Hi Heidi team,

I’d like to suggest a feature that I think could significantly broaden how clinicians use Heidi on iPhone: a system-wide Heidi keyboard with “Dictate Anywhere” functionality.

The concept would be a custom iOS keyboard that can be selected anywhere the standard keyboard appears — Mail, Messages, an EHR, referral portals, browser-based systems, Notes, Microsoft apps, etc. Within the keyboard, there would be a dedicated Heidi button

using the existing yellow Heidi icon.

Tapping the Heidi button would start Heidi dictation and insert the resulting text directly into the active text field. In other words, rather than having to open Heidi, dictate, process the text and then copy/paste it into another application, Heidi would

effectively become available wherever the clinician is already typing.

I’ve attached/mock-uped the idea. The workflow I envisage is:

Clinician opens any text field in any iOS app.

Standard keyboard appears with a yellow Heidi button beside the emoji/globe control.

Tap Heidi → Heidi begins listening.

Speech is transcribed and cleaned up using Heidi’s existing AI.

The finished text is inserted directly at the cursor position in the current app.

Ideally, users could choose modes such as verbatim dictation, polished clinical dictation, or perhaps configurable shortcuts/templates.

For clinicians, this could make Heidi much more than an ambient scribe. It would turn it into a genuinely system-wide clinical dictation layer for iOS. I could dictate an EHR note, an email to a colleague, a referral, a radiology request, a message to my secretary

or a clinical letter without changing applications.

A simple positioning for the feature could effectively be:

Heidi — Dictate anywhere.

I appreciate there may be restrictions around what an iOS keyboard extension can do with microphone/audio access, security and third-party applications. If direct audio capture from the keyboard is restricted, it would still be worth investigating the cleanest

Apple-supported architecture that produces the same user experience — for example, using a keyboard extension in conjunction with the main Heidi app or whichever extension/API Apple makes available. There are similar apps wisper flow and superwispr.

Future iPhone Duo / foldable iPhone support

I would also strongly suggest that Heidi plans early for Apple’s expected next-generation/foldable iPhone form factors.

If Apple releases an iOS 27 SDK with APIs for a dual-screen/foldable “iPhone Duo”-type device, it would be fantastic to see Heidi ready at or close to launch rather than simply scaling the existing iPhone UI.

The larger internal display could be particularly useful clinically. For example, Heidi could take advantage of the expanded workspace for:

* EHR or browser-based clinical systems with the Heidi keyboard across the bottom.

* Simultaneous transcript/clinical note views.

* Larger ambient-recording controls.

* Review and editing of generated notes alongside source information.

* Better multitasking between Heidi and clinical applications.

* Seamless continuity between the smaller external display and the unfolded internal screen.

The attached concept illustrates both ideas: Heidi Dictate Anywhere integrated into the system keyboard on the outer screen, and the same functionality being used to dictate directly into an EHR on the larger inner display.

I think these two developments could make Heidi feel much more deeply integrated into the clinician’s device rather than being another standalone application.

Best wishes,

Andrew