Support

Go to Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard and choose TypeOut. Then, in any text box, tap or press and hold 🌐 to switch to it.

Go to Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards, tap TypeOut and turn on Allow Full Access. iOS doesn’t let a keyboard read the clipboard without it. TypeOut uses it only for that, and makes no network requests.

Go to Settings → Apps → TypeOut → Paste from Other Apps and choose Allow.

Copy your text first, then go back to the text box and tap Type clipboard. TypeOut types text, so a copied image or file won’t work.

TypeOut stops if you leave the app or switch to a different text box, so stay in the same box, with the keyboard on screen, until it says Done ✓. If it stopped partway, the button says Continue: put the cursor back right after the typed text and tap it to type the rest.

iOS always uses its own keyboard for password fields, and some apps don’t allow other keyboards. Use your usual keyboard there.

Tap ABC for a regular letter keyboard. It works even without Full Access. Or tap 🌐 to switch back to your usual keyboard.

Tap Typos on at the top of the keyboard to switch it to off. Pick a speed under the Type clipboard button: Relaxed (30 words a minute), Normal (40), Quick (55) or Rapid (75). Each run varies a little around the speed you pick, the way a person’s typing does. TypeOut remembers your choices.

Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts in the address bar and set a new shortcut for TypeOut. In other Chromium browsers, open the extensions page and look for keyboard shortcuts.

• Click into a text box first, so the cursor is blinking in it.
• TypeOut can’t type on chrome:// pages or the Chrome Web Store, because Chrome doesn’t allow extensions there.
• Check that another extension isn’t using the same shortcut, at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
• Canvas-based apps, such as some remote-desktop viewers and games, don’t have real text boxes, so TypeOut can’t type into them.

TypeOut stops when you press Esc or click on the page. It also stops if you switch tabs, the page reloads or goes to another address, or the text box loses focus. To carry on, click into the text box, then click the TypeOut icon and choose Type the rest.

TypeOut sends real key presses through Chrome’s built-in DevTools protocol, using the chrome.debugger API. Chrome shows that bar whenever an extension uses it, so you can always tell. It goes away when TypeOut finishes. Clicking Cancel on the bar stops the typing.

TypeOut types line breaks as Shift+Enter by default, which is safe everywhere, including chat boxes where Enter sends. If you switched the line-break setting to Enter, switch it back in the TypeOut window. Use Enter only on sites that need it.

One-line boxes, like search fields, can’t hold line breaks, so TypeOut types spaces there instead.

Letters, numbers and symbols on a US keyboard layout are sent as key presses. Emoji, accented letters and curly quotes are inserted the way the emoji picker inserts them.

Click the TypeOut icon. Pick Relaxed, Normal, Quick or Rapid (about 45, 60, 75 or 95 words a minute; Normal is the default), and the Typos box turns the odd fixed slip on or off. You can do this while it types too: the rest of the text follows the new setting straight away. TypeOut remembers your choices.

No. There’s no account, no analytics and no ads, and nothing you copy or type leaves your device. The iPhone app and keyboard check typeout.app for updates now and then; that request sends nothing about you. Your clipboard is read only when you start typing, and the only things saved are your settings, on your device. See the privacy policy.

No. There’s nothing to sign up for.

Yes. Typos are fixed along the way, and the finished text always matches what you copied. Typos never happen inside @mentions, #hashtags, links, email addresses or numbers.

TypeOut for iPhone and iPad is free on the App Store, and the Chrome extension is free on the Chrome Web Store.