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iOS 8 Keyboards Climb to Top of App Store Charts

I tested swype and I was pretty surprised how well it worked. But after a while I noticed that even though it recognised most of the words, it took me waaay longer to write a sentence than with the regular keyboard. The problem to me was that wrong inputs take longer to recognise and correct. Well, and it was just ~90% correct.
Maybe I need to exercise a bit. Although I don't really see the point of exercising something that worked just fine before. Whatever.
 
Yaboze said:
Non Apple keyboards don't seem to have a click sound. Anyone know how to get that back? It sounds strange, but it really helps me for some reason, lol.
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hmmm. I downloaded the minimum keyboard or whatever and it has sounds.
 
Swift key is super buggy so are the others I went back to the Apple keyboard cause they stopped coming up when they were supposed to
 
I use Swiftkey on my phone and it works well, but when I tried it on the iPad it was next to useless. Not much of an improvement (if any) over the stock keyboard.

Well, except for the fact Swiftkey know how to present a shift key that's consistent with the user expectations of the UI.
 
I downloaded one, tried it out, then switched back to the stock keyboard and erased the 3rd party one. I don't like the fact that they could be collecting my keystrokes..

These are at the top of the charts because of people like me. I think everyone just wants to know how they work.
 
Keyboards by default have no network access so unless you give it permissions to use the network it cannot do much of anything to steal what you’re typing.
 
I'd just like to see the return of a dark stock keyboard like they have toyed with in previous Dev versions of iOS but that has never made it to the GM. If anyone knows of or finds something like this let me know.
 
Anything thing that can record keystrokes is not going on my phone. I don't care if they don't do anything with with data or not...
 
OK, either I'm being dumb, or the keyboard implementation is being dumb... :(
I had assumed that once I'd chosen a 3rd-party keyboard and implemented it, then it would "stick", and it would come up again anytime the keyboard was called for.
However, whenever I change apps, or even if I go back to a previous app where it was previously working, the 3rd-party keyboard has disappeared and my iPhone has reverted to using the stock Apple keyboard.
I can easily get the 3-party one back again by pressing and holding on the globe icon, but the fact that it doesn't stick seems well odd to me.
Is it just a buggy implementation I have (I'm using SwiftKey), or is it *supposed* to work like this?
Either way, it's kinda annoying and unless it's fixed, I might as well stick with the standard Apple keyboard...
 
cwwilson said:
That's just ridiculous and borderline fear mongering. I've been using Swype, Swift Key and a number of other keyboards on Android for years and years and have had none of my credit card numbers or accounts compromised.

It doesn't store your passwords.
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Then people could argue that you're being arrogant. Does your experience equal to all users? There are legitimate concerns given the fact that the only way you'l really be able to utilise these keyboards is by giving access to internet and everything you type.
 
I used Flesky for around 5 minutes and found that when searching in the App Store it wouldn't type anything!
 
reden said:
Such a great feature, something I missed from Android. Too bad it logs all your keystrokes and even credit card numbers. That's the only thing that concerns me.
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Wrong, when installing a keyboard there is a prompt ( if the developer chooses ) for "Full Access". You can decline this and as long as you do not give a keyboard "Full Access" it cannot access the network or save/share your keystrokes even with the main application the keyboard extension was installed from.
 
mrbyu said:
Guys, are any of these 3rd party keyboards of some use for non-English text input? Because as far as I understand they are all about some kind of predictive input, which is unlikely to work in my language (namely Hungarian).
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Many do support other languages. Read the full descriptions from the developers sites, or on the app store descriptions.
 
BrettArchibald said:
OK, either I'm being dumb, or the keyboard implementation is being dumb... :(
I had assumed that once I'd chosen a 3rd-party keyboard and implemented it, then it would "stick", and it would come up again anytime the keyboard was called for.
However, whenever I change apps, or even if I go back to a previous app where it was previously working, the 3rd-party keyboard has disappeared and my iPhone has reverted to using the stock Apple keyboard.
I can easily get the 3-party one back again by pressing and holding on the globe icon, but the fact that it doesn't stick seems well odd to me.
Is it just a buggy implementation I have (I'm using SwiftKey), or is it *supposed* to work like this?
Either way, it's kinda annoying and unless it's fixed, I might as well stick with the standard Apple keyboard...
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Go to the keyboards in setting, click edit and move the 3rd party keyboard to the top so it always comes up first.
 
reden said:
Such a great feature, something I missed from Android. Too bad it logs all your keystrokes and even credit card numbers. That's the only thing that concerns me.
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Totally agree with you on this.. Looks cool but I saw that message and was like nope no thanks. App now deleted...
 
jtp098 said:
Totally agree with you on this.. Looks cool but I saw that message and was like nope no thanks. App now deleted...
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Once again misinformed. When you install a keyboard there is a "Full Access" prompt on some of them, these are ones where the developer would like "Full Access".

You choose whether or not to give a keyboard full access. Without full access the keyboard extension is 100% sandboxed and has no network access and cannot pass any data back to the application it comes from either or any other application for that matter.

https://developer.apple.com/library...eral/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html
 
they all are and feel like version 1.0. will wait a few updates before trying them again.
 
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