Gboard testing circle and pill-shaped keys on Android
Gboard testing circle and pill-shaped keys on Android
The aesthetic tweaks to Gboard for Android continue with Google introducing circle keys for some beta testers today.
How innovative!
If they could just stop autocorrecting correctly spelled words to other words I did not intend, that would be great. Had to turn off the whole dang feature because it behaves so poorly.
My favorite is when it autocorrects to the grammatically incorrect version of a word, then underlines it blue with the grammatically correct version!
Not exactly what happened in this screenshot, but another similar issue:
Haaaahaha classic. Awful, but classic.
If they could stop capitalizing every word that could even remotely be a name, that'd be swell. It capitalizes shit like "mark" in the middle of a sentence, for example. So often. And many, many other words, too. It's maddening!
I switched to FUTO, and it does the same thing since it's based on the same core code. FUTO has pretty good on-device speech-to-text which is nice.
However, FUTO is much worse at detecting the accidental press of "n" instead of spacebar. Gboard usually figures it out. FUTO usually corrects it to random words. Or not at all.
The N thing gets me too - it seems to be within the last couple years that it's been an issue for me. I just chalked it up to the ergonomics of big phones, but now I'm wondering if there might be a software component. Like I don't remember it being a problem at all in the past, but now I gotta be super careful with my typing to notndonthisnallnthentime
We're living in the future.