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I sideloaded HeliBoard on Android via F-Droid and the predictive text is coming along nicely the more I type.

I switched from Android to iPhone after they stopped making phones with QWERTY physics keyboards. I tried my partner’s iPhone and the screen typing was actually excellent. Now with HUGE version iPhones, it’s wayyyy easier for me.

I’m sure on-screen Android keyboards are VASTLY improved since then, but I don’t have any problems day-to-day shitposting all day

My favorite is how shitty voice to text has gotten over the last year as well

It's literally only gotten worse

A few days ago I tried to use it to message a friend about something cool I saw at work and it sent them a random URL because at the end of a sentence it didn't put a space it just started the next sentence

It's becoming literally useless due to random shit like that

My experience with iPhone

1. It over-emphasizes the first character when guessing your word, so the most common failures are when I have a typo as the first character, it guesses something completely different
2. Auto-complete. I have no idea what triggers it but sometimes it just decides to use whatever it has in auto-complete when I’m just trying to keep typing. This is the second most common failure and commonly results in extra words

I feel you. T9 on my sidekick in 2008 was better than my current predictable text. At one point my screen was so broken that I was using maybe a 1/4" sliver of the screen to text, and text prediction was solid enough to give actual suggestions

Oh I turn that shit off on literally everything because of how insanely bad it is, have been for almost a decade now.

Unequivocally.

Mine didn't even know that word.

Especially as multilingual it is a mess! It didn't use to be this bad!

I'm still using Swype & Dragon, and it's as awesome as it was 12 years ago.

Apparently it's not working with Android versions >12 anymore, so I'll ride this phone until it dies on me.

I've switched to Gboard on Android back in the days, when it was the only one with proper multilingual features, and been using it ever since.

I've experienced the opposite: I actually found it rather more helpful than not, despite the occasional errors like you mentioned. But nowadays it's quite rare that it "mispredicts" a word. And what I've found extremely helpful is, that nowadays it doesn't only correct individual words, but it picks up other grammatical errors as well in the sentence. So it's working for me.

I haven't noticed this, but I also have heavily curated my predictive text so that it doesn't even attempt to use uncommon words I won't use.

I'm a fan of HeliBoard now, it's not as good as gboard in it's word finding, but it's almost there. Good enough to switch away from Google by far.

Gboard is so good at predicting text it is scary sometimes.

Yeah, the frequency with which swipe row will screen things up is just mending.

Autocorrect is slave-mentality

i are, I generally have to make about the corrections per message in order for it to even be legible

(left it in all its glory for you guys)

I turned it off a long time ago when it started replacing entire sentences. So annoying!!

I still have the suggestions on but I might turn that off too because it keeps suggesting words in other languages even though I'm on the English keyboard and don't know much in any other language (and the only other keyboard I have is the Spanish one).

Also the dictionary doesn't have a shit ton of common words in it for some reason, so if I can't think of the proper spelling I have to look it up anyway. Which is also annoying because search engines suck and I never have a hard copy handy.

Ayo, whatever has been making recommendations for my next few terms in Visual Studio can go straight onto my phone, that shit is accurate 90% of the time it’s sometimes a wee bit concerning