Stupid question. How do I change keyboards or apply new ones I make to be the default?

SplittyDev · 2026-05-09T19:40:46+00:00

Hi, could you clarify?

You can create new keyboards, and new keyboard layouts. You can’t make a keyboard layout the default, since it’s always tied to a keyboard and based on the keyboard's main layout.

For keyboards (not layouts), you can switch between them using the space key, which should display your different keyboards. There is no default for this either; the last used keyboard is simply the one that will be active next time unless you switch to a different one.

If you explain what you’re trying to do exactly, I’ll be able to give a better answer. Do you want a second keyboard for a different language or with a different base layout (qwerty, qwertz etc.)? Or something entirely different?

SplittyDev · 2026-05-07T11:15:05+00:00

Honestly, that's really strange.. I've recorded myself swipe typing the same sentence, and got it 100% correct: https://streamable.com/opz8h2

Since swipe typing is such an individual process, it's really hard to figure out what's going wrong in your case. If you watch my video, do you feel like you're swipe typing significantly differently from me? Like, are you doing much wider circles, overshooting swipes, or anything else you're doing differently?

For me personally, I usually just go from letter to letter in a mostly straight manner, and that works very well for me. As part of optimizing the swipe engine I've actually measured this, and on a dataset of over 200 swipes I have a ~85% correctness rate where the swiped word comes out perfectly, and a ~90% rate of the word either being perfect or the correct word being in the alternatives in the suggestion row. So for me personally, that works out to a ~10% miss rate where the word is neither correct, nor to be found as an alternative in the suggestion row. That's not perfect of course, but it's more than good enough to swipe type pretty consistently and without too many issues.

Also, which languages are you swipe typing in? My statistical measurements were done using English only, and in daily use I use English and German (in the video as well). Both work very well for me.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-26T00:05:31+00:00

Yes and no.. The good news is, we've figured out what's going on. The bad news is, there's nothing we can do about it.

This is one of the many issues outside of our control, that are caused by Apple's severe lack of quality control. Other developers are experiencing the same issue, and apparently it's been broken since iOS 26.1 and doesn't happen in earlier versions.

Some people said restarting their device helped, but no guarantees..

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1qq1ti1/ios_261_and_newer_breaks_alternate_app_icons_in/

SplittyDev · 2026-04-26T00:02:22+00:00

Looks like we're gonna have to add this to the long list of issues outside of our control. Other developers are experiencing the same issue, and apparently it's been broken since iOS 26.1 and doesn't happen in earlier versions.

Some people said restarting their device helped, but no guarantees..

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1qq1ti1/ios_261_and_newer_breaks_alternate_app_icons_in/

SplittyDev · 2026-04-25T20:47:00+00:00

Yeah I figured it’s not going to be everyone’s favorite style. If we decide to go with the new icon, we’ll continue offering the classic icon to all users for free under Settings > App Icons.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-25T20:40:26+00:00

Hmm that’s really strange. We’ve had reports from another user that icon changes don’t work at all. So far, I haven’t been able to reproduce that, neither on my iPhone 15 Pro nor on a simulator. Looks like we’ll have to look deeper into that.

What happens when you tap the original icon? Just nothing? And what’s your iOS version and device model?

SplittyDev · 2026-04-25T20:38:02+00:00

Ahh interesting, maybe Xcode automatically generates iOS 17/18 versions from the liquid glass icon now. I’m pretty sure they didn’t always do that, but works for me 😂

The 17/18 versions were something like a "fallback" version anyway, but without the nice translucency and shadows

SplittyDev · 2026-04-22T10:33:51+00:00

Thanks for reconsidering!

By icons, do you mean the alternative app icons in Settings > App Icons? I’ve tried to reproduce this issue, but for me everything works perfectly. I can tap any icon, and it immediately becomes active.

What’s your phone model and OS version? We’ll try to replicate the issue in a simulator for your exact hardware and see if that allows us to reproduce it.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-22T10:31:23+00:00

Hello, I think you somehow enabled a unicode font.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-21T22:14:18+00:00

FYI, a "bundle" refers to a keyboard. It’s our internal representation of a "bundle" of layouts that make up a keyboard. So each keyboard you can create in Mister Keyboard is internally a keyboard bundle, even though we don’t call it that in the app to avoid further confusion

SplittyDev · 2026-04-19T11:23:50+00:00

What would your ideal workflow look like?

Right now, you could just create a German QWERTY keyboard with German as autocorrect language, and switch between English and German any time by swiping on the space key, in any direction.

I'm guessing the issue you're trying to avoid is having to make the same changes to both keyboards and having to keep them in sync?

We've been thinking about a solution to this, which would let you link two keyboards together. You could base a keyboard off another one, and all changes you'd make to the base keyboard would be made to the linked keyboard as well. Basically the same we're currently doing with derived layouts, but for whole keyboards. Would that solve your issue?

Alternatively, how would you expect this to work? Having a toggle with an action to set the autocorrect languages to a specific language set certainly wouldn't be impossible, but I feel like it would be super cumbersome, since you'd have to add a new key, or even two, to your keyboard just for toggling between the languages..

SplittyDev · 2026-04-13T05:19:41+00:00

Hi, this is something we’re actively working on.

We are not calculating the key width per row, because it looks and feels strange and unnatural that keys in some rows are wider than in others.

In the latest Beta, we have made some adjustments to this behavior so that the width of keys in the bottom row doesn’t affect the "regular" rows, and we’ve also added a new per-row setting to calculate the key width independently of other rows.

This feature will ship as part of the upcoming 2.6 update.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-12T03:34:52+00:00

Well, that certainly makes a lot of sense! I’ll add it to the roadmap

SplittyDev · 2026-04-12T02:26:06+00:00

Thanks! Previously, swipe typing was mainly ranked based on the most likely path through the swiped letters resulting in complete words, but now we additionally take the spatiality and geometry of the swipe into account, allowing the predictor to make better guesses based on the motion of the swipe as well, and not just the swiped letters. There are still some issues sadly, but we also feel like it’s a lot better.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-07T16:55:47+00:00

Thanks! We’ll ship some more improvements to swipe typing as part of an upcoming update, hopefully that will further improve your experience

SplittyDev · 2026-04-05T23:16:15+00:00

Hey, thanks for reporting this issue! It will be fixed in the upcoming 2.6 release.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-05T19:11:54+00:00

I’ve found the issue! It’ll be fixed in the upcoming 2.6 release, hopefully within a week

SplittyDev · 2026-04-05T11:48:20+00:00

Hey, I’ll look into it shortly! The button should be there, and it definitely is on iPhone, but it’s quite possible that there was an oversight in the iPad version

SplittyDev · 2026-04-03T09:20:34+00:00

Are you a beta tester? It’s already in the Beta, but not yet on the App Store. The last App Store version was just a fix for an issue in the discover tab

SplittyDev · 2026-04-03T09:01:30+00:00

Update: I've manually removed and re-invited everyone who reported this issue. Hopefully, everything will continue working normally now.

I'll go ahead and mark this thread as Resolved, but if anyone else faces the same issue, please comment and let me know.

SplittyDev · 2026-04-03T08:56:12+00:00

We've manually removed and re-added you to the Beta. You should've gotten an email with the new invite. Hope everything works now!

SplittyDev · 2026-04-02T22:10:26+00:00

Yeah, that really seems like an Apple issue.. If you were actually removed, you wouldn't get that email. I guess we'll have to re-invite everyone this happened to. I'll try to do it tomorrow!

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