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 don’t use GBoard
I have disabled auto-correction some time ago because it would make things worse more often than not. Used not to be that bad, if I remember correctly. Now I send a lot of typos, but at least the recipient has chance to guess what I meant.
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
What’s a Gboard
The default keyboard on your phone.
Not really, a lot of android phones ship with either a custom keyboard or the (horrible) AOSP one. Pixels have been the only devices i’ve used that use Gboard per default.
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.
I haven’t been experiencing any differences. Been using it for 4+ years.
not really. it’s been fine for me. I keep trying to switch to Kubo, which I paid for, but I can’t last more than a few hours on it.
Yes
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.
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
There’s two or three problems happening.
First, transferring a full-size keyboard to a phone is a GARBAGE concept.
Second, you know it’s a garbage concept because almost all the innovation in this space is based around, " How can we make this GARBAGE concept work?" So you have lots of clever work around like autocorrect and swipe.
Third, because these solutions require a bit of programming oomph, they are liable to corporate whimsy.
My solution: ditch the full size keyboard for an input method designed for small screen. Suck it up for a month, learn a new system, and be set for life.
I use this guy: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key , a 9-key system that has buttons big enough that you can actually confidently type when you mean to type without autocorrect, auto predict, or any kind of statistical-computational shennanigans. Learn it once and never worry about this shit again.
Edit: Please reply with “I’m too lazy to learn a new input method and don’t appreciate you making me confront that fact” instead of downvoting.
Also fan of thumb key. so easy without looking
What layout are you using? Does it have accents?
I’m too lazy to learn a new input method but I do appreciate you making me confront that fact.
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.
Trying it out now, so far so good!
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.
Thanks to parent for posting this. I’m now in the market for a new keyboard because I just hadn’t paid enough attention but gboard is complete garbage.
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.
Yup. Steady decline in accuracy when swiping, words/names I use everyday (and have added to a custom dictionary) aren’t chosen from the swipe, and even on actual touchtype it corrects to words I never/rarely use.
