You don't have to "allow full access" to use it as simply a swiping keyboard. It's a better keyboard than Swype, even with "full access" turned off. I don't c

You don't have to "allow full access" to use it as simply a swiping keyboard. It's a better keyboard than Swype, even with "full access" turned off. I don't care about gifs or emojis. One of the only things I miss on iOS as an ~8-year user of Android is the swiping keyboard. This gets you that. Additionally, I think the privacy of using this keyboard without "full access" is better than using the android builtin keyboard. Unless google is doing some side-channel attack (is this possible? seems harder than on android) to funnel your keystrokes out through some other google app on your phone which does have internet access, it's just a dumb keyboard. Now, the sketchiness of guiding users to turn on "allow full access" by default... well. It would be paternalistic for me (as an armchair privacy enthusiast) to say "google shouldn't be encouraging the general population to divulge their keystrokes".