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Gesture based input is smooth and is great for one handed/lazy typing occasions. The keystokes are timely and have a satisfying click (one that we’ve all been accustomed to on iOS). Swype is using its experience and data analysis from different platforms for the past few years and the result is an app that doesn’t feel like it’s a version 1.0.

I’ve spent some time testing this app and even though it’s just a beginning I’m impressed. This is to make sure that a third party is not recording your password keystrokes. Swype won’t work when typing in passwords: As a security measure, Apple disables any third party keyboard when you’re entering passwords and usernames on website or app log in page. You’ve successfully changed your keyboard to Swype.

Long press the Globe icon and select Swype. Now go to any text editing app to bring up Apple’s keyboard. Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard, click on Keyboards option and select Add new Keyboard. To enable Swype, this is what you need to do. Once installed, open the app and it will guide you through the setup process. To do this, go to Settings -> General -> About and look for the version number. Download And Enable Swypeįirst, make sure you’re running iOS 8. To know how it performs and how to enable it in iOS 8, read on. Now though, thanks to iOS 8’s built-in custom keyboard support Swype is back in its official form. The keys are nicely placed, there are multiple themes and not to mention a great prediction engine.Īfter ruling over Android for a while (and later facing tough competition against SwiftKey), Swype did make it over to iOS but in the form of a jailbroken app that was never truly stable. It’s a solid keyboard replacement on its own merit.

It made swiping your finger over keys not only cool, but something that actually worked.īut Swype is not just great at gesture based input. It was the first keyboard to integrate gesture based input on a keyboard – a feature that Android itself would later copy. Since then Swype has rocked the custom keyboard market. Believe it or not, Swype first came to life with Samsung Omnia II on Windows Mobile.