Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by jeroenhd on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:37AM (#35597784)

The predictive text combined with the predictive autocomplete are so good that they changed the way I type on my phone. I don't even need to hit the right letters anymore, the need for precisions has disappeared almost completely. This has massively sped up typing on my phone. There's also a wide variety of customisations (including an easy height slider and several input modes that you can adjust to any device) that many competing keyboards lack.

This is very obvious when I need to type on someone else's device or when I try other keyboards. They do similar things, each in their own way, but just don't do it quite so well as SwiftKey does it.

Since Microsoft bought the app I've stopped logging into it with an account (so reinstalls and new phones mean I need to retrain the keyboard) and have taken away the internet permission so it can't do any creepy stuff like send telemetry. Somehow Bing found itself into the keyboard, probably an automatic update I forgot to turn off in the Play store.

The addition of Bing is just one more sad step in the development of the app I probably use most on my phone. I switched to SwiftKey exactly because I didn't trust Google's Gboard and now all this Cortana 2.0 crap is making the keyboard just as bad as the one I dropped years ago.

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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by pmoriarty on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:38AM (#35597799)

I'm actually looking forward to trying out GPT4 through Bing... but wish I didn't have to sacrifice my privacy to do it.

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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by pmontra on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:31AM (#35598137)

If I have to enter passwords I use Keepass' keyboard, also because I store them in that password manager and its keyboard has one User and one Password key. I switch with a small button to the right of Android's back button.

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Re:Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey by Tistron on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:53AM (#35598662)

Curious about that. I don't exactly like Microsoft, but them buying it made me trust it more with my data than some random small company. I expect MS to have routines around data security and they they have very little incentive to use my data in illegal ways, eg try to sniff my passwords or something like that. So with MS owning it, I trust more that they don't store text written in password fields (and it never suggests any of my passwords) than if it's some small company that I've never heard of and making a keyboard without a clear way of monetizing it (though I'd absolutely pay quite a lot for SwiftKey).

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