It's official. Microsoft has launched its long-rumoured Windows Phone-inspired keyboard on the Apple App Store.
Dubbed Hub Keyboard, the free app boasts a slick, simple design and some powerful in-built attachment and search buttons.
For example, you can quickly route through your OneDrive files and send a link to a photo or document stored in the cloud – with a few taps on the Hub Keyboard.
You can also copy and paste information about a contact by linking to your address book from inside the clever keyboard.
Fast document search, as well as the ability to instantly translate parts of messages are also baked into the Hub Keyboard.
Visually, the Microsoft Garage project resembles the Windows Phone Word Flow keyboard.
But unfortunately the final keyboard does not appear to have the fanned-out layout for one-handed use that was rumoured earlier this year.
Microsoft's nifty Hub Keyboard boasts similar functionality to OS X's Spotlight search box – making it much more than just a redesigned iOS keyboard.
Hub first launched on Android in February, but this is the first time Apple fans have been able to get their fingers on it.
Senior Designer for the Microsoft Office team, Steve Won said: "Personally I don't like switching between apps to do different things on my smartphone.
"But all these different apps on a smartphone, they have to conform to rules of a keyboard and that got me thinking about the project as an interesting idea I wanted to explore more.
"I was thinking about how we can help users be more productive in the mobile space.
"We're giving users a wider gamut of tools."
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