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I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

  • Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
  • Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

  • It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! ๐Ÿ˜„

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[โ€“] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No that's correct. It cannot distinguish between typos and different words

[โ€“] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a shame. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to implement one that doesn't change correctly spelled words at all.

[โ€“] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well SwiftKey advertised with some AI (actually just algorithm) that could analyse the words you typed before and glean from context what you are trying to say and correct accordingly. I find it's wrong more often than not so I keep autocorrect off. Also I use SwiftKey in two languages, English and my native language, Dutch. It does not anticipate in which language it should predict at all. It mostly just favours English.

[โ€“] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's exactly the kind of thing I don't want. If I wrote a word and it's spelled correctly, I wish autocorrect would leave it alone instead of incorrectly guessing a different word. Oh well, one can dream.

[โ€“] DecentM@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

No way to know if you meant to typo type or typo

[โ€“] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

If you type the wrong word, it will underline it and you can click on it, then tap on the correct auto suggested word. Very easy