I'm absolutely biased here, but still something seems........ Off. Like WAY off!

The iOS keyboard can be annoying but it's serviceable. Yeah I mispress keys quite often and iOS's spell checker makes me go "WERE YOU BORN YESTERDAY!? %s is obviously a real word!"

But I can write my Rats of NIMH fanfiction, and it doesn't feel like I'm wading through mud.

Meanwhile over on Android with both GBoard and Samsung's offerings, I mistype characters. Constantly. Typing is a genuine chore.

Okay maybe I need to retry GBoard as I was using it on an ultra cheap and nasty (but very much fun to root and play with) Mediatek android phone with "probably not the best capacitive touchscreen digitizer Shenzhen has to offer".

(If you don't have a """"junkie"""" Mediatek android phone running a modernish version of Andoid: Get one! They're fantastic!)

But that "Samsung Keyboard" ma'am, it just..... Ugh I hate using it so much. It is a HORRIFIC slog trying to type more then a sentence with it!

Idk, does anyone else have the inverse experience of me?

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[–] 5 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I find gboard to be fine on my note 9, and the few times I have to use an iOS on screen keyboard (when fixing boomers' ipads) I find it extremely annoying to use. No long pressing the top row for numbers is irritating, but the worst part of typing in iOS isn't the keyboard itself but the cursor. It seems to refuse to go to the middle of a word so anything the autocorrect doesn't get right I have to retype the entire word.

Also don't forget swipy typing

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    the lack of swipe typing on my ipad is infuriating

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    You can hold the spacebar to scrub through text, letter by letter

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