Has Gboard gotten worse for y’all? For past year or so it’s gotten progressively worse for me. Has it been your experience too?
I’ve used it from way back when and it gets progressively worse each year. This app used to save my ass drunk typing and absolutely can’t now. Course it could be me getting worse so I don’t know.
I switched to Heliboard
Futo Keyboard for me!
HeliBoard or FUTO keyboard
I was so happy to try two keyboards I’ve never heard of, but sadly they don’t have Japanese…
FUTO has Japanese, it’s under settings > languages and models > add language
Ooh!! The set up was all wonky and it was going to a different keyboard’s settings.
Sadly, it now is apparent to me that it doesn’t have Canadian English. I just can’t win lol
Bummer, sorry
I was wrong, Futo did have Japanese! ありがとうございます！
Yep. I’ve tried out several FOSS KB, using FUTO now, but it still tries to correct local peculiar words to something close.
I’ve got an extensive personal vocab library to solve those issues, takes time.
I need to manually add some entries but have been lax af, to be candid.
It keeps on autocorrecting words to some totally irrelevant wrong word, much more often than it used to. Previously it would just fix the occasional spelling mistake and ignore most capitalized words. Now it regularly changes proper names to other random words, replaces it’s with its or your for you’re (or the other way round) but it’s almost always wrong even though I typed it correctly. I’ll go back and try to fix it, only to find it’s chosen some other random words to use instead of what I actually typed. It replaces correct words with incorrect words now way more often than it actually helps my spelling.
HeliBoard.
How does heliboard’s spell check compare to FUTO’s? I’m currently using that and while it mostly works, It’s horrible for anything that’s not English.
You download language dictionaries, so it depends on the dictionary quality for the language
I’m using both German and English at the same time, with sliding-support for both languages at the same time. The only situation I found the spell check become confused is when switching between languages in the same sentence.
I’m an English speaker so I have no idea about how it works for other languages.
It’s Google, so it’s intended to get worse over time. They design their products against you. I suggest switching to a different one not under a big tech company.
I’ve already made the switch to FUTO, but the autocorrect is horrible if you even slightly deviate from English, and due to cultural reasons it’s not easy to find an autocorrect for what we’re used to here.
I think it’s always been pretty bad, tbh, but it seems to have gotten especially bad in the past year or two. It’s always screwing up “if” and “of”. You’d think it would know which would make sense contextually.
I want to replace it, but I can’t find any decent keyboards that types Japanese.
Which ones have you tried?
Sorry, I only tried the two mentioned here but I am an idiot; Futo does have Japanese! Unfortunately it fits not have Canadian English so I’m keeping Gboard for now.
Yes
Yup, way more typos. Used to be able to swipe with very little error, now having to correct several times along the way. I don’t type on my phone often enough to be that annoyed yet, but maybe I should look into other keyboards too …
If you’re a native English speaker or from Europe I can suggest FUTO keyboard. It’s just not fit for my use case.
I’ve beenntrying O t FUTO for the last week and have not been very impressed with it over Heliboard. The autocorrect predixtion is either way too aggressive for some words, or just doesn’t bother for other words. I mean I could say the same thing for Heliboard, but that tends towork just a little bit better for me. Btw I didn’t manually correct any typos in this reply, that’s all on FUTO.
Trying it out now, so far so good!
I thought I was just getting old and incompetent
When one of my devices started complaining it was low on space, I noticed the Gboard was consuming half a gigabyte of storage. I tried a different keyboard, which annoys me very much, and I might go back to Gboard.
Why would Gboard require so much space? For a keyboard? How does that make sense?
WTF is it key logging!?
It would have to be logging way more than the things I’d typed on a touchscreen to justify that kind of storage consumption, though. Even one million characters is a ton of typing. But 500 million? I will probably never type that much in my whole life.
I switched to heliboard 3 years ago with the added swipe library. Heli is working on their own swipe now.
To clarify: you’re talking about the Android onscreen keyboard? If so, in what way has it gotten worse? Less-accurate predictions of words?
Yea that one. And yeah the prediction of words is what had gotten worse for me.
I’ve noticed that too, like the context clues are completely ignored, and it will constantly get common words wrong
All keyboards have been getting worse (both on Apple and Android). It’s impossible to type anything without typos anymore.
It’s gotten to the point I can see those typos online everywhere, and I know for a fact those typos are due to autocorrect getting bad, cause it’s similar to what I made while I used Gboard
Yes. Just switched to the Samsung built-in keyboard for now.
It was very good on predicting the word and the next word, then it it started to act like it’s guessing randomly.
Notice an increase on battery drain too.
