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Similar switching story. I'm very happy with an iPhone overall, but god damn they keyboard took some adjusting. The default keyboard on Pixels (GBoard?) is exce

by jjice 10mo ago

Similar switching story. I'm very happy with an iPhone overall, but god damn they keyboard took some adjusting. The default keyboard on Pixels (GBoard?) is excellent. The autocorrect is also unimaginably better on the Pixel. It's embarrassing how bad the iPhone's autocorrect is. Not just missing obvious cases, but actively sabotaging correct cases.

glitchcrab 10mo ago
You can install gboard on iOS - I haven't used the default keyboard in years
- jjice 10mo ago
  Yeah I tried it and it doesn't stand up to it on Android in my experience. I figured I'd rather not give Google any data if the experience isn't going to be the same.
- lynndotpy 10mo ago
  Unfortunately, it's simply not as good. I miss long-press punctuation so much.
  - SJMG 10mo ago
    This 1000x over! On Android you have this and you can tune how long a long-press is. It's amazing and should be an advanced feature on iOS. I wish Apple would get over itself and expose settings for all-the-things, like how you can write default finder settings on macOS using the terminal.
    - lynndotpy 10mo ago
      Yes! I miss it very much. When I was on Android, I used to have it set to 100ms. I used to very quickly send well-punctuated text. On iPhones, it seems like the digitizer has 100ms of hysteresis built in. now i just Lettuce my iPhone sden whatever it wants with no punctuation its not real good Unfortunately, MacOS doesn't have settings (which I am told it had) for animation scales, like Androids have. The interface is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
- PieUser 10mo ago
  That buggy abandonware that hasn't been updated in 3 years?
- socalgal2 10mo ago
  It's abandoned and buggy. I'm surprised google hasn't just removed it from the store. I suspect as soon as it actually requires an update because of a change in the OS it will disappear. Yes, I loved it, but it crashed in too many apps and I had to switch to the Apple one :(
encom 10mo ago
>autocorrect is also unimaginably better on the Pixel Pixel user here. That depends on the language you're typing. Autocorrect and spellcheck, not just on Android but other Google products, will change correct danish to incorrect danish. It's infuriating. The issue I encounter most often happens because Google apparently assumes english grammar is universal, and insists on splitting compound words, which is never done in danish. Danish is already being heavily eroded by foreign influence, and this isn't helping.
tasuki 10mo ago
> The default keyboard on Pixels (GBoard?) is excellent. Not my experience at all. Do you only write English?
- mavamaarten 10mo ago
  I personally haven't found any keyboard that works better than gboard. And exactly because it's the only keyboard that just lets me type in two languages without having to "switch", and it does that well. Right now my spacebar just says "NL - EN" and it lets me combine Dutch and English just fine.
  - batrat 10mo ago
    This. I use romanian, english and turkish at the same time. Sometimes goes sideways because we mix a lot of words in english and romaninan in the same sentence, but it's ok. No other keyboard comes close.
    - parliament32 10mo ago
      Multilingual typing is a godsend. I did have to tweak settings though, like disabling the "suggestion strip" (because sometimes I'd be typing fast and accidently click the GIF button, then an image, which in many apps sends it immediately without a draft which was extremely annoying).
    - Mashimo 10mo ago
      I use 3 languages with SwiftKey and it works really well. That said, it got bought by Microsoft and now they try to cram in some AI nonsense :(
  - kergonath 10mo ago
    From my experience it is much worse than it used to be 5 years ago. I have been writing English, French, and to a lesser extent German on an iPhone since ~2008. Initially, the dumb autocorrect would just correct to the closer word in the dictionary corresponding to the current keyboard, but over time it would pick up more and more words I used regularly. At some point around 2018 or so, it was nearly flawless. I think it changed the dictionary depending on the language or the sentence, because I had different suggestions for the same mistyped word in the same document. Also, I assume that by then my personal dictionary was quite extensive. And then they bragged about a new machine-learning improved keyboard and it went downhill. First, all keyboards became monolingual, which was a 10-years regression. And even in that language, it was very flakey. They added multi-language keyboards somewhat recently and it got slightly better, except that for some reason it changes the keyboard back to the English-only one regularly for no reason I can see. It is maddening. For a couple of years it was fantastic.
chanux 10mo ago
Have you noticed any degradation of experience on mobile Safari with new glass interface?
gatnoodle 10mo ago
I've switched to GBoard on the iphone. I don't like the fact that I need to use a third-party software for something that's so crucial. But GBoard is so much better than the default iphone keybaord.
- rkomorn 10mo ago
  I was a gboard user on iOS for years but it progressively got so inexplicably unusably slow I gave up. Maybe your comment means it's got back to being usable. Edit: https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1091700242?l=en-GB https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1... No updates in 3 years? And search results complaining about gboard on iOS 26? Doesn't sound promising.

by jjice 10mo ago

glitchcrab 10mo ago

You can install gboard on iOS - I haven't used the default keyboard in years

jjice 10mo ago
Yeah I tried it and it doesn't stand up to it on Android in my experience. I figured I'd rather not give Google any data if the experience isn't going to be the same.
lynndotpy 10mo ago
Unfortunately, it's simply not as good. I miss long-press punctuation so much.
- SJMG 10mo ago
  This 1000x over! On Android you have this and you can tune how long a long-press is. It's amazing and should be an advanced feature on iOS. I wish Apple would get over itself and expose settings for all-the-things, like how you can write default finder settings on macOS using the terminal.
  - lynndotpy 10mo ago
    Yes! I miss it very much. When I was on Android, I used to have it set to 100ms. I used to very quickly send well-punctuated text. On iPhones, it seems like the digitizer has 100ms of hysteresis built in. now i just Lettuce my iPhone sden whatever it wants with no punctuation its not real good Unfortunately, MacOS doesn't have settings (which I am told it had) for animation scales, like Androids have. The interface is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
PieUser 10mo ago
That buggy abandonware that hasn't been updated in 3 years?
socalgal2 10mo ago
It's abandoned and buggy. I'm surprised google hasn't just removed it from the store. I suspect as soon as it actually requires an update because of a change in the OS it will disappear. Yes, I loved it, but it crashed in too many apps and I had to switch to the Apple one :(

encom 10mo ago

>autocorrect is also unimaginably better on the Pixel Pixel user here. That depends on the language you're typing. Autocorrect and spellcheck, not just on Android but other Google products, will change correct danish to incorrect danish. It's infuriating. The issue I encounter most often happens because Google apparently assumes english grammar is universal, and insists on splitting compound words, which is never done in danish. Danish is already being heavily eroded by foreign influence, and this isn't helping.

tasuki 10mo ago

> The default keyboard on Pixels (GBoard?) is excellent. Not my experience at all. Do you only write English?

mavamaarten 10mo ago
I personally haven't found any keyboard that works better than gboard. And exactly because it's the only keyboard that just lets me type in two languages without having to "switch", and it does that well. Right now my spacebar just says "NL - EN" and it lets me combine Dutch and English just fine.
- batrat 10mo ago
  This. I use romanian, english and turkish at the same time. Sometimes goes sideways because we mix a lot of words in english and romaninan in the same sentence, but it's ok. No other keyboard comes close.
  - parliament32 10mo ago
    Multilingual typing is a godsend. I did have to tweak settings though, like disabling the "suggestion strip" (because sometimes I'd be typing fast and accidently click the GIF button, then an image, which in many apps sends it immediately without a draft which was extremely annoying).
  - Mashimo 10mo ago
    I use 3 languages with SwiftKey and it works really well. That said, it got bought by Microsoft and now they try to cram in some AI nonsense :(
- kergonath 10mo ago
  From my experience it is much worse than it used to be 5 years ago. I have been writing English, French, and to a lesser extent German on an iPhone since ~2008. Initially, the dumb autocorrect would just correct to the closer word in the dictionary corresponding to the current keyboard, but over time it would pick up more and more words I used regularly. At some point around 2018 or so, it was nearly flawless. I think it changed the dictionary depending on the language or the sentence, because I had different suggestions for the same mistyped word in the same document. Also, I assume that by then my personal dictionary was quite extensive. And then they bragged about a new machine-learning improved keyboard and it went downhill. First, all keyboards became monolingual, which was a 10-years regression. And even in that language, it was very flakey. They added multi-language keyboards somewhat recently and it got slightly better, except that for some reason it changes the keyboard back to the English-only one regularly for no reason I can see. It is maddening. For a couple of years it was fantastic.

chanux 10mo ago

Have you noticed any degradation of experience on mobile Safari with new glass interface?

gatnoodle 10mo ago

I've switched to GBoard on the iphone. I don't like the fact that I need to use a third-party software for something that's so crucial. But GBoard is so much better than the default iphone keybaord.

rkomorn 10mo ago
I was a gboard user on iOS for years but it progressively got so inexplicably unusably slow I gave up. Maybe your comment means it's got back to being usable. Edit: https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1091700242?l=en-GB https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1... No updates in 3 years? And search results complaining about gboard on iOS 26? Doesn't sound promising.