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Julius Becker<p>Ich probiere derzeit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeliBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeliBoard</span></a> als Tastaturalternative zu <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swiftkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swiftkey</span></a> aus.<br>Mir fehlt momentan die Möglichkeit, nicht zum Deutschen gehörende Sonderzeichen einzugeben, etwa č oder ł. Jemand eine Idee, wie man die aktiviert?</p>
Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜<p><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <br>I bought a great <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/swiftkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swiftkey</span></a> keyboard for <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ipad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ipad</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> a few years back<br>Was bought by <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <br>Since then after about every update in ios it irradically switches of and on and tries to push <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> as well.</p>
Dr Pen<p>For Android users, you might want to test the Futo keyboard. Its nice to set up and use, and is very privacy focused. Good keyboards are hard to find in Android (imo), and Im very keen to dump Swiftkey asap. You can download Futo from Fdroid too. </p><p>Update: after some comments recommending Heliboard, I'm also recommending that, I've just tested it. Really good. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/swiftkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swiftkey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fdroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fdroid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FUTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FUTO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heliboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heliboard</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://keyboard.futo.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">keyboard.futo.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/helium314.keyboard/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">f-droid.org/en/packages/helium</span><span class="invisible">314.keyboard/</span></a></p>
Denis 🌏<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bodhipaksa</span></a></span> oh, I was going to look and see if Swiftkey was still available! That's what I used to use years ago (on Android). I had assumed Google bought them when they added swiping, but now I see... I guess Microsoft bought them?</p><p>It is in the app store but ugh, it seems to now be loaded up with AI crap?</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/swiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swiftKey</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/keyboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keyboards</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iphone</span></a></p>
Franz<p>Nutzt jemand von euch <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> als Tastatur auf <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>? Seit dem Umstieg auf ein neues Handy füllt sich die Seite der häufig benutzen Emoji nur noch halb und das Internet ist ratlos...</p>
Holly Becker<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that if I can't enter a vowel with a macron (like ū) in SwiftKey using a long press on a key, one way to work around that is to add Māori as a language, since it uses them, and voila, it's an option now!</p><p>Just having Japanese enabled wasn't enough, even though romaji uses them to make long vowels </p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a></p>
Aptivi<p>Avoid locking yourself out of your phone before installing One UI 7 if you're using SwiftKey!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Samsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Samsung</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galaxy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OneUI7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneUI7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeamGalaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamGalaxy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GalaxyAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GalaxyAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeamSamsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamSamsung</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechUpdates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechUpdates</span></a></p><p><a href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/dont-install-one-ui-7-before-switching-away-from-swiftkey/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2</span><span class="invisible">025/04/09/dont-install-one-ui-7-before-switching-away-from-swiftkey/</span></a></p>
Aptivi<p><strong>Don’t install One UI 7 before switching away from&nbsp;SwiftKey!</strong></p><p>If you’re using <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/swiftkey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SwiftKey</a> and you’re going to install One UI 7 on your phone as soon as it rolls out to your country, then… <strong>STOP!</strong></p><p>Why? Because once you install One UI 7 while using the SwiftKey keyboard, and you’ve set your phone to <strong>lock with a password</strong>, you will <strong>never</strong> be able to get back to your phone again. That’s due to the keyboard <a href="https://x.com/ShumbaGong/status/1904098236245369308" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">not showing the Enter button</a> because it’s hidden under the navigation bar. The blank areas in the navigation bar are untouchable, so this means that your phone will be rendered <strong>useless</strong> unless you either factory reset your device or try to <a href="https://www.sammyfans.com/2025/04/09/samsung-confirms-galaxy-s25-and-one-ui-7s-lock-screen-enter-bug-shares-workaround/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">perform a workaround</a>.</p><p>Microsoft has fixed the problem and released the new version of SwiftKey. This has affected all Galaxy S25 phones and any other phones that run One UI 7. Consider updating SwiftKey and switching to Samsung Keyboard before you initiate the update. After the update, switch back to SwiftKey after unlocking your phone.</p><p><span></span></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/android/" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/android-v/" target="_blank">#AndroidV</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/microsoft/" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/microsoft-swiftkey/" target="_blank">#MicrosoftSwiftKey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/one-ui/" target="_blank">#oneUi</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/one-ui-7/" target="_blank">#OneUI7</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/one-ui-7-0/" target="_blank">#OneUI70</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/samsung/" target="_blank">#Samsung</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/smartphone/" target="_blank">#smartphone</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/swiftkey/" target="_blank">#SwiftKey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/tech/" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/update/" target="_blank">#update</a></p>
emberquill :v_gf:<p>I really hung on to SwiftKey longer than I should have after Microsoft acquired it. It's just... It was such a good keyboard when I first installed it. Swipe typing, nice themes, seemingly perfect key layout (from my extremely subjective point of view), and a whole bunch of config options. It was great.</p><p>Too bad it's now infested with AI bullshit like everything else Microsoft produces, and yet somehow the word suggestions (the only feature that it would make sense to integrate with any form of AI) have gotten noticeably worse.</p><p>Switched to Heliboard for now as it seems like the best FOSS alternative that's still maintained, but it'll still take some time to get used to it since the layout is messing with my muscle memory and there's basically no way to make it look like the Swiftkey theme I had.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Heliboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heliboard</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a></p>
Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping<p>After a couple of months of working okay, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Swiftkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swiftkey</span></a> crapped its pants again, being flaky or not showing at all, only showing up after reboot. Now it refused to sync since last December and after uninstall/reinstall, it completely forgot all my settings and dictionaries, even when I was fully signed in and synced. </p><p>WTF Microsoft </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/bugmagnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bugmagnet</span></a></p>
Jiří Eischmann<p>The privacy feature I like best in <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a> is the ability to turn off the network access for a particular app. It's a mandatory permission in <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>, and simply taking it away would break a lot of apps. So instead, GrapheneOS just tells the app that the permission is granted, but the network isn't available.</p><p>I'm used to <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a>, but it makes me uncomfortable that the keyboard knows everything I type and has functions that call home. You can turn them off, but you never know. In GrapheneOS, you let it download dictionaries and kill the network access, then you know for sure.</p>
Lorry<p>Dear SwiftKey.</p><p>You and I have been together every day for about fifteen years now.</p><p>But sometimes I feel like you don't know me at all.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monogamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monogamy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vodka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vodka</span></a></p>
thefathippy<p>Years ago, I started using a cool keyboard app instead of OEM. It was really clever, learning from my common phrases and mistakes, &amp; predictions were sensible.</p><p>Then Microsoft bought it &amp; it enshittified to the extent that typos render predictions useless. I just typed inagine. I often hit n, not m. Was imagine offered as an option? Ahahaha. No. "In again" was, though... and "in ageing". Hi-contrast theme works...sometimes... </p><p>So... Any good Android learning <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> that isn't <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a>?</p>
Václav VESELÝ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@passbolt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>passbolt</span></a></span> oups no support with <a href="https://potla.ch/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a>. Anyway, thanks for the tip.</p>
Federico :manjaro: :mac:<p>Ho provato alternative <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> alla tastiera <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> per <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>, ma non riesco a trovarmici bene. Con la tastiera <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> sono molto più veloce a scrivere ed accurato, sia in italiano, ma soprattutto in inglese.</p>
Nino Kadic<p>Switched to iOS. I find it ironic that Microsoft makes the best keyboard for iPhones.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/swiftkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swiftkey</span></a></p>
Dunbar's Number<p>I don't think people realise just how shit their phone keyboards are. For years I was using <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/MinuumKeyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MinuumKeyboard</span></a> and it was a great experience. I didn't have to type precisely because the algorithm would use press position and the previous word to guess what I was trying to type.</p><p>Now I'm using <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/GBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GBoard</span></a> and it's stupid as hell. There's nothing smart about it. No <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> nothing. I know there's zealots that hate the idea of <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and by extension <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ML</span></a>. But bear in mind, all <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/Minuum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minuum</span></a> machine learning was done on-device.</p><p>Typing is so laborious now. It's slow and painful and I'm constantly forced to do what should be the job of the processor.</p><p>Honestly, keyboards were supposed to be the next frontier is tech warring but unfortunately the big bastards shut everyone else. I still lament the fact that <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> didn't even have the balls or foresight to give it a go. Imagine a well supported <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> that could sync your dictionary to your other devices via your own <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> server. Instead <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> gave us GBoard which doesn't even try and <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> have <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> which stopped trying when they bought it. Both are super happy to farm their users for <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> data though.</p><p>It's a damn shame.</p>
Daniel Reeders<p>I just looked at some alternatives to <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a>. <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Fleksy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fleksy</span></a> is allegedly fast and has nifty gestures BUT has some inbuilt crypto coin scheme which instantly rules that out for me.</p>
Daniel Reeders<p>I am going ten rounds by e-mail with Microsoft Support for <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/SwiftKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwiftKey</span></a> trying to raise the alarm about a recent-ish change where the keyboard app now autocorrects words that are spelt correctly to other words its prediction model deems more likely. </p><p>I am a Pisces and my birthday is not the 13th of 'match.' I am not trying to round you out about a new idea. </p><p>My most recent e-mail called out (gently) the support tech's obvious use of an LLM to write a placatory response.</p>
Anthony, of course<p>When I just tried to type "google" on my phone, my keyboard suggested that I might want to type "google-android-pixel-showcase-vulnerability"</p><p>Not once do I recall ever writing that before, so why is <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Swiftkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swiftkey</span></a> suggesting it? 🤷‍♂️</p>