I’ve been using iPhones since 2007, but I’ve had enough. I have to talk about this. I recently gave Gboard another shot after a few years, and the difference is huge. I wish I didn’t have to worry about Google and privacy, but Apple’s swipe typing is painfully slow and completely inaccurate.
With Gboard, I can just glide through and get the words I want. But the iPhone keyboard keeps giving me weird words that make no sense. Like, it turned ‘keyboard’ into ‘Leonard’ and ‘Leones’… and ‘keeps’ into ‘Keis’ and ‘Keri’s’. I don’t even know anyone with those names. Why does it assume I’m always trying to type proper nouns? It makes no sense.
On top of that, the new autocorrect system keeps changing words after I’ve typed them, making things worse.
This is just frustrating, and we all know Apple isn’t fixing this anytime soon.
I only use swipe typing, and it works fine for me. I’ve used it since it was added to iPhones, coming from Android. But yeah, iOS definitely needs better accuracy.
Also, maybe I’m lucky, but I don’t seem to have the same keyboard issues that people complain about here.
I don’t think third-party keyboards really solve the problem. Apple barely supports them, they take forever to load, and they don’t work as smoothly as the built-in one. Also, they miss out on things like automatic OTP suggestions. Just feels like more hassle than it’s worth.