Submitted 1 year ago by atocci@kbin.social to [deleted]
https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/191686
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.
Damn, talk about being on a roll!
T9 was the shit
I still use Swype somehow? Not sure how the app is still working after it was acquired, and I thought, abandoned.
Have tried many other swipe capable keyboards and none compare for me for some reason (even though quality of Swype recognition has gone down noticeably over the years).
I thought it was just me. I swear the version of Swype that came with an ancient Motorola running Android 4 worked better than the version I use now.
I never could get into it. I type like it’s a keyboard I actually don’t even look at the keyboard I am looking at the input field and glancing down if I have to. Swipe sucks for me and is way less accurate than my method and I actually have to focus on the keyboard just to have worse WPM. I also get pissed off cuz if my hands are at all wet the typing tries to swipe.
P.s. it’s hilarious to me that this long existing android feature is treated like some unique cool thing when Apple finally adopts it 10 years later.
You should be able to turn off the swipe inputs for the kb entirely, at least i could on mine (the accidental activation was annoying me too). You can probably find it searching for swipe in the settings.
Thank you! Idk why I never thought to do that before lol
Both, I use swipe as my go-to method but if it doesn’t write the proper word I tend to erase it and type it one letter after the other (which happened 3 times as I wrote this comment).
This is very common if you switch languages often. Half the time I’m typing something in spanish and want an english word it jumps the gun and outputs a word I’ve never ever used, and viceversa. That said, I still prefer swipe.
same, but with more mistypes, as the Ukrainian language has all these word endings that make words longer and harder for the keyboard to guess.
This is the way! Also what a lot of others already commented, that it’s more smooth to use with one hand. For me it’s also nice to use, when it comes to switching languages. English is my second language and with swipe it feels like the autocorrect works pretty good, because it is more forgiving if you don’t know exactly how the word is actually written. A small idea about how the word is constructed is enough.
Yes, that’s my preferred method
I use it all the time, it’s incredibly convenient. I’ve been using it for years now though, granted. The most annoying thing is when you have to go back and type out a word letter by letter because it’s nowhere close to what you were looking for – but that’s also the alternative of not using Swype. So… Shrug
I use it almost exclusively. It’s not without its faults, but it does better for me than pressing individual keys.
Me too. Fingers too big for those little tiny keys.
Yeah occasionally when I really wanna make sure autocorrect doesn’t fuck around I will hit individual keys but otherwise it’s swipe all the time
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.
From the early days of Android, Found a add-on keyboard called Swype… Never turned back, prolly 13 years ago now?
The feature has been on the default Android keyboard for at least 8 years now. You just need to enable it.
I really liked Swype but I used to have really crappy phones. Back in the day I remember it could take about 10 seconds to even show up.
Yeah, same, I think I had a paid version of Swype way back when and used that until they integrated it into Android. That being said, there are some words I will type in letter by letter, because some longer words require a lot of swiping, or won’t be recognized easily. Autodefenestration for example.
I’ve been using SwiftKey since like 2010 when I got my first smart phone that didn’t have a keyboard (rip HTC Z).
I feel like the accuracy has gone down over the years. Also, Gboard has had an issue for a bit now where it will show that I’m swiping one long word but insert a different one when I let go.
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.
It often doesn’t work well for very short words, or unique 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.
Do people NOT use it?!
I'm surprised how many people don't in this thread.
I've never used it before but so far it seems slower than just typing with my fingers. Too used to using two hands to type I guess.
I tried using it for a few months and just kept getting wildly inaccurate predictions. It wasn't any faster or easier so I just continue typing normally. Plus the multi-language recognition isn't good enough in my experience.
I can already type pretty fast on my phone. Throw in the suggested word completion and I don't really feel like I need to use it.
Absolutely. Been doing that since my first Nexus phone. Without it, I find the mobile keyboard extremely unwieldy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have an iphone for work and I hate typing on that POS keyboard. Can’t even change it because Apple.
You should be able to change it now, there are other keyboards on the app store at least.
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.
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.
I switch between swiping and typing. It works pretty well most of the time.
Reassuring to see the love for Swype in here. I’m still using Swype on Android. I’ve tried that other keyboards, gboard comes closest but still lacks some of the quality of life little features from Swype.
Nope. I find with all the word replacements that are wrong that my typing is actually faster by just tapping the first 2 or 3 letters and hitting one of the suggestions.
I have used swipe keyboard since 2011.
Yep, it’s so good you can even type without looking at the keyboard, like I just did.
Sometimes when I can’t use both hands. Otherwise, I prefer typing.
I use it untill I need to type a name. Then I type normally and forget about swipe typing exists…
… I then start using it again the next week
Accurate
I’ve tried it but I hate it. It feels weird. Unnatural. Unintuitive. I would also prefer a real, physical keyboard to a touch screen.
GBoard is great for swipe typing and a must have on all my phones. I also like the one-handed mode which lets you shrink and move the keyboard for easier reaching. I usually have it small, slightly higher up, and on the right side so I can type without having to stretch my thumb and can keep a firm grip on my popsocket. Recently sent an entire text message without looking at my phone while walking down the street.
Ish. I go back and forth between swiping and typing for no obvious reason that I can discern.
I was an early adopter of T9 typing on my Nokia back in the day. When I finally got a smartphone, I found a keyboard app that had T9 as an option and used that. When Swype first came out, I couldn’t believe that another typing system could actually beat the speed and ease of T9 typing.
I’ve always preferred to type in full words and sentences, and I’m a good speller, so most of the reasons other people don’t like swipe typing don’t apply to me.
I’ve used it for several years now, and I could never go back. It makes me shudder to think of trying to type out words by tapping on individual letters again. Swiping is so much faster.
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.
Why do you need root or custom os for a keyboard apk tho, did you meant to say it’s not supported on latest android versions?
I think so. I tried to install a few different versions and got errors saying it wasn’t able to be installed. Assume Swype was a 32 bit app, which you can’t install on pixel 7 without doing away with the stock Android.
june@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I bounce back and forth. I’m faster using two thumbs and tapping but if I’m typing one handed swipe is far superior.
HollowNotion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the way to do it. Autocorrect is doing 90% of the work in either case anyway, lol.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I have autocorrect turned off.
Full manual baybeeeeee
ritswd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same, but even when I type one-handed, I also bounce back and forth at each word. Swiping gets short words wrong more often, but more rarely long words.
So for instance, for “I am on vacation”, the only word I’d swipe when one-handed is “vacation”. If I swiped “am”, I’d probably have a 50-50 chance of getting “an”; which may or may not self-correct later, depending on what else it got wrong.
ZappySnap@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Exact same. Two thumbs when typing longer responses or when both hands are free. One handed always swiping unless I need to type an uncommon word or name.