FlickType half-screen and yearly subscription

What is the minimalist mode you are mentioning? Thanks. Also, went to the Upgrade screen the other day after upgrading to the latest release. I saw a "restore" option but no option for a yearly subscription. Thanks.

I noticed the same thing as post 1.

You have the option to restore purchases, but no other option.

The option is where you manage your subscriptions in the app store, but that's assuming you already signed up.

Hi. Thanks for the response. I am writing to confirm that the upgrade option now works as expected. I "think" I just subscribed for a year, although I will have to check it once my internet connection becomes more stable on my phone.

I do like the name "standard" as opposed to "minimalist" keyboard option. Maybe even "standard iOS-sized" would be the best description. Keep up the great work.

I prefer the full keyboard, but in some places the half keyboard behaves better. Might a future version have a gesture to switch between the keyboards?

Thanks for the great update, I definitely agree that Standard would be more descriptive and less confusing as the third option for keyboard size. Can I make a request for a feature to be introduced fairly soon? I know you are aware the dictionary is less than optimal at the moment and you have said integrating a better dictionary would be difficult, Firstly do you have a good idea of how long we may be waiting for this and in the meantime, would you be able to assign a gesture to enter new words into the dictionary. This would be a short term kind of work around until you get round to the better dictionary.

Hello, I would like to purchase a subscription but would very much like to remain on the beta cycle. is this possible?if so how does one obtain a subscription while also running the beta. also I haven't noticed a beta update in a while. wondering if it is due to getting a new phone or if an update hasn't been provided in a while. thanks keep up the great work!

Hi, let's see if I can try to answer some of those questions, although since the update I don't think it's needed.

I can see the options have re-appeared in the upgrade tab.

I currently don't have a subscription, simply because I found myself using BSI for texting, I'd probably use FlickType for typing lengthy messages, such as this one if I wasn't typing this from my PC.

I'm running the app store release, and like I said above, the buttons have re-appeared in the upgrade tab.

I'm assuming that if I were to go through the upgrade tab, depending on which plan I choose it will charge me accordingly.

I already used up my trial so I would probably be charged straight away, which is fine.

I'm surprised the price ends up being the same, no matter what plan you go with.

Most apps I've seen give you more of a discount, depending on what plan you choose to go with.

Obviously, the higher the plan, the better the discount, I see this a lot with vpns.

It's more of an incentive to get the higher plan, even if it's only something like 2 bucks cheaper, just a thought.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware words were automatically added to the dictionary. Thats great news, thanks. I did have one other suggestion if you’d like to hear it and find out how others feel about whether it would be helpful. After typing my message, I have to feel around the screen to find the send button, sometimes I land straight on it and sometimes not, often I will end up adding a few letters to the end of my message which is inconvenient to remove them. I realise we don’t want to get swamped with gestures but I would like to suggest a gesture to send the message, I think this would be incredibly helpful and I think would remove my final friction point to using flicktype as my main keyboard rather than something to play with, To explain what I do at the moment is dictate my message then correct with regular iOS keyboard but I am finding this just as easy with flicktype as with iOS, maybe easier due to 2 and 3 finger swipes.

Anyway, not sure if others agree this would be super helpful but fingers crossed..

Thanks again.

Hey Ashley, at present I will usually dictate the message then feel above the iOS keyboard for the send button. I correct any (usually at least some) errors with the standard typing behaviour so touching the keyboard by accident doesn’t activate any key press. With Flicktype when I look for the button, if I touch the keyboard I will of course enter a character which I then have to delete before looking for the button again. I don’t think there is any way around this that you could implement however. I wasn’t aware iOS didn’t offer a send command to 3rd party keyboards. I wonder if there is a work around here though. If I use a Bluetooth keyboard and I hit enter the message is sent. I wonder if there is a way to send a pseudo Enter key press to mimic the action of a proper send button? Oh and I always use flicktype in minimal/standard mode now you have made it available. I usually like my iOS device to function as normally as possible and having to minimise the keyboard before sending the message is slower and also means I can’t access the text of previous messages while the keyboard is in full screen mode.

If you are in minimalist mode, type your message then place your finger towards the top half of the screen. Keep swiping right until you reach the send button. It's not perfect but it will work.

Thanks for the suggestion, That is kind of what I end up doing and it works but i’m sure you have been in the situation where you are texting sighted people and the messages are coming thick and fast you don’t get the chance to work that way while keeping up with the conversation which is why I was hoping a send gesture would help massively speed things up. Another way this issue could be addressed is for apple to force voiceover to ignore everything until the arriving message has been read, obviously this is not going to happen quickly or maybe at all but it would sure help to keep pace with people who can see. :)

Love the size of the minimal standard type keyboard, but when using it in other apps, words are no longer spelled after a pause. Is this intended behavior, or a bug of some kind?

Hi. I don't have this app yet on my iPhone, but it sounds like something that could be helpful for me. I have a bit of an issue with hand coordination, and these constant log-in time-outs really drive me batty. I know I'm probably not the only one with this problem. They even come up sometimes with Touch ID enabled. So I've been avoiding downloading any 3rd-party apps mainly for that reason. I do have LookTel's VO Tutorial, and really like it. My mom was kind enough to help me download that one. Having said all that, is there an easy way to integrate your app as a keyboarding option? I know I read elsewhere on here that Apple was going to integrate your app into the system itself for a nominal fee. Tia for any help you can provide, and I'm looking forward to trying out the app soon.