Microsoft is Bringing Its Word Flow Keyboard to iOS

Microsoft‘s push to app parity for mobile software continues as the company is asking iOS developers to submit apps to its Project Islandwood iOS porting tool.

After so many attempts to launch Cortana for Android, Microsoft has now made a decision to take its efforts a step ahead to make a place in the devices running on other operating systems. And soon, iOS users are going to get a new goodie to play with.

Microsoft is porting yet another app over to iOS, this latest one called Word Flow, a smartphone keyboard app that’s similar to Swype. Even in its raw state, the keyboard by Microsoft is much easier to use as compared to the iOS stock keyboard.

There’s no word on when the Word Flow for iOS testing will begin or when Microsoft is aiming to launch it to the public.

The Word Flow keyboard is one of the defining features of Windows on the phone: It was introduced in Windows Phone 8.1, and it works pretty well. For some Microsoft observers, Project Islandwood’s name shines as a sliver of light in an otherwise dismally dark world for the Windows 10 Mobile platform and Windows 10 on PCs to a lesser degree. We are now working on extending this keyboard to other platforms, starting with iOS. In an email to some Windows Insider testers, obtained by The Verge, Microsoft is looking for iPhone users to trial the Word Flow keyboard.

I am just a bit apprehensive about seeing Word Flow on iOS because I have yet to find a 3rd party keyboard that performs reliably all the time and I always go back to the slower default iOS keyboard.