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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 13d

KeyboardKit 10 is out! 🚀 This blog post goes through the many new features and changes in this huge release, and some important information for current users.
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KeyboardKit 10 is out!

KeyboardKit 10 is out! This is a huge release with many new features and changes. Let’s take a look!

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 13d

KeyboardKit 10 will be released tomorrow, September 29! 🚀 The website has been updated for this brand new version, and the online documentation has a new home up at

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 16d

KeyboardKit 10 will be released on Monday, hitting that September goal with a wiiiide 1 day margin ☺️ The website has been updated for the new version and the online docs will be updated this weekend.

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KeyboardKit is a powerful SDK for creating custom keyboard extensions

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 19d

KeyboardKit 10 Beta 3 is out! 🚀 This update has a brand new emoji keyboard 😀 and two new themes 🎨. This version also polishes many things before the upcoming release.

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KeyboardKit 10 Beta

The KeyboardKit 10 Beta is now available to developers! This test version lets you take KeyboardKit 10 for a test drive and provide early feedback and bug reports.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · 27d

KeyboardKit 10 Beta 2 is out! 🚀 This update adds many new settings, adjustments and bug fixes, and splits the keyboard settings screen into one screen per feature.

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KeyboardKit 10 Beta

The KeyboardKit 10 Beta is now available to developers! This test version lets you take KeyboardKit 10 for a test drive and provide early feedback and bug reports.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Sep 8

KeyboardKit 10 Beta 1 is out! 🚀 This beta fixes a bunch of things from the Developer Preview, and adds support for clipboard integrations, and for typing with custom fonts.

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KeyboardKit 10 Beta

The KeyboardKit 10 Beta is now available to developers! This test version lets you take KeyboardKit 10 for a test drive and provide early feedback and bug reports.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Sep 6

KeyboardKit 10 gets a built-in clipboard! 📋 Users will be able to quickly paste from the system clipboard or a custom clip collections, with full clip management from the main app and keyboard. There will also be a new Clipboard keyboard, which lets users switch from the keyboard to their clips.

KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Aug 31

The KeyboardKit 10 Developer Preview is out! 🚀 This sneak peek lets you test the next major version before the upcoming release later in September. More features may be added before release. If you give it a try, make sure to report any problems you find. #swiftui

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KeyboardKit 10 Developer Preview

The KeyboardKit 10 Developer Preview is now available to developers! This is a first test version for all of you who want to take the next major version for a test drive and provide some early feedbac...

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Aug 26

KeyboardKit 9.9 is out! 🚀 This release adds new Liquid Glass designs to devices that run iOS 26 or later, and performs a bunch of small adjustments to make KeyboardKit 9.x as nice as it can be, before moving on to KeyboardKit 10.

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KeyboardKit 9.9

KeyboardKit 9.9 is out! This version adds support for Liquid Glass to all devices that run iOS 26, and reverts the layout view modifier beta feature that was introduced in KeyboardKit 9.8.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Aug 20

KeyboardKit 9.9 Beta 3 is out! This update fixes a few bugs, adjusts the emoji keyboard design, and extends the text document proxy with more cursor movement functionality.

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Release 9.9.0-beta.3 · KeyboardKit/KeyboardKitPro

This version performs final changes for 9.x and adds support for Liquid Glass. This version also adds new proxy extensions and fixes two auto-capitalization and keyboard casing bugs. ✨ Features Ke...

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Aug 17

KeyboardKit 9.9 beta 1 is out! 🚀 This version adds support for the new Liquid Glass design, and will tweak the layout configuration and keyboard styles for all devices that run iOS 26 or later. Try it now to be ready when iOS launches in September!
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KeyboardKit 9.9 Beta

KeyboardKit 9.9 beat 1 is out! This version adds support for Liquid Glass to all devices that run iOS 26, as well as all aligned platform versions.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Aug 17

KeyboardKit 9.8 is out! 🚀 This is a huge release with a bunch of new features like a new keyboard layout engine (beta), new keyboard type change observations (beta), new layout tools, action and callout improvements, etc. You can read more about KeyboardKit 9.8 here:
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KeyboardKit 9.8

KeyboardKit 9.8 is out! This version adds a new keyboard layout engine that improves the overall performance and makes it easier to customize the keyboard layout.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Jul 29

KeyboardKit 9.8 and its layout performance improvements will be released in mid-August. After that, KeyboardKit 9.9 will be released with brand new Liquid Glass adjustments for iOS 26.

You can read more about this here:

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#liquidglass

Custom iOS Keyboard Extensions and Liquid Glass

Apple’s new software design system Liquid Glass is soon here, and with it some big changes to how the keyboard looks. Let’s take a look at what’s coming and how KeyboardKit can help.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Jul 23

The KeyboardKit 9.8 beta 1 is out! 🚀 This update brings a huge set of improvements and changes to the layout engine, to make typing better than ever. This version also adds redrawing when the text field changes, new actions, callout improvements, and much, much more.
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KeyboardKit 9.8 Beta

The KeyboardKit 9.8 beta 1 is out! This version brings a huge set of improvements and changes to the layout engine, to make typing with KeyboardKit better than ever.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Jul 16

We're excited to announce the unified KeyboardKit SDK - a significant upcoming change that will gather basic and pro features under one roof, which will drastically improve your development experience.
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Evolving KeyboardKit: A Unified SDK for a Better Future

We’re excited to announce a significant evolution to KeyboardKit, that will drastically improve your development experience, and accelerate our ability to deliver powerful keyboard solutions.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Jul 15

KeyboardKit 9.7 is out! 🚀 This version reverts some previous deprecations, adds new emoji features, improves the autocomplete toolbar, and fixes some bugs. #SwiftUI

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KeyboardKit 9.7

KeyboardKit 9.7 is out! This version reverts some previous keyboard action deprecations, adds new emoji features, and fixes some bugs.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Jun 14

KeyboardKit 9.6 is out! New standard value builders and support for two new locales!

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KeyboardKit 9.6

KeyboardKit 9.6 is out, with new standard value builders, two new supported locales and some bug fixes and minor tweaks.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Jun 11

New post up on the blog - A Quick Look at #WWDC25 📄 While everything is very new and will change a lot until the September release, we have some work to do to support the new Liquid Glass design and to investigate if keyboards can use local intelligence.
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A Quick Look at WWDC 2025

Apple’s WWDC 2025 is on, with many news and updates, including a brand new unified design for all of Apple’s platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and CarPlay.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · May 21

KeyboardKit 9.5 is out! 🚀 This version adds new ways to customize callout actions, keyboard and button styles, and to apply themes, using view modifiers instead of services. If this works well, the view extensions will replace services in KeyboardKit 10.
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KeyboardKit 9.5

KeyboardKit 9.5 is out, with new ways to apply callout actions, keyboard styles, and button styles, as well as themes, using view modifiers instead of services.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · May 20

KeyboardKit 9.5 has been in development for some time now, but it's soon available as a beta. This version will start the transition from services to view modifiers, where the first step will let you customize callout actions and button styles without having to create custom service implementations.

KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · May 3

KeyboardKit 9.4 was released a while back, with performance improvements that aim to make typing noticeably faster and smoother on all device types. Developers who've upgraded: Are you noticing these improvements in your apps? We would love to hear about your experience!
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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Apr 22

The upcoming KeyboardKit 9.5 will start experimenting with replacing services with value builders & view modifiers, to remove the many complexities involved with services, service registrations, inheritances, etc. This post explains the changes, with some examples:
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Replacing services with value builders and view modifiers

KeyboardKit 9.5 will start experimenting with replacing services with value builders, which will make it a lot easier to customize things like keyboard callouts, layouts and styles.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Apr 21

KeyboardKit 9.4 is out! 🚀 This version adds support for Emoji Version 16, 4 new emoji locales, support for Pamiri Shughni, improved English autocorrections, and significant performance improvements due to fewer redraws while typing.
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KeyboardKit 9.4

KeyboardKit 9.4 is out, with support for Emoji Version 16, 4 new emoji languages, support for Pamiri Shughni, improved English autocorrections, and significant performance improvements.

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Apr 18

KeyboardKit 9.4 b1 is out! 🚀 This version adds support for Emoji 16 (8 new emojis), 🇹🇯 Pamiri Shughni, and localizes emojis in 🇫🇷 French, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇧🇷 Portuguese (Brazil) & 🇷🇺 Russian. It also adds new gesture configurations and will improve performance by reducing redraws.
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GitHub - KeyboardKit/KeyboardKit: KeyboardKit lets you create custom keyboard extensions with a few lines of code, using Swift & SwiftUI.

KeyboardKit lets you create custom keyboard extensions with a few lines of code, using Swift & SwiftUI. - KeyboardKit/KeyboardKit

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KeyboardKit @keyboardkit.bsky.social · Apr 18

JustType is a really good example of how adding AI to your keyboard can truly elevate the typing experience. 🤩

JustType AI Keyboard @justtypekeyboard.bsky.social · Apr 16

Stop juggling overpriced AI keyboards on your iPhone! No need to switch between keyboards or copy & paste between apps ever again!

Try JustType, the all-in-one, AI Keyboard. See link in profile.

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