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On October 20, 2026, the author released Zihao, an iPhone input method. The input method is now available on the App Store, is based on the Rime (Zhongzhou Yun) engine, and comes with Wusong Pinyin built in. According to a report by Shaoshupai the same day, its basic typing features are free and ad-free, and typed content is processed only on the phone; it supports importing Rime configuration folders, ZIP files, YAML files, or GitHub repositories and updating them automatically, and the lexicon can be synced to iCloud Drive in Rime format and merged with Mac Squirrel. The author says that in simulated tests, the one-pass accuracy rate for sentences with 2 wrong letters rose from 36% to 56%, and for 3 wrong letters from 26% to 53%. There are currently no subsequent developments.
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Zihao Input Method Lands on iPhone: Built on the Rime Engine, Supports Importing Custom Schemes
The author has released Zihao, an iPhone input method built on the Rime (Zhongzhouyun) engine with Song Pinyin built in. Basic typing features are free and ad-free, and typing content is processed only on the phone. It supports importing Rime configuration folders, ZIP, YAML, or GitHub repositories with automatic updates, and dictionaries can be synced in Rime format to iCloud Drive and merged with Squirrel on Mac. The author says that in simulated tests, the first-try accuracy for sentences with 2 mistyped letters rose from 36% to 56%, and for 3 mistyped letters from 26% to 53%.