FAQ

Deftkeys is a keyboard for iPhone, made for people who reply to clients by text all day. It’s a full keyboard with glide typing and suggestions, plus one-tap replies, templates with fill-in fields, text shortcuts, your contact card, clipboard history and tone rewrite, all in the bar above the keys.

Almost any app where you type: Messages, Mail, messaging and social apps, booking and CRM apps, notes and more. iOS switches to Apple’s keyboard in password and phone-number fields, and in apps that don’t allow third-party keyboards.

Any iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Tone rewrite with Formal, Friendly and Concise needs an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, with iOS 26 or later; Fix grammar works on every iPhone. Deftkeys doesn’t have an iPad layout or an Android version yet.

English. Suggestions, autocorrect and the built-in replies use Australian and British spelling (colour, organise), and common business shorthand such as EOD, COB and KPI is left alone. [Confirm: The app’s word list and tone instructions are en-AU only. Update this answer if US spelling or more languages are added before launch.]

Yes. Save your review request as a template, with your review link in the text and a {name} field, and send it in a couple of taps. Deftkeys only inserts the text. It doesn’t send messages for you, connect to review sites or track reviews.

There are no team accounts. You can export your library as a .json file in Settings › Privacy and a colleague can import it into their own Deftkeys app.

Like every keyboard, it receives your keystrokes so it can type them, suggest words and autocorrect. It does that in memory on your iPhone and doesn’t log, store or send them. Deftkeys has no servers, no account, no analytics and no network code.

Full Access is an iOS setting that lets a keyboard do more. Deftkeys uses it only so the keyboard can read the templates, shortcuts and contact card you save in the app, keep clipboard history on your iPhone, and play haptics. iOS shows the same warning for every keyboard. Typing, the built-in replies and Fix grammar work without it.

Only on your iPhone: in the templates you save, the last 8 names you typed into {name} fields, and your clipboard history if it’s on. Deftkeys never asks for your Contacts and we never receive any of this. See the Privacy Policy.

No. It uses Apple’s on-device language model on your iPhone. Fix grammar runs inside the app with built-in rules. [Confirm: the released app only uses Apple’s on-device model.]

Not yet. Your data stays on your iPhone and is included in your normal iPhone backups. You can also move your library with export and import.

In the app, go to Settings › Privacy › Delete All Data, or delete the app. See Delete your data.

Yes. The full keyboard and all 88 built-in replies are free, with 10 templates and 3 shortcuts of your own and 5 tone rewrites a day. Deftkeys Pro removes the limits. See Pricing.

Go to Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions › Deftkeys on your iPhone. You keep Pro until the end of the period you’ve paid for. Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

No ads, ever. The keyboard never shows prices or purchase buttons. If you reach a free limit, it says so plainly, and upgrades happen only in the Deftkeys app.