Same here. Unfortunately, disabling the English keyboard seems to just mean I randomly get emoji instead of English, and also disables the ability to use the keyboard at all while the phone is locked. I think I'm just going to have to re-enable the English keyboard for now.
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Third party keyboard randomly reverts to default
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Same here. Unfortunately, disabling the English keyboard seems to just mean I randomly get emoji instead of English, and also disables the ability to use the keyboard at all while the phone is locked. I think I'm just going to have to re-enable the English keyboard for now.
This is why I don't think it worth the hassle messing with 3rd party keyboards. I'm gonna stick with default and leave it alone.
now i saw that ''bug'' or something else..tried everthing and nothing works..probably it's a bug of keyboards..
I'm coming to this conclusion as well. It should be great in time, but right now it's too buggy to be a time saver (I suspect an equal mix of Apple and third-party bugs.)
Agreed. I think it should be good to go by 8.1 which will probably drop in March. By then though, we half way to iOS 9..
I use Fleksy exclusively (aka only keyboard I have enabled) and it'll still randomly revert to the apple keyboard in apps such as messages. And then because I only have one keyboard, it's a crap shoot as to how to get back to Fleksy. Sometimes exiting the app from multitasking works, sometimes it doesn't. I love using Fleksy, but it's very difficult with all of these bugs.
I almost wonder if there is an activation timeout for third party keyboards. In other words, if a keyboard's process doesn't finish loading in X amount of time or doesn't respond right away, Apple loads the default instead of making you wait a long time or giving you a text field and no keyboard. It's just the type of thing I can see them doing. I've noticed the reversion to default most often occurs when I haven't used any keyboard in some time. Maybe the timeout is too low, or the current versions of third-party keyboards just aren't optimized enough.
It's a shame, as I have really taken to SwiftKey. Same layout as Apple's keyboard, but with drastically better suggestions. Suggestions also appear even when a text field (spotlight for instance) doesn't enable autocomplete (they just don't swap in unless you tap them.)
It's a shame, as I have really taken to SwiftKey. Same layout as Apple's keyboard, but with drastically better suggestions. Suggestions also appear even when a text field (spotlight for instance) doesn't enable autocomplete (they just don't swap in unless you tap them.)
Only having problems when I put in passwords with the keyboard being the original iOS keyboard. However I don't think I could ever now get rid of SwiftKey even for an annoying little design glitch. Though I wouldn't complain if they removed their logo from the space bar
One of things that I did to fix this, was deleting and re-installing the keyboard. Its working so far, but it never show up when I use quick reply.