I'm guessing the decision had as much to do with Apple's policies around safeguarding its walled garden as anything. I asked for the official reason why Microsoft had made this decision and was told officials had nothing more to say. For those customers who have SwiftKey installed on iOS, it will continue to work until it is manually uninstalled or a user gets a new device. Microsoft will continue support for SwiftKey Android as well as the underlying technology that powers the Windows touch keyboard. 'As of October 5, support for SwiftKey iOS will end and it will be delisted from the Apple App Store. On September 28, a spokesperson emailed the following statement, attributable to Chris Wolfe, Director Product Management at SwiftKey:

When a reader asked recently for an update on the situation, I asked Microsoft.

A Reddit thread from a month ago highlighted the lack of updates to the app for more than a year. Questions about what's going on with Microsoft's support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks.

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