iPhone What's your third-party keyboard for iPhone?

[vine-boating]

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can anybody recommend a keyboard to use with the iPhone 8 plus? I am currently using the standard apple keyboard but tbh its pretty basic and coming from android I don't find it easy to adjust to....

How is Gboard on an iPhone? Dp they work well together?

 

[Banglazed]

I use SwiftKey Keyboard and it also allows you to swipe keys

 

[Lawzen]

I've been using Gboard as of late. Runs fairly smooth and it's nice how it has the numbers on the top row of keys. (funny how people were mentioning that early on in the thread)

 

[vine-boating]

I've been using Gboard as of late. Runs fairly smooth and it's nice how it has the numbers on the top row of keys. (funny how people were mentioning that early on in the thread)

Once you download GBoard how do you set it as your main keyboard and not the apple one?

 

[C DM]

Once you download GBoard how do you set it as your main keyboard and not the apple one?

Same process as basically any other third-party keyboard, like https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-...o-I-make-SwiftKey-my-default-keyboard-on-iOS-

 

[redleg6]

Meh and they can spy on you all day. I try to avoid using Google products as much as possible if given an option.

And Apple doesn't...are you kidding me?

 

[C DM]

And Apple doesn't...are you kidding me?

There are differences there. That said, this isn't really the thread for it all.

 

[Closingracer]

And Apple doesn't...are you kidding me?

Now you're just being paranoid. Google makes money knowing where you are and what you search.

 

[vine-boating]

Same process as basically any other third-party keyboard, like https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-...o-I-make-SwiftKey-my-default-keyboard-on-iOS-

Thanks....
Sorry for the silly questions this is just my first iPhone since I've moved from android!
You know when your browsing on safari do you have to 'clear your history/cache' like every couple of weeks like you do with android or is it not necessary?

 

[C DM]

Thanks....
Sorry for the silly questions this is just my first iPhone since I've moved from android!
You know when your browsing on safari do you have to 'clear your history/cache' like every couple of weeks like you do with android or is it not necessary?

Unless you have some personal desire or need for it, there's really no reason you need to do that.

 

[vine-boating]

Unless you have some personal desire or need for it, there's really no reason you need to do that.

Oh fair enough

On android you had to do that a lot intruder to stop the phone from slowing down lol

 

[pacorob]

I've been using Gboard as of late. Runs fairly smooth and it's nice how it has the numbers on the top row of keys. (funny how people were mentioning that early on in the thread)

Same here. Since Gboard is there I switched from Swype (which stopped). Overall it works pretty well although Swype sometimes predicted it better what words I swyped compared to Gboard but it wasn't as stable.

You can also decide if you want to give Gboard full access or not. If you give it full access you can also use GIF, YOuTube, search and voice (Google) from within the Gboard keyboard otherwise you can only swipe words.

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

Are third party keyboards able to be used with quick reply yet?

 

[pacorob]

Are third party keyboards able to be used with quick reply yet?

As far as I know (I run an old OS) still not I'm afraid which is really annoying.

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

As far as I know (I run an old OS) still not I'm afraid which is really annoying.

That's really too bad. Dealbreaker in my book.

 

[pacorob]

That's really too bad. Dealbreaker in my book.

I almost never use quick reply maybe also due to this. I sure hope Apple comes back from this and will allow it in the near future. A similar thing applies for the use of Siri and third party keyboards. Gboard got around it and is using their own voice feature in their keyboard.

 

[jr866gooner]

I've been using Gboard as of late. Runs fairly smooth and it's nice how it has the numbers on the top row of keys. (funny how people were mentioning that early on in the thread)

Number row? Permanent as well??

 

[pacorob]

Number row? Permanent as well??

The numbers have been added to the top row of letters e.g. in my case qwerty keyboard it shows 1,2,3,4,5,6 on those letters and when you long press on them you get the number instead of the letter.

 

[vine-boating]

What keyboards are you guys using now?

 

[pacorob]

What keyboards are you guys using now?

Gboard mainly although it isn't as reliable as Swype was with word prediction. Swype was a buggy app/keyboard though but word prediction wise it was good.

 

[kawa636r]

Gboard is fantastic!
Finally a keyboard which simplified a lot everything, because I can use 3 languages at the same time and there is haptic feedback also which is awesome!
and fully customizable, means that is the best thing I have discovered in my life about iOS keyboards, Google won totally the competition here!!!!!
always updated and working like a charm!
I have only disabled the Swype cause I don't like it and the one hand more, cause I feel it is useless

for everything else it is perfect!