According to new reports, however, it turns out that the one-handed mode is now a part of the Word Flow keyboard, a Swiftkey-like app that Microsoft is currently in beta testing on the iPhone and which is expected to also land on Android at some point in the future.
Advertisement
However as you can see in the photo above, Word Flow for iOS has a one-handed mode in which the keys are fanned out, which we can imagine will be more comfortable to use especially since it is angled as well.
The rest of the feature lineup is identical with what you can find on Windows 10 Mobile at the moment, so you also get multi-language support, suggestions, and swipe support, which makes typing even faster.
Verge had recently published pictures of the Keyboard in flesh and this gives us a good idea of how the keyboard would actually look and if the layout can manage to score on the utilitarian front.
To enable one-handed typing, the keyboard has an arc-like design with letters radiating out from the iPhone’s display to be reached with just a thumb.
Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard for iOS will feature a one-handed mode, that is different from the Windows Phone version.
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Microsoft could be bringing its Word Flow keyboard onto iOS.
The solution Microsoft has implemented in Windows 10 Mobile is to allow the keyboard to be scrunched down and pushed closer to one side of the screen or the other.
Beyond that, the Verge says that the keyboard is otherwise very similar to the Windows incarnation.
Advertisement
I for one am looking forward to using Word Flow for iOS.
