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anyone using swiftkey with the 6?
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I still can't get my head around the idea of installing what potentially amounts to a keylogger. The way data breaches are sprouting up these days, it wouldn't surpise me in the least if it came out that one of these alternative keyboards had been phoning home.
I am. Its pretty buggy, but i still prefer it to the Apple keyboard just because I'm used to it from my Note 3. My biggest complaints are no arrow keys, and the fact the sometimes you have to close the messaging and reopen to get the keyboard to come up
Isn't that exactly why Apple selects the stock keyboard when it sees you're typing in a password? And hopefully once Apple Pay starts you'll be able to use that online through the phone so no more typing in CC numbers either.
Are you suggesting that one can't 'permanently' change it to Swiftkey and be done with it? That would be annoying too.
It's my understanding that's correct. I read it elsewhere here and have experienced it many times already; if you're logging in to a site, when you hit the "password" field the Swift keyboard will be replaced by the stock keyboard. From what I've read it's for security reasons, perhaps so that Swift isn't uploading passwords to the cloud, or because Apple's stock keyboard encrypts, or something. I'm not 100% sure.
Bugs:
1. I haven't experienced the Messages preferences that a user referred to earlier, where one conversation will have one keyboard and another will have Swift, but then again I installed Swift almost right away when I got the phone.
2. Scrolling. This is very annoying when the keyboard will pop-up over the existing conversation instead of scrolling it up so that it's always pinned to the bottom. Ironically, the keyboard actually did scroll the screen upwards when I was going to leave a review for Swift in the app store. This prevented me from selecting the number of stars I wished to give the app or the Title of my review. I had to switch to the stock keyboard to do it!
3. Not launching. Any app that uses the keyboard, sometimes Swift will simply not appear. I either need to restart the phone as another user suggested, or I "jump start" the keyboard into appearing by force-quitting an app that uses the keyboard (like Messages), and then re-launching it. The keyboard will then appear as normal. This is most-annoying because I use Spotlight frequently to quickly find and launch apps, and if I pull down to show Spotlight, sometimes no keyboard will appear at all. Or other times the keyboard will appear but it won't accept any keystrokes.
Still, though, it's usually a much better experience for me than using the stock keyboard. The idea of it essentially being a keylogger does concern me a bit, but I try to put that out of my mind and convince myself I'm being too tinfoil hat about it.
Bugs kinda getting blown out of proportion. Yes there is some things to iron out but it works perfectly fine in most situations.
Well, it sounds less than fine in many different ways for many different users. If they do get ironed out, fine. But if not, it sounds like swiftkey might not be worth it like it is on android.
Same for me. I noticed my screen freezing up, not allowing any typing. Just deleted about 5 mins ago, I'll stick to stock.
No one really knows. The assumption is, as with everything, that as iOS 8 matures and as some updates are made to the keyboard it will become better and better. Will that be actually the case? Who knows. Will it be perfect? Perhaps for some perhaps not.
Compared to android, the iOS versions aren't near the same quality. I remember using swiftkey two years ago and loving it. Immediately bought it for iOS and it just can't go without messing up for me. Skips to capital lettering randomly, jumps places on pages where forms are present, doesn't autocorrect correctly. That is just a cpl of complaints, BUT it will improve and eventually be the better keyboard, IMO.
Eventually. Remember that it have been on Android for over 4 years and am assuming it wasn't bug free on it's first release. Am sure they are working on improvements and it will only get better. And also I guess they will release a pro paid version of it with more features that currently are lacking.
I LOVED Swiftkey for Android... but it just isn't there yet for iPhones.
All the customizable options on Android haven't made their way over.
The one feature I do like is that you can hold some keys down to get to secondary keys like punctuation marks. But still missing a lot here.
If only the default iOS keyboard gave us this option. Long-press a certain key to bring up a question mark, commas, apostrophes, etc... I hate having to go the extra step here because I was so used to Swiftkey on Android haha
All the customizable options on Android haven't made their way over.
The one feature I do like is that you can hold some keys down to get to secondary keys like punctuation marks. But still missing a lot here.
If only the default iOS keyboard gave us this option. Long-press a certain key to bring up a question mark, commas, apostrophes, etc... I hate having to go the extra step here because I was so used to Swiftkey on Android haha
There's no microphone on swiftkey? Sometimes I'd like to voice dictate texts. There would be no key to do this if I used swiftkey?
Semi-related question: on iphone's keyboard, can you have both a key for microphone and a key to take you to emoji screen?
1 - no there isn't, a bit annoying but not sure where they'd put it.
2 - yes
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I use it for a day, remember how buggy it is, then go back to the stock keyboard for a couple days, then back to Swiftkey and repeat the cycle.