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iOS 10.3 in the third major update of the latest iPhone and iPad operating system

The Sun reports tech giant has hidden two secret types of keyboard inside iOS 10.3, the latest version of the operating system which powers iPhones and iPads.

These two new keyboards will change the way users type.

One of them appears to be a “gestural keyboard” which lets you delete by swiping left on any key and insert a space by swiping right.

The other is a teeny-tiny “floating” keyboard which can be moved around the screen.

On the larger iPad Pro screen, this interface is about as large as the one people use to type on an iPhone, so could end up being very useful.

An Irish computer expert called Steve Troughton-Smith discovered the keyboards in a beta version of the software which was distributed to developers this week.

You can see how they work in the tweets below.

More on the new iPad keyboards—they date back to iOS 10.0, it seems, and there are two: a gestural keyboard, and the floating keyboard

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) January 25, 2017

This is iPad’s gestural keyboard (similar to Playgrounds’ programmer one). You can swipe left/right on any key to backspace or space pic.twitter.com/jaskd0EEEh

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) January 25, 2017

And this is iPad’s floating keyboard. Both of these are kinda fiddly and awkward and it’s not hard to see why they didn’t ship as-is pic.twitter.com/YB1q18ei2w

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) January 25, 2017

It does make you ? about trackpad mode, however. pic.twitter.com/SfCZR5o5vn

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) January 25, 2017

The keyboards are actually hidden with the iOS code, which means they are not easily accessible.

This probably mean they are still in development and will be introduced in upcoming smartphones and tablets.

Apple is expected to release a new iPhone later this, as well as an iPad.

Its next smartphone is expected to be a big release to mark the 10th anniversary of the first ever iPhone.

This story first appeared on The Sun .