Is this how most people type on mobile these days, drawing lines all over a keyboard instead of tapping the individual keys? I’ve never had an iPhone so I don’t even know if they can do this natively, but I know you can switch keyboards at least, so it should still be an option if not.
I bounce back and forth. I’m faster using two thumbs and tapping but if I’m typing one handed swipe is far superior.
This is the way to do it. Autocorrect is doing 90% of the work in either case anyway, lol.
I have autocorrect turned off.
Full manual baybeeeeeeLiving life in the fadt lane.
How do i upvote this harder?
TIL the creator of T9 predictive text also invented Swype
Damn, talk about being on a roll!
T9 was the shit
I feel like I’m much faster swiping.
Anecdotally, around me I’m the only one that swipes. I see a lot of my friends don’t swipe, and have even had people ask me about it.
Years, it’s then oily way I tyre on phoney any Moore.
Jokes, but it really is almost the only way I type on my phone anymore.
That’s how most my messages look before I fix them when I type normal.
Android user here. Swipe style entry now for maybe 8 years? So much faster than individual tapping.
Sausage fingers. Swiping is much more reliable than trying to hit the little squares…
Yes since when ever Swype was released.
When I got a pixel 7 pro, I was very sad to find out Swype dragon had been discontinued. The APK are still around, but I’m not sure I’m ready to root and or put a custom OS my pixel yet to get it installed.
I’ve been going back and forward between gboard and swift key. Both are orders of magnitude worse than Swype was at recognising traces for longer words. Blows my mind how Google and Microsoft still can’t build something as good as decade old Swype.
That was the only way I type on my android phone with GBoard but now with KDE mobile I am back in the dark ages.
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hate to admit it but yeah mainly when i’m driving.
For your safety, and more importantly, the safety of other drivers, bikers, and pedestrians… DONT TOUCH YOUR PHONE WHILE DRIVING!
You might not care about your life, but please dont take others. Please dont be selfish
I’ve been using SwiftKey since like 2010 when I got my first smart phone that didn’t have a keyboard (rip HTC Z).
Loved my HTC Z. I could type so fast on that thing
Annoyingly, my PKB stopped responding in patches, and they were out of production so they replaced it with a Sensation XL.
Flogged it when I got it, and went back to BlackBerry.
This Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 is pretty much the first touchscreen only phone I’ve had in about fifteen years.
The google gboard has it built in for android. It’s handy when using with one hand
Ah, yes. For one handed typing. It’s probably pretty accurate if it’s just learning off of the few phrases you type one handed. I’m sure it’s the same few pretty frequently.
i used to when i use pixel. Gboard is so good at it. iPhone stock keyboard is shit
Gboard is available on iOS isn’t it? I found it on the App Store at least.
Youre right. The reason i went with iPhone is im trying to avoid using google services. Im a fan of Android but google is crazy with all the tracking. Tried graphene but i need something that just works.
Also i dont like having too many apps on my phone.
You… Went to Apple to avoid Google? Seriously? Like Apple is somehow not as bad as Google?
Eh. Depends at how you look at it. I mean what else is there to jump ship? Graphene? Calyx? Im not young as im used to be. I dont have time to tinker everything. I just need something stable and just works. Grapehene is easier than ever. Just plug it in and youre good to go but you still need to find reliable email provider. contacts. notes and all that
What happen if my phone’s dead? Can i just buy a new phone and restore from backup easily like icloud backup?
Im not here to argue which is better at privacy or security.
You can only basically change the skin on an iphone keyboard. Downloading another keyboard still uses the apple keyboard under the hood. That’s why all Apple keyboards are such trash compared to Android.
Same with your browser. You can download a new browser, but it’s still Safari.
iOS keyboard is pretty good in iOS 17. The iPhone’s keyboard on iOS 17 leverages a transformer model, which OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) uses in their own language models, to learn from what you type on your keyboard to better predict what you might say next, whether it’s a name, phrase or curse word.
At first I never used it, always thought typing with two fingers was the fastest (and actually got me the result I wanted).
Nowadays I swipe 99% of the time on my Android phone and it is a lot faster. Especially when your phone learns the words you like to use. It’s not perfect of course and you will have to correct some words down the line (it still sometimes refuses to swipe “Fuck”), but overall I’m faster with it.
Also super comfy for long and complex words when you just roughly swipe it and get the full word written there without errors.
Overall though I prefer to touch type on a proper keyboard on the PC, that’s still the fastest :)
The inability to get duck to move up the list is insane. I’m blows my ducking mind everytime autocorrect rears it’s stupid ducking head like I’m a mother ducking child that can’t curse via text.
I’m a 40 year old man for ducks sake. Let me use a ducking word.
Swiped on my stupid ducking Gboard.
Duck it. My keyboard don’t want to use duck also!
Fyi. Used swipe also. Wow I’m getting the hang of this swipe thingie.
I tried it years ago on swift key. But because of android at that time being laggy as shirt. It wasn’t always working.
You got profanity enabled? It’s an option not on by default. Turn it on… Or don’t… See if I give a fuck. I might not… Because I’m running pretty low on fucks to give… and I don’t really want to run out else I’ll be fucked. Google default keyboard with profanity enabled incase you have to fucking know.
I wasn’t even fucking aware of the fuckin profanity switch. Thanks mother fucker.
No wucken furries ! Have a great fucking day!
Next time it autocorrects duck or ducking, try a long press on the word and you should get an option to no longer guess that word. Depending on the keyboard you’re using you can typically long press on fuck or fucking and add it to the dictionary as well.
It often doesn’t work well for very short words, or uncommon words and whenever I have to stop swiping to tap out individual words I feel like a time traveler being forced to use pre-historic tools.
