Google Debuts 'Gboard' Keyboard for iPhone With Built-In Search Functionality

[avanpelt]

Like it. Try it. Disable it. This seems to be a pattern with me.

Agreed. iOS's support of third-party keyboards really is awful. For starters, dictation goes away with every third-party keyboard. Secondly, I've found every keyboard that I've used other than the stock keyboard to be slow at times, or completely unresponsive at other times.

I have a hard time believing that every third-party keyboard maker is that sloppy with their development and testing. I have to assume that Apple has just limited the tools that developers are given in order to develop third-party keyboards...which is a real shame.

 

[Aston441]

Agreed. iOS's support of third-party keyboards really is awful. For starters, dictation goes away with every third-party keyboard. Secondly, I've found every keyboard other than the stock keyboard to be slow at times, or completely unresponsive at other times.

I have a hard time believing that every third-party keyboard maker is that sloppy with their development and testing. I have to assume that Apple has just limited the tools that developers are given in order to develop third-party keyboards...which is a real shame.

Yes Apple disallows dictation. Probably part of not allowing Siri to be touched by anyone but Apple. I am so sick of Apple's BS.

 

[jonnysods]

Danger Will Robinson, Danger!

 

[macintoshmac]

This is about how we can target you, because we (and our partners) know everything about you. We know where you live, we know your income level, we know your relationships, your favorite sports teams, your political preferences. We know when you go to work, and where you work. We can target an event to start for you when we know you have a long weekend coming up. We own you.

The above is what the article says.

This is what I said: Oh yes, I knew we are all just customers in one way or the other, but the creepy extent is creeping.

English is not my native, but I think you're plain wrong to assume I didn't read it. That extent to which they know about us, is creeping. Is what I said. Where is the confusion? Where are you accusing me of being lazy to not read it?

For the record, I am not saying Apple is the king and Tim Cook is the Elf Lord. If you felt I was insinuating.

 

[JackieInCo]

Why on earth would you use Google's crappy search engine?

DuckDuckGo.com

There's no going back. (If that url is too long, you can also use ddg.gg. It's one of the search engines you can pick from in Safari and IE. It's the default in Firefox. Adding it to Chrome takes ~60 seconds... not quite as easy as just picking it from a dropdown in Safari and IE, but you just visit DuckDuckGo.com with Chrome and they'll have directions for how to make it your search engine in Chrome.)

Tried DuckDuck but went right back to Google. It does everything I need.

 

[macintoshmac]

And dear apolloa, you failed to mention that the article also says about Facebook and social media integrations. And you obviously failed to read that I don't use Facebook or connect my games or any app to Facebook. If an app requires Facebook, it gets uninstalled.

In this scenario, what am I sharing of myself with these companies? Next time, before throwing rubbish accusations on others directly, get your own homework done right.

 

[baller1308]

I can't seem to paste the card into the message.

 

[Thierry ba]

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[macintoshmac]

I can't seem to paste the card into the message.

I'm not sure because it isn't available in India yet for me to try it, but try dragging?

 

[bushido]

I like that the keyboard looks like there default one

 

[Thierry ba]

Gboard: conveniency at the expense of privacy. I'll pass.

I won't. Enjoy your privacy.

 

[cambookpro]

Anybody know when/if this is coming to the UK?

 

[applesith]

This is awesome. I hope Apple rips it off for the stock keyboard.

 

[MNR]

Is it just me that can't find any language settings, or you really just can use it in english?

I'm also looking to be able to switch between 2 different languages ... In the stock iOS keyboard, you click on the little planet but it seems doing this on the GBoard keyboard send you to the stock again ...
If they could implement that, I will adopt it definitively.

 

[brunosh]

I'm also looking to be able to switch between 2 different languages ... In the stock iOS keyboard, you click on the little planet but it seems doing this on the GBoard keyboard send you to the stock again ...
If they could implement that, I will adopt it definitively.

I liked it too! But my first language is portuguese, so not so useful :/

 

[acctman]

next update you'll have google ads related to text and email convos you had on your IOS device.

 

[tennisproha]

So is it a 3rd party keyboard or a keyboard extension of sorts for the stock iOS keyboard?

 

[randomguyishere]

Good keyboard, good features. But why doesn't it include support for 3D Touch on my iPhone 6s? I just want to be able to use the keyboard as a curser like we can with the stock iOS keyboard...

 

[kd8nzg]

I might try it out on my iPhone. Did you test it on your iPhone, or on your Air 2?

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Wish this was true. I changed to DDG on both iOS and OS X. Unfortunately it just ... doesn't find what I'm looking for most of the time. I kept switching back to a Google search so often, I shrugged and just changed back.

Try using www.startpage.com it uses google's search results but it makes it look like the company, startpage, is searching it and not you.

 

[chugg]

Wow this is a great keyboard. Autocorrect is much better than Apple's and some truly useful features in it. Even un-correcting a word is smarter - just backspace and it un-corrects it and doesn't attempt to re-correct it over and over like Apple's keyboard. I think this is the first 3rd party keyboard I'll keep.

 

[haruhiko]

Good keyboard, good features. But why doesn't it include support for 3D Touch on my iPhone 6s? I just want to be able to use the keyboard as a curser like we can with the stock iOS keyboard...

Obviously this function is not available to all third party keyboards.
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So is it a 3rd party keyboard or a keyboard extension of sorts for the stock iOS keyboard?

a third party keyboard.

 

[FSMBP]

Was going to try it out, until the narrator in the video pronounced GIF's the wrong way.

Actually, it looks really useful (security/tracking concerns aside).

One of my biggest pet peeve's in tech. Even after the creator of GIFs stated how to pronounce, people still say it wrong (Apple's latest iPhone commercials and now Google).

 

[Bubba Satori]

"Voilà, Here is the Google Keyboard for the iOS. This is for sure going to make our jobs of data-mining way easier than we thought. We now know each and every word you type and search for. No Escaping guys. "

Apparently the reality distortion field uses a tinfoil antenna.

 

[H2SO4]

Surely the title should have been "Google debuts faster, easier way to mine your information and cash in!"
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Depends on what lengths you go to to keep your information private and confidential. Certainly there always has been and will be companies buying and selling user data. But giving Google direct access to everything you type? No thanks, they're bad enough as it is.

My point is that if anybody thinks that Apple are not buying data from companies like Google they are crazy. It’s great to have a front of not sharing your data while using shared data.
Apple will be conducting masses of market research and it isn’t just from their iTunes account holders. Yet everybody hates Google.

 

[TrueBlou]

My point is that if anybody thinks that Apple are not buying data from companies like Google they are crazy. It’s great to have a front of not sharing your data while using shared data.
Apple will be conducting masses of market research and it isn’t just from their iTunes account holders. Yet everybody hates Google.

I've never been under the impression that any company isn't buying user metrics from various sources. There is however a slight difference between buying information and mining it for profit.