Is there an update on this? This is taking far too long to add simple voice dictation back into the app. Have you asked Watson for help?
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Yes, I do have an update - apologies on the delay, I was trying to reach out to as many individuals as I could.
Apple announced a while back that they are deprecating a development feature called UIWebView. This is something we've known was coming for a while, and have been in the midst implementing their recommended changes. What kind of caught us off-guard is that in iOS 13 keyboard dictation would no longer be supported without the newer updates for this feature deprecation. Due to the large number of features that need to be migrated off UIWebView, including many of our apps - Editor, VPN, mail, etc - there is a lot of work that needs to be done.
Due to the amount of work required, and the amount of time that we'll need to QA this, the earliest we could push up the changes was for our 3.98 release in early April (with a beta starting in mid-March). I know this isn't ideal, but given what has to go in to this, it would be much more detrimental if we rushed it and potentially impacted something much larger negatively.
We'll be putting out a statement in the portal in the next week or so.
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Matt Shaver
System Architect
IBM
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