
From 2012 to 2013, SwiftKey was the best-selling paid app on Google Play.In addition to the Official Tasker Wiki, User Guide, and Google Groups, this subReddit is a place for fellow Redditors to discuss, share, and submit Profiles, Tasks & Walkthroughs for Tasker, or to ask for help creating your own Profiles, Tasks, and questions in general related to Tasker (including plugins etc). At the time it acquired SwiftKey, Microsoft officials said the keyboard and SDK-powered services were used on more than 300 million Android and iOS devices. At the time, Microsoft was on a buying spree, snapping up companies with strong iOS and Android presence in order to give Microsoft at least some kind of foothold in the mobile phone space.

The Microsoft Phone Link team knows well that if Apple doesn't grant access to certain interfaces, there's no easy or good way to make a product which needs integration to work. I'm guessing the decision had as much to do with Apple's policies around safeguarding its walled garden as anything. I asked for the official reason why Microsoft had made this decision and was told officials had nothing more to say. 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. The Microsoft SwiftKey swipe keyboard is always learning and adapting to match your unique way of typing - including your slang. Use your personalized keyboard to type and send emoji, GIFs and stickers just the way you like. "As of October 5, support for SwiftKey iOS will end and it will be delisted from the Apple App Store. Microsoft SwiftKey is the intelligent keyboard that learns your writing style, so you can type faster.

On September 28, a spokesperson emailed the following statement, attributable to Chris Wolfe, Director Product Management at SwiftKey:

When a reader asked recently for an update on the situation, I asked Microsoft. A Reddit thread from a month ago highlighted the lack of updates to the app for more than a year. Like Swiftkey, a row of suggested words shows up above the keyboard. The user interface is simple and easy to understand.

Questions about what's going on with Microsoft's support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks. The app has a variety of themes, some of which are animated and add some style to the keyboard.
