en you tap the tiny hamburger button to the left of the text row, you’ll enter Swiftkey’s refreshed hub, where you can still adjust the keyboard’s appearance, size layout. But along with the tweaked interface there are a few new tricks inside as well. On the main settings screen you’ll see an Incognito button, which will temporarily stop Swiftkey from collecting analyzing the things you type. There’s also a new clipboard menu that lets you manage edit stored bits of text. It’s sort of like a stripped-down version of Text Exper, where you can pin phrases that you’ll be typing often during a writing session or set shortcuts for commonly used snippets lengthy phrases. Elsewhere, Swiftkey has made the hub easier to navigate nicer to look at. There’s support for five new languages—Tibetan, Swiss German, Yakut, w German Kurdish— a hy new feature for Hindi Gujarati typists as well. Dubbed Transliteration, the feature helps multilingual writers who otherwise need to constantly switch between languages. en you type the phonetic pronunciation of the Hindi or Gujarati word, the predictive text bar will show an option for how it should be written with its native characters. The impact on you at home: Swiftkey is one of the most popular keyboards in the ay Store, the features it has implemented with this update will benefit casual power users alike, especially those with an eye on privacy. The idea of a keyboard keeping such a close watch on everything you type has always been anathema to some users, Microsoft clearly understs their concerns, positioning Swiftkey as an alternative to ’s full-court data press.
