“Now that you can install third-party keyboard apps on both Android and iOS, developers are aggressively (and creatively) working to speed up how we input text while freeing us from typos or embarrassing autocorrect flubs,” Joanna Stern reports for The Wall Street Journal. “They’re rethinking how we interact with the keys — even the idea of keys altogether. You can still tap letters, but you can also swipe your finger around the screen, throw in chunks of pre-typed text, draw characters or even dictate to your phone. Some are beginning to bring desktop-like shortcuts and features to the palm of our hand.”
“Not all the options are created equal. I looked at no fewer than 10 oddly named apps — from Minuum to Fleksy — found in the Apple App Store and Google Play store to find a handful to recommend,” Stern reports. “SwiftKey remains my top keyboard replacement because, like a loved one in a decades-long relationship, it’s great at finishing my sentences. SwiftKey isn’t the only app that suggests words as you type. Both Google and Apple’s keyboards now do this. But in iOS 8’s first month, SwiftKey is already smarter at predicting my words than the rest. It suggests my often-used phrases (‘done and done’ and ‘k’), people (my boss’s name) and places (my favorite restaurant or my spin class).”
“A new $1.99 iPhone app called KuaiBoard makes adding long phrases or addresses dead simple. It isn’t meant to be your main keyboard—in fact, there are no letters. Instead you toggle to KuaiBoard when you need to insert big chunks of text by hitting the Apple keyboard’s globe icon,” Stern reports. “Tap a button associated with text you’ve added—for me, work address, cellphone number, two email signatures and an email template I send frequently — and boom, it inserts it automatically.”
Read more in the full article here.
If the third-party keyboards aren’t allowed to use the audio input then I’m not interested.
I have tried a couple but I agree about dictation. I use that for 80% of the time.
Off subject a bit but has anyone else noticed that the iPhone 6 screens do not smudge. Ten days the wife and I have been using them and they are as pristine as when we unboxed them. Really. My 5S looked like a grease monkey was using it most of the time. I think it is a feature but do not see anything from Apple or anywhere else. Is it just ours?
Mine was pretty damn clean also.
Picked up a Tough Armor glass shield for it, which is also smudge free..
As far as the keyboards go.. not going to get one. Stock keyboard works perfect for me, and as it’s been pointed out.. the 3rd party keyboards can’t have access to certain things that the stock keyboard can.
Dictation.. been using it more and more, along with a few voice texts just cause I can.
Also, the keyboard apps capture what you type and send it ALL to the developers.
I’ll stick with the built in.
Do you have anything to back that up? I seriously doubt that any program that did that would be allowed in the App Store.
Any developers out there that can say yea or nay?
http://www.maclife.com/article/features/ultimate-guide-ios-8-iphone-keyboards-swiftkey
As has been pointed out multiple times…….. EVERY keyboard needs full access.
Not saying that they *do* see all the data… but then *can*
Thanks, that’s surprising. Now I just want to download one, not given full access and see what happens.:-)
Not True
Your own link states that all keyboard extensions WANT full access, but MOST will work without it.
Reading comprehension. you failed that class.
“If you choose not to enable Full Access, most of these keyboards will still work, they’ll just be missing some key features”
“Many features of these keyboards have a legitimate need for full access, such as loading language packs or learning how you write to provide better predictive text results”
yeah, you can say no.. and you can also have a gimped keyboard. the keyboard NEEDS full access to work properly.
Translation keyboard… that can’t translate.
Swiftkey for example
https://iossupport.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/articles/201466641-Why-does-SwiftKey-need-Full-Access-
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/24/ios-8-keyboards-full-access-and-user-privacy/?amp&&
Disable full access… You have a 2nd keyboard that functions exactly like the stock keyboard.. wait, less cause Autocorrect won’t work. oh and dictation.. list goes on.
Good acknowledgement of your mistake. Way to go.
You made a simple clear statement which was wrong: “EVERY keyboard needs full access.”
Many of these keyboards accomplish real tasks without such access. They may benefit from full access but it’s not required as your statement implied.
Try something like “Oh right, my mistake”
Nope. Cause if you want a “skin” for the stock keyboard… then yes, you’d be correct.
“Work” yes EVERY keyboard will “work” without full access, with less features than the stock keyboard… Which begs the question.. why get another keyboard?
If you are replacing the stock keyboard for ANY other reason than to change the color/look.. you’d need full access. (Or it will become just a skin, you should read the links. Everything that Swiftkey is famous for… needs full access to be used.)
BTW, the VERY SAME access is needed on Android for the keyboards. it’s nothing new, except now it’s on iOS.
false. every keyboard does not need full access.
The auto-capitalisation of words feature in Pages is a real pain. I seem to be spending all my time returning what I originally intended to be lower case back into lower case. And I can’t find the setting to turn this horrible and annoying time wasting feature off, either. 😡
Apple iOS8 is still in development phase. What a fuck apple, are you lowerng the bar? Software is undeveloped….. Put some mony in developers …. FU apple
Thanks for the vote of confidence Fandroid Fragmendroider. Perhaps you best stick with your rapidly fading choice of platform where you will be assured of never having to update, nor will one likely ever be offered.
Thanks for saving me the trouble and appropriately choosing a title for your username
I insert LONG phrases already with built-in keyboard shortcuts already. I just press 2-3 keys and it fills in.
Am I missing something?
Why pay for a separate key does that I need to launch Everytime?