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It's unclear to me if they're alleging that it's recently broken. I switched to iPhone at my wife's insistence 3-4 years ago and I have pined for Swype the enti

It's unclear to me if they're alleging that it's recently broken. I switched to iPhone at my wife's insistence 3-4 years ago and I have pined for Swype the entire time. It's so bad and I was spoiled by Android.

WalterGR 21d ago
What do you find lacking in iOS’s swipe keyboard implementation?
- Macha 21d ago
  Poor word choices. Backwards "corrections" that are incorrect.
- neutronicus 21d ago
  I can't comment knowledgeably. I just regularly have to try over and over again to get it to produce the word I want, and my memory is that this happened rarely on Android. Wait! I do have a specific criticism! There are certain two-word sequences it will not produce ("kill myself", "white women") and I could do without that little bit of editorial oversight thank you very much.
  - rootusrootus 21d ago
    And expletives. If I want to say fuck, that's my business, I don't need my phone refusing to allow it. If not for how embedded I am right now in the ecosystem, this keyboard & vocabulary behavior they force on me might be enough to make me switch.
    - phoghed 21d ago
      Swipe keyboard has given up and let’s me type fuck now
  - quasarj 21d ago
    Yep, there's a whole set of censored phrases. Kill won't let you type a lot of things after it, including "him" and "her" (well, I haven't tested on iOS 27 yet). I haven't tried the white woman one though, that is cracking me up. update: Okay I tried and sure enough, I'm laughing even harder now. The closest I could get it to swipe was "womanhood". Lots of Wohan's though.
  - jrflowers 21d ago
    Can confirm that you can’t swipe type “white women” on iOS 27 lmao
    - neutronicus 20d ago
      I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure it's been the case since at least 2022 when I switched from Android
  - phoghed 21d ago
    Who’re women Blank women Chinese women Indian women Jewish women Black men love Chinese women Black woken live Ellie men Kill your Kill mussels Lmao I never noticed this. I wonder if this is just risk aversion, since they don’t care if I type “white women make me want to kill myself” normally and even autocorrect half the sentence.
jitl 21d ago
You can install a different keyboard if you want. I used 3rd party swiping keyboards but ended up using the system one for the last few years because it doesn't bother me.
- neutronicus 21d ago
  I tried SwiftKey but decided it was worse
stavros 20d ago
I switched to iPhone for 2-3 months but the keyboard was so back I switched back to Android. If Apple can't get a keyboard (any keyboard!) to work in a decade, I'm going to an OS that works. It's crazy that SwiftKey was terrible too, even though it's the one I use exclusively on Android.

WalterGR 21d ago

What do you find lacking in iOS’s swipe keyboard implementation?

Macha 21d ago
Poor word choices. Backwards "corrections" that are incorrect.
neutronicus 21d ago
I can't comment knowledgeably. I just regularly have to try over and over again to get it to produce the word I want, and my memory is that this happened rarely on Android. Wait! I do have a specific criticism! There are certain two-word sequences it will not produce ("kill myself", "white women") and I could do without that little bit of editorial oversight thank you very much.
- rootusrootus 21d ago
  And expletives. If I want to say fuck, that's my business, I don't need my phone refusing to allow it. If not for how embedded I am right now in the ecosystem, this keyboard & vocabulary behavior they force on me might be enough to make me switch.
  - phoghed 21d ago
    Swipe keyboard has given up and let’s me type fuck now
- quasarj 21d ago
  Yep, there's a whole set of censored phrases. Kill won't let you type a lot of things after it, including "him" and "her" (well, I haven't tested on iOS 27 yet). I haven't tried the white woman one though, that is cracking me up. update: Okay I tried and sure enough, I'm laughing even harder now. The closest I could get it to swipe was "womanhood". Lots of Wohan's though.
- jrflowers 21d ago
  Can confirm that you can’t swipe type “white women” on iOS 27 lmao
  - neutronicus 20d ago
    I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure it's been the case since at least 2022 when I switched from Android
- phoghed 21d ago
  Who’re women Blank women Chinese women Indian women Jewish women Black men love Chinese women Black woken live Ellie men Kill your Kill mussels Lmao I never noticed this. I wonder if this is just risk aversion, since they don’t care if I type “white women make me want to kill myself” normally and even autocorrect half the sentence.

jitl 21d ago

You can install a different keyboard if you want. I used 3rd party swiping keyboards but ended up using the system one for the last few years because it doesn't bother me.

neutronicus 21d ago
I tried SwiftKey but decided it was worse

stavros 20d ago

I switched to iPhone for 2-3 months but the keyboard was so back I switched back to Android. If Apple can't get a keyboard (any keyboard!) to work in a decade, I'm going to an OS that works. It's crazy that SwiftKey was terrible too, even though it's the one I use exclusively on Android.