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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by OJFord on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:50AM (#47004073)
And to be clear 'do anything to fix them yourself' is as simple as install a third-party keyboard from the official Play Store, if you had such an issue as this with the default 'GBoard'.
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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by nozzlegear on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:11AM (#47004323)
You can install third-party keyboards on iOS too, I'm not sure why that's not considered an option in this case.
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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by stavros on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:16AM (#47004387)
I had an iPhone for three months until I switched back to Android because the keyboard was trash. The one thing I could not believe is how even SwiftKey on iOS is horrible, even though it's my default keyboard on Android, and I've been very happy with it.
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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by lysace on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:16AM (#47004389)
This comment explains why:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1l2gg3r/thirdparty_ios...

tl;dr: gatekeeping by Apple. Yes, it would probably be embarassing to Apple if someone built a way better touch keyboard.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by Someone1234 on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:13PM (#47005097)
That definitely explains SOME of why SwiftKey is worse on iOS, but it doesn't explain much of it. It just seems like Microsoft never got it to feature parity.
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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by DiskoHexyl on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:28PM (#47008689)
3rd party keyboards are frequently banned from some of the bank apps, delivery services and so on.

This way you have to keep the default one anyway and make even more typos when yet another app forces you to get back to Apple’s keyboard.

I can’t even search stuff in my local delivery with SwiftKey

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by nozzlegear on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:05PM (#47009620)
Oh that's really lame, I didn't know apps could do that.
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