WeChat input method is here: “WeChat Keyboard” App Test

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Text | Chen Qiaohui

Tech Planet exclusively learned that the WeChat keyboard app (WeChat input method) has been tested on a small scale. It is reported that the download channel of WeChat input method is in the “WeChat Reading” app, which focuses on “first letter search is more convenient”. This is also the first time that the WeChat input method has been publicly tested outside the WeChat App.

Not long ago, the news of Tencent’s application for registration of the “WeChat Input Method” trademark was circulated on the Internet, attracting many netizens to discuss and speculate that the WeChat input method will be launched, and now the guess has been confirmed.

Tech Planet Experience found that the download entrance of the WeChat Keyboard App is located at the top of the “Discovery” column of the “WeChat Reading” App, and the words “WeChat Input Method · Initial Letter Search is More Convenient”, click the download button to install.

After the installation is successful, this input method can be used in the WeChat Reading App. The user enters the first letter, and the input method can quickly associate the title of the book in the WeChat Reading App, which is convenient for users to search. It is precisely because the typing search function needs to be frequently used in WeChat reading, or it has become the first choice test scene for the WeChat keyboard app.

In fact, WeChat said last year that it would do an input method. According to TechWeb, at the WeChat Night of the Pro version of the 2021 WeChat Open Course, WeChat founder Zhang Xiaolong once revealed that WeChat will soon have its own input method, and a grayscale test will be conducted soon.

Zhang Xiaolong said that WeChat did not want to do an input method at first, but received many complaints from users that their chat records were stolen, because they would see corresponding advertisements when they typed. He explained that WeChat does not keep chat records, and WeChat also stipulates that whoever reads the user’s chat records will be expelled.

Then at the end of last year, a small number of users could see a plug-in function called “WeChat Keyboard” in the “plug-in” of the WeChat App. Users can set the keyboard plug-in. Open the permission in the input method management of , and set the WeChat input method as the default input method to use the WeChat keyboard.

The overall style of the WeChat keyboard is actually similar to the simple keyboards that come with many mobile phones, which also conforms to the consistent minimalist design style of WeChat.

From the plug-in upgrade to an independent App, it is enough to see that the WeChat keyboard will usher in a new “task”. As a previous test plug-in, it can only be used in the WeChat App, and there are also many WeChat-based products independent of WeChat, such as WeChat Reading, WeChat Listening, and WeChat Kids Edition. Compared with other input method products, the WeChat input method is more in line with the usage habits of WeChat users in terms of functional experience, and is more compatible with WeChat-based products in terms of functions, such as the above-mentioned “first letter search book” function, which can help WeChat Readers can quickly search for book titles.

Industry analysts believe that WeChat’s launch of an independent input method app is not to snatch the input method market, but as an important part of the WeChat ecosystem, serving WeChat users, optimizing the search terminal through independent products, and improving the search ecology.

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