-off.

Style the comma key

The new comma key is its own part in the theme editor. It looks like the dot key until you say otherwise.

Edit the dot and comma keys in your layout

Tap them in the layout builder to change what they type and what a long press gives you.

Keep pasting

A new setting leaves the clipboard open after you paste, for pasting several items in a row.

One set of colours, your choice

Going from separate light and dark colours back to one set now asks which of the two to keep.

Fixes

Older saved themes could fail to load and disappear from the list - they no longer can. Language and accent changes now show up in the settings preview immediately. The keyboard also starts a little faster.