How are 3rd party keyboards working on iOS 9?

[gordon1234]

Does it gracefully fall back to the Apple keyboard that has suggestions? Or are we still stuck w/ a keyboard that doesn't have any autocorrect?

It falls back just fine, with suggestions, but I also seem to recall not having any trouble in that regard with iOS 8. Do you have the built-in keyboard completely disabled in Settings, or do you just have the third-party keyboard at the top of the list? (I do the latter.)

 

[Pug72]

Touchpal just appears blank on my iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2. Back to stock until fixed for me.

 

[ashindnile]

I don't understand. My fleksy is always slow to open. There's always a 1-2 second delay when going to type something while waiting for the keyboard to pop up. Is it just me??

No it definitely isn't just you. There's a delay all right but the point is it opens eventually, and many keyboards don't. And the delay is basically the time Apple keyboard takes to animate on open. But the newest beta adds this open animation and text formatting toolbar to all keyboards, a promising sign.

 

[ilucris]

Since the updateto iOS 9, I have a really annoying issue with any 3rd party keyboard. As soon as I lock and unlock my iPhone (6), the keyboard switches back to system keyboard. Happens everytime. If I reboot the phone it sticks for a while then falls back into this, rendering a 3rd party keyboard useless.
Since the 14 days have passed since I purchased my keyboard, Apple basically ripped me off :| as I cannot get a refund.

 

[flashflooder]

Disappointing that they haven't fixed performance and bugs with 3rd party keyboards by now... I'd really love to use one but ya more hassle than it's worth right now

 

[pacorob]

Swype works quite well with my iPhone 5s on iOS9 and it also worked very nice with 8.4
I also use Path Input on my iPad mini2 for quite a while now.

I did notice quite some lag on my iPad mini2 though since iOS9 to show any keyboard (3rd party or Apple's own).

 

[solly]

I've noticed a big increase in swift performance with iOS 9, still lagy sometimes in showing up but alot less crashes especially in messages.