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The keyboard doesn't come up except in the Typewise app. I have an iPhone 13 Pro, my iOS is up to date, and everything is enabled in keyboard settings, but I don't have the option to change to the Typewise keyboard even though it's there on my list of enabled keyboards in the settings app. It just doesn't show up when I press the globe key. Every so often it pops up randomly in a handful of native iOS apps, but does not seem to exist at all anywhere else, including on the home screen. I did get to experiment with it in the app, and even there it was buggy. I selected the Day & Night theme, and it started on the Day setting even though I had dark mode turned on. It never changed to Night even though I toggled dark mode on and off several times. I also got stuck in the tutorial on the slide where it shows you how to delete/redo a line of characters at once. Apparently just following the steps shown isn't enough to go to the next screen, you have to follow the steps shown with absolutely perfect timing, or nothing happens. Ridiculous.

To me it doesn’t feel fast at all. The hexagonal shape is just so weird and doesn’t feel natural at all and I’ve been using it for about a day. Yes, it says that it takes a week, but I consider myself a very quick learner and I know myself better than anyone, I usually pick up on things very quickly. But I just can’t get into this keyboard. To me personally, it’s not fun, it feels odd and the autocorrect is so bad. The devs commented on another review about a year ago saying they’re working on a major update, but from what other reviews have said, it seems like that “major update” hasn’t hit yet... which is a shame since a year is a long time. Overall, not my keyboard.

Tucking four symbols used at various frequencies each with different gestures is a weird anti-pattern for simplicity. Vibration as a premium feature is a bummer and to me the only thing premium is worth. The TW logo to the left of the smart bar is not good at all and the premium undo feature is not a suitable substitute. Turning off the smart bar locks you out of being able to undo autocorrect. Words like i'm don't get capitalized and contractions like cant don't get an automatic apostrophe but the word "don't" does. The word i never gets autocapitalized. The word autocorrect, a word used multiple times inside the configuring interface, gets autocorrected to "a incorrect". The word autocorrected gets converted to "a uncorrected". There is only so much more customizability this needs in order to be perfect, and the allure of bigger, harder to mistype keys is not worth the compromises. How do i close this keyboard even? Edit as a response to the developer: I just want the logo to be a little bit smaller. It’s huge. And tapping above the screen doesn’t work sometimes like even editing this review. I still have major problems with the symbols layout and the lack of customizabilty. I still feel as if even after only the changes you’ve mentioned the premium price of the pro features still can’t justify the main selling point - bigger and harder to mistake buttons.