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I will be surprised if this post turns up any experienced dvorak typists who want an onscreen keyboard to be non-qwerty. I've been typing dvorak for over twenty years and prefer all non-touch-type keyboards to be qwerty so I can find the keys fastest.

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Well, surprise to you! :-)

I'm not fanatic about iPhone/Android, but if I'd looked into switching to iPhone then this would be a hard dealbreaker for me.

I've been on Dvorak something like 15 years. All my devices use it.

Do you use a swipe keyboard on your phone?

I do, and I missed being able swipe on ios after moving to dvorak. It does take some getting used to, even for a dvorak typist, but in my subjective experience, I find the dvorak swiping accuracy to be better. I’ve read the reasoned argument that it should be worse, but it hasn’t been my experience.

On computers, with a real keyboard, I prefer blank keycaps. I don't mind a qwerty layout, I just set it to dvorak in software.

I've been using dvorak for 10+ years now and have always used it on my (Android) phone as input method too. In my experience it's not a positive nor a negative to use dvorak on a mobile phone. My brain is so used to dvorak now that I just keep it on dvorak.

hand raised Me! I've been typing Dvorak for 15+ years, wanted an iOS version, and previously had to resort to using the Gboard app (Google's keyboard app) in order to get this on iOS. I'm thrilled this is now available natively.

I switched to Dvorak in 2009 for touch typing on a full-sized keyboard (IBM Model M). When I got my first smartphone (Nexus 4), I used a Dvorak keyboard layout for quite a while, but I found that the arrangement of the Dvorak layout, so ideal for touch typing, actually made two-thumb typing a bit tougher than QWERTY on a small mobile device. I switched back to QWERTY on mobile permanently when I first got access to a swiping keyboard, because there's less ambiguity per pattern (since common letters are spaced further apart).

I'm an Android user which has had Dvorak phone keyboards for years and I've used them since I switched to Dvorak on the desktop. I'm sure there's not the same benefit, but I can touch type on my phone pretty well, and I definitely can't do that with qwerty. It's probably just habit, but it's nice to have the option. I'll definitely be switching over my iPad keyboard.

Yep. Also I don't know about other Dvorak users but I've been using blank keyboards for 15 years since there's no point having a qwerty layout on there. I didn't even recognise the Dvorak layout in the picture.

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