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Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by embedding-shape on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:52AM (#46753699)
> Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least

Since some updates ago, my keyboard is still broken if I type too fast, and autocorrect been essentially broken for the same amount of time. Must be happening for ~years now, still waiting for a new update to finally fix it.

At least on Android you can change the keyboard to something else if you'd like, instead of being stuck with what your OS developer forces on you. Wish I had that option now.

Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by manuelabeledo on Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:18AM (#46753858)
Hasn’t happened to me, but I guess that you could always install a third party keyboard. Both Microsoft and Google have offerings in the App Store.
Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by BlaDeKke on Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:41AM (#46753994)
The keyboard can be changed in iOS.
Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by ikamm on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:23AM (#46754827)
I have been using SwiftKey keyboard on iOS exclusively since 2018 and have had very few issues compared to Android where it regularly crashed
Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by DiskoHexyl on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:39PM (#46757949)
A lot of the apps, not just the banking apps, but food delivery etc, restrict using alternative keyboards, leaving you with a default one, which is especially jarring for a multi-lingual countries where you typically need keyboards for English + language 2 and 3.

I had to give ap on a swiftkey iOS for that reason

Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by pvab3 on Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:45PM (#46760805)
iOS keyboards are hardly different from one another
Re:Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is comin... by Melatonic on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:58AM (#46762966)
If you turn off swipe or swift or whatever they call it the iOS default keyboard is much better