Tech website The Verge is reporting that the new keyboard will feature a one-handed mode.
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Anyone with an iPhone 6 Plus or 6s Plus knows the pain of straining their thumb across the screen to reach a Q, W or A on the left-hand side of the keyboard while trying to type one-handed. The Windows 10 keyboard can also be shifted to the side to make it compact instead of using the usual fanned out layout already installed on iOS devices.
A few days back, Microsoft began sending out invites to Insiders to try out Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard on iOS that will eventually be coming to Android as well. Check out the screenshot below…
A Nokia employee demonstrates how to use the Word Flow Keyboard featuring Shape writing at More Lumia, a media event in San Francisco, California on Wednesday, April 02, 2014.
Microsoft is testing a one-handed software keyboard for the iPhone that fans out from one corner – a move that may strike a bit of deja vu for those who saw the company’s last angled one-handed keyboard in 2012. The additional feature will not go down well with those now using Windows 10 Mobile.
The iOS Word Flow keyboard supports gesture-based typing, similar to third-party alternatives like Swype, where the user drags their finger across the keys.
Microsoft is reported to be working on the iOS version of its popular Word Flow keyboard that would include a unique arrangement of the keys facilitating one-handed typing operations. The publication indicates that the testing phase is nearly complete and Word Flow will soon be available to public testers on iOS.
This incredibly original one-handed layout fans-out the QWERTY keys around one corner of the screen.
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Add this to Microsoft’s growing list of excellent iOS apps.
