How many of y’all are using swipe-to-type on your phones still? (Me! 👋)

@jarrod Not all the time, mind you, but regularly.

@jarrod “Fun” fact:
The stock iOS keyboard for my language (Norwegian) has received zero (0) new features since iOS 9(!).

So of course no new LLM autocorrect - but also no swipe typing and no word predictions. 🙃

@jarrod Yep, big swipe-typer here!

@jarrod Very, very occasionally. Usually when I can’t hold my phone with both hands.

@Havn What?! Those don’t all get updated together?

@jarrod Nope! Can you imagine using the keyboard without any of those things??

I get not getting to every supported language at once - but I wonder if they’ve forgotten that we exist? Like, is there a queue somewhere that they’re working through, and soon they’ll get to what we should’ve gotten in iOS 10? 😛

(I use SwiftKey, which at least has swipe typing and word predictions. Also better than stock on punctuation, and I can have both Norwegian and English simultaneously.)

@Havn Yeah, sounds like a case of it being forgotten, which sucks. Luckily a third-party is filling in the gap for you.

@jarrod Yeah, SwiftKey is good - but there are of course positives with being able to use the default…

@jarrod yup, using it right now!

@kev Oh really? I’ve not tried it on Android to compare, so I’ve been satisfied with it on iOS.

@takeo 🙌

@jarrod not for anything long form but definitely for quick replies or until it predictions let me down.

@kev I’ll admit that I think the rhetoric around the transformer model “fixing” the keyboard in the latest update was overblown. It’s better, but still not great for me.