Swype predictive keyboard will no longer receive updates

If you are one of the regular users of the Swype predictive keyboard on your mobile, we have bad news: the app will stop updating on both Android and iOSThe app is still available on Google Play and the Apple App Store, but it will no longer be safe and reliable soon.

Goodbye to Swype, one of the most popular keyboards

For a long time, Swype was one of the most popular keyboards for its versatility and fast typing options. It quickly became famous for its typing capabilities by sliding your finger across the keys without taking your finger off the screen.

Another interesting feature was the speed of learning: in Swype we could easily teach new vocabulary to the app and almost immediately. Best of all, the keyboard remembered typing patterns and new vocabulary ever since.

These features are already available on other keyboards, such as Google's, and it seems that many users have abandoned Swype altogether .

This is also bad news for mobile owners who came pre-installed with Swype, like some mid-range handsets from three or four years ago . Perhaps the time has come for smartphones to bring only the Android keyboard to let users decide which one they want to install.

Swype disappears: did you see it coming?

Nuance, the developer of Swype, has just announced that will stop supporting its keyboard on Android and iOS, although there were clues that it would happen sooner or later.

In the last two years, the app received hardly any updates or improvements, and it fell behind other keyboards that added search for emoji and gifs, for example.

Now, the company has confirmed its decision through a brief official statement in a Reddit thread.

Alternatives: which keyboard to use on your mobile now?

There are still plenty of options available in the Android and iOS app stores, but you can also you can get fluent with the Apple keyboard and Android.

The bottom line is to learn the easy tricks to type faster and make writing easy. There are many small details that will help you type faster on the iPhone, and in the case of Android phones you can resort to the gesture typing of the Google keyboard or install one of the available alternatives.

The most recent option that we find on the market is the new Google Go keyboard, ideal for smartphones with less RAM memory.