Add the Flula keyboard in Settings and turn on Allow Full Access. In any app, hold the globe key, choose Flula and tap the microphone. The first tap opens Flula to turn the microphone on: swipe back and tap again. After that, Flula stays ready, so the next taps start right in the keyboard.
01 Get Flula
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Setup walks you through the microphone, the keyboard, how Flula writes and a first dictation. Here’s what the keyboard steps ask, and why.
02 Add the keyboard and allow Full Access
In setup, tap Open Settings: it opens Flula’s page in Settings. Tap Keyboards, turn on Flula and Allow Full Access, then tap Allow. To do it by hand, go to Settings › General › Keyboard › Keyboards › Add New Keyboard, choose Flula, then tap Flula and turn on Allow Full Access.
iOS closes Flula when Full Access changes. Open it again and setup picks up where you were.
03 Why Flula needs Full Access
iOS doesn’t let keyboards use the microphone. So the Flula app records you, and the keyboard tells it when to start and stop, then types what comes back. Full Access is what lets the keyboard and the app pass those words to each other, through storage the two share on your iPhone. The keyboard itself never goes online.
iOS warns that a keyboard with Full Access could send what you type. Flula’s keyboard never records what you type. With Use the text around the cursor on, each dictation takes about a sentence either side of the cursor along, so capitals and names fit. It never comes from password fields, codes or card numbers, and Flula doesn’t keep it. Turn it off in Flula’s Settings › Keyboard.
Without Full Access the Flula keyboard still types. It just can’t dictate or play haptics, and its bar says Turn on dictation, which takes you back to this step.
04 Why the first tap opens Flula
Only the app can turn the microphone on, so when Flula isn’t ready, the microphone in the keyboard opens it. Flula switches the microphone on, records nothing, and says Flula is on. Swipe right along the bottom edge of the screen, or tap your app’s name at the top left, to go back. Then tap the microphone and talk: your words go where your cursor is.
iOS doesn’t let an app send you back by itself, so that one swipe is yours.
05 Ready for 15 minutes, with an orange dot
Once Flula is on, it stays ready: the microphone is open, but nothing is recorded until you tap. That’s why later dictations start right in the keyboard. While it’s ready, iOS shows an orange dot at the top of the screen, and Flula’s Live Activity counts down to the microphone turning off, with Talk and Turn off buttons.
Flula stays ready for 15 minutes after each dictation, then turns the microphone off, and the next tap opens Flula again. A phone call, or another app taking the microphone, ends it sooner. Change how long in Flula’s Settings › Microphone › Keep Flula ready: 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, or Until I turn it off. To stop now, tap Turn off in the Live Activity.
Tips
- Tap the microphone to start and again to stop, or hold it while you talk and let go to finish.
- iOS doesn’t tell keyboards which app they’re in, so pick how Flula writes with Write as in the keyboard: Messages, Work chat, Email or Everything else. It stays until you pick another.
- Want to go through it again? Walk through setup again is at the bottom of Flula’s Settings.
Flula for Mac signs in with the same account, and your minutes, Dictionary and styles come along.
Flula for Mac