Posted by futohq 2 days ago
With the risk of sounding like a broken record - what are people using on iOS? I've been using `SwiftKey` for a while as it has dictionaries for languages that the native keyboard doesn't have. But I would love to switch to something else, as M$ has been shoving AI features on it that I am definitely not interested in.
So far in this thread I've seen Grammarly and Nintype. The former seems to suffer from the same things as SwiftKey, while the latter doesn't look it's maintained (last update 7y ago). I don't mind a paid app, as long as it doesn't invade my privacy.
I'd also be very interested in SwiftKey alternatives, since MS already almost killed it once.
I am interested in something that has support for multiple languages + swipe support.
https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype...
Maybe this is supported only for specific language combinations.
Unfortunately some of those Swype nicities are patented [1], so other keyboards can't use them.
It’s unfortunate that the Bing team at Microsoft has so much power. They destroy products for the glory of Bing, and some money. Perhaps it’s about the money. But I feel like Microsoft doesn’t have to make a lot of money on everything they do.
I wasn getting a constant panel from them regarding using the backup feature, that will just keep re appearing.
It was so bad I even moved to GBoard. Not the same, but I'm getting used to.
Every year, I try the stock iOS keyboard, but then I always go back.
Boy did I hate when a "secure" input came up and I was forced to use the default keyboard.
Wrt the “occasional bug”, what happens is that sometimes (enough to make it bad) the keyboard doesn’t render at all!
But in general, there is no giant improvement, none of the major ones are even competent enough to figure out a grid of numbers is better than a row, but Apple is even worse - it doesn't even let you type a number on long hold, for some reason thinking that a letter ų you'll never type in your English life is a better alternative
To me, not being able to type in numbers easily is a permanent suffering, though ok, not the end of the world
And unfortunately don't think there is a single swipe keyboard that's properly customizable to fix those glaring issues...
my biggest issue is that i make up a lot of words as i type and the google dictionary for icelandic is .. well it can never be fully complete because of the way the language works, so dictionary words are always a mess.
What's the problem of Icelandic? Is it because you stick words together like in Danish or German?
Their local voice transcription is top notch and proper swipe gestures would be icing on the cake.
Now to fix that issue there tapping "Tuesd" sometimes suggests "Thursday"