There are many bad stereotypes about Android, and Samsung isn’t helping by shipping such a bad keyboard to millions of Android users.
Someone has never used an iPhone keyboard.
My last phone was an iPhone 13. One of the reasons I wanted to switch was because of how bad the keyboard was. Switching to gboard on iOS doesn’t really help. It’s a reskinned iOS keyboard so there’s latency and lag issues.
I bought one and used it for 3 months and then had to ditch it. The keyboard was a big reason. So bad. Unbelievable that they haven’t fixed it…
I kept mine for 4 years and honestly enjoyed it with the exception of the keyboard, the lack of FOSS apps, and the way the filesystem works. Switching to gboard afterwards and making the keys even bigger was amazing on an android.
i recently went from an iPhone 12 Pro to a Fairphone 6, because reasons. However, good god… The iphone keyboard is atrocious. For anything other than English, it’s like Apple think languages don’t have words in them.
Worst experience I’ve ever had with a soft keyboard was iphone’s. Never again.
Edit: words.
It’s worse in the States where people seem to think that Samsung = Android.
If you’re using a default keyboard on almost any mobile device you’re only hurting yourself. The Google one is annoyingly good, but every other keyboard I’ve encountered from mobile manufacturers (including Apple) is just terrible.
GBoard is so good, I have tried others but nothing comes close.
I stopped using Samsung many years ago because despite them being great at hardware, they suck at software.
I had to send 3 phones in a row back to them because apparently they can’t even plug the screen into the motherboard properly. That’s why I gave up on them.
The Samsung keyboard is bad? I remember when it had a number row and we were all just like “whoa, this is what we asked for.” I just use Gboard on mine (S10). If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Google’s Emoji Kitchen feature has me locked in to Gboard unfortunately
…kitchen?
Nani???
To be fair, the Emoji Kitchen is pretty cool, Samsung’s combined emoji feature isn’t bad…Not as creative though as it could be, it’s something they need to work on in order to foster better competition.
I don’t think the default keyboard is all that bad after using the Apple default keyboard for over a year! I honestly find the default Samsung keyboard to be more accurate with autocorrect choices and spellings. I just hate the fact their LLM button cannot be removed from the keyboard layout, as all other buttons are editable.
I ended up using Typewise which is a fairly competent keyboard that you can set to be offline or without the smelly OpenAI integration (I missed that detail about them).
