Soldato
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Is it me or has gboard gotten worse?
I seem to be having a do a lot of corrections
I seem to be having a do a lot of corrections
Is it me or has gboard gotten worse?
I seem to be having a do a lot of corrections
I've been a Swiftkey user for as far back as I remember. I don't enjoy using it for its bloaty/laggyness but everytime I try GBoard, it's prediction is just awful by comparison.
I am gutted Swype has stopped support, moved to Gboard, hated it, and now use Swiftkey, but I really miss the single-backspace to delete entire predicted word. The hold to delete entire word in Swiftkey slows me down and messes up my flow.
Its still a bit janky on my 6P in the animations department and that's still quite a powerful phone. On my main S8+ it has the odd animation glitch here and there but for the most part it is OK. I always notice it upon pulling the keyboard up.I used to dislike swiftkey for that reason but I do find now that it’s not laggy any more. Maybe its my phone being fairly modern and high end, but then I’ve always had flagships. I think it has improved, personally.
I've not been able to use anything but GBoard, however this thread prompt me to go into settings and tweak a few things.
I noticed there's some learning there that gathers data from other apps and it also submits data collection back to Google. Turned both of those off. Also noticed you can reset your learnt words which may help some peoples issues with silly corrections.
I also noticed some things I didn't know you could do, like what it does with capital letters after punctuation, that you can scroll through words by sliding the spacebar (which can be turned off), turn off the voice input key, make numbers row permanent, turn off the swiftkey swipe typing thing (Glide Typing), turn off the contact and search suggestions, turn off auto-correction etc.
This has made it much nicer for me on my 6P.
This wasn't on IOS was it by any chance? My wife used Swiftkey on her ipad a while back and it was doing similar things to what you mentioned. I just put it down to the OS being a pain and removed it. It works fine with FB on her OP3 phone though.Well my swiftkey experiment has ended.
It was doing some real weird stuff in the facebook app - missing out characters at the start of every word. It’s probably partly the facebook app in fairness but as much as I hate to admit it I spend a fair bit of time in there.
This wasn't on IOS was it by any chance? My wife used Swiftkey on her ipad a while back and it was doing similar things to what you mentioned. I just put it down to the OS being a pain and removed it. It works fine with FB on her OP3 phone though.
Yep gboard has gone and swiftkey has been installed.
Some of the crap Gboard has been sticking in sentences has caught me out a few times over the last week or so to the point where asked my boss to do something rude for me!
Yes! Although that's what she was experiencing on IOS and Facebook. It was like a weird overwrite mode was on, or the cursor was resetting back to start after a letter was typed. I couldn't work out wtf was going on.Nope a Pixel 2 XL! It was a strange bug, every word I was typing the first character would delete itself as i was typing. It was either FB or the Swiftkey, and a restart probably would have sorted, albeit temporarily but it never happened on gboard.