Everything FloType does

• Tap typing. Tap anywhere in the keyboard area, approximately where you think the letters would be on a QWERTY layout. FloType scores your finger pattern against its dictionary of words, and offers the most likely word based on your taps. Accuracy does not depend on hitting keys precisely.
• Automatic spacing. Swiping right to commit a word inserts the space for you, so there is no space bar to find. A visible spacebar is available as an option in settings if you’d like.
• Suggestion cycling. Swipe up or down to move through the list of words from your taps, and when you find the right one, just continue typing the next word. FloType handles the rest.
• Word-level delete. Swipe left to remove the last word; swipe left and hold to keep deleting, or to clear the field entirely. Mid-word, a swipe left clears your taps so you can start the word over.
• Punctuation without switching modes. Swipe right again after committing a word to reach punctuation, then swipe down to access more punctuation. The list is customizable in settings.
• Emojis. From the punctuation list, swipe up to access emojis. FloType can also suggest emojis predictively based on what you have written.

Touch and hold anywhere in the keyboard to switch into manual entry. It behaves just like standard iOS touch typing: you hear the letter under your finger and lift to select it. Use it for names, unusual spellings, or anything the dictionary would not know by default. You can also allow FloType to access your contact names, so you can tap type them without having to individually add them to your dictionary one by one.

• Capitalization on the fly. While entering a word manually, swipe up to capitalize the last letter and swipe down to lowercase it.
• Add to your dictionary. Swipe up after entering a word to add it to your personal dictionary — or to remove it if you added it by mistake. Once it is in there, you can tap-type it normally.
• Hybrid words. You can mix both tap typing and manual typing while writing a word. Manually type ap, then tap out the rest of PLE, swipe right, and you get “apple”. Useful for words FloType keeps missing.

In manual entry, sliding to the very top of the keyboard reaches a floating row. It holds either digits or Quick Keys — common symbols and shortcuts such as an exclamation mark, @, .com and $ — so you can insert a symbol without switching the whole keyboard to another mode.

• Each column has its own alternates: swipe up or down right after touching it to cycle through them.
• A two-finger tap-and-hold swaps the row to the digits 1 through 0 plus hyphen. It stays swapped until your next swipe right, then snaps back — handy for phone numbers and addresses without leaving QWERTY.
• Which row appears by default is a setting, and the Quick Keys strip can be hidden entirely.

FloType is designed around VoiceOver. The gestures are deliberately the ones you already use elsewhere in iOS.

• A rotor inside the keyboard. Hold two fingers and twist to choose what the cursor moves by — characters, words, or lines — then two-finger swipe left or right to move it. The default rotor increment can be adjusted in settings.
• Read the whole field. Four-finger single tap reads everything in the text field aloud.
• Spell on demand. Four-finger tap and hold spells the last word letter by letter, regardless of your global spelling announcement settings.
• Copy and paste. Two-finger swipe up copies the whole field; two-finger swipe down pastes into it.
• Shift and caps lock. Three-finger tap toggles shift; three-finger tap and hold toggles caps lock.

FloType already knows most words by default. In addition, it dynamically adapts to you in the following ways:

• Where your fingers land. As you type, FloType builds a picture of your personal tap centers for each letter and adjusts its pattern matching algorithm accordingly. Early typing may feel less accurate than you expect, but will improve the more you type.
• Which words you actually use. Your own vocabulary and word pairings get weighted more heavily over time.
• Your personal dictionary. Words you add by hand become tap-typeable and appear as suggestions.

FloType also honors the text replacements (expandable shortcuts) you have set up in iOS Settings, and can optionally learn the first names in your contacts so it suggests them as you type.

FloType includes a Watch app, so the same tap-typing works on your wrist. It's bundled with the iPhone app, so there is nothing separate to install.

Unfortunately, watchOS does not currently allow apps to provide a system-wide keyboard extension, so on the Watch, FloType is a composing app. You open it, write in it, and hand the resulting text off to messages etc.

• The same gestures. The watch app works just like the phone app, all gestures are the same for typing, suggestions and deletions. Apple currently does not expose more than one finger to watch apps, so any FloType gesture that is two or more fingers will not work on the watch.
• Double Tap reads it back. On Apple Watch Series 9 and later, tap your finger and thumb together twice to hear everything you have written. There is no on-screen control for it — the gesture is the only trigger, so nothing gets in the way of the keyboard.
• Hand off to your iPhone. What you compose can be copied over to your phone's clipboard, ready to paste.

The text line and the watch's own settings take the place of those multi-finger gestures.