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Yes I heard all of that, but I’ve also heard “autocorrect is better now” right before it got noticeably much worse years ago and just stayed that way.

I just wanted to hear from someone who has actually tried it and can confirm.
Along those same lines, I'd love to know whether anyone is seeing these improvements with swipe typing. My results were horrible (completely fails the ducking test, for instance) but I'm willing to try again if I was somehow missing something. At some point I know Gboard is going to die on me since they don't update it, but fortunately is still going strong with this beta.
 
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Along those same lines, I'd love to know whether anyone is seeing these improvements with swipe typing. My results were horrible (completely fails the ducking test, for instance) but I'm willing to try again if I was somehow missing something. At some point I know Gboard is going to die on me since they don't update it, but fortunately is still going strong with this beta.

Yeah swiping is worse than autocorrect. Comes up with the wildest, grammatically incorrect guesses.

I don’t trust Gboard, Google hasn’t updated it in over a year. Swiftkey is getting constant updates after Microsoft decided to keep it and shove Bing into it. Still better than the default keyboard at reasonable swipe typing.
 
Yeah swiping is worse than autocorrect. Comes up with the wildest, grammatically incorrect guesses.

I don’t trust Gboard, Google hasn’t updated it in over a year. Swiftkey is getting constant updates after Microsoft decided to keep it and shove Bing into it. Still better than the default keyboard at reasonable swipe typing.
I absolutely hear you on Gboard and I WANT to stick with Swiftkey but it is probably 50% less efficient than when I swipe with Gboard, which just gets me (your very concern, haha!). MS has been great about developing Swiftkey after it was looking like they'd abandon it but I curse it every time I try to use it. I gave it at least 2 months of constant usage too.

But, yeah, as between Swiftkey and the iOS keyboard, Swiftkey all day long.
 
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I absolutely hear you on Gboard and I WANT to stick with Swiftkey but it is probably 50% less efficient than when I swipe with Gboard, which just gets me (your very concern, haha!). MS has been great about developing Swiftkey after it was looking like they'd abandon it but I curse it every time I try to use it. I gave it at least 2 months of constant usage too.

But, yeah, as between Swiftkey and the iOS keyboard, Swiftkey all day long.

Third party keyboard support just seems to be kind of bad. Microsoft and Google are the only ones that even pretend to care enough anymore to even keep one listed in the App Store.

Swiftkey for example does not use the new system haptics for keypresses and instead uses its own which is too jarring and laggy.

I don’t know whose fault this is but they all seem laggy and janky. I doubt Apple has touched third party keyboard support since they first released it.

Just had a look in the app store. Every single other Google published app is updated weekly. Gboard is updated maybe once a year, and longer than that for the most recent.
 
I was wondering the same thing. Do people just not care there is a bright red badge that tells you to take care of something. I see it on youtuber's videos when it comes to email and they have like 10,000+ emails. I see a red badge and it actually bothers me so I take care of it right away. Maybe is an OCD thing, but that badge was there to make it so you don't forget that things exist.
My wife has 2,300+ unread emails. Every single one of her apps has red dots. It's well past the point that the notifications have any meaning.

As to the level of annoyance that causes me.... using the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator, I am an INTJ-A and my wife is an ESFP-T - the exact opposite personality type, and coupled with her ADHD, it's challenging 😂
 
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Are the people who use voicemail also still using fax machines? I haven’t used or left a voicemail for at least a decade and nor has anyone I know!
The business world most definitely uses VM worldwide. I'm an Operations Manager for a busy emergency service in Australia. I make/ receive approx 150 calls per 12hr shift. I am often on a call when others attempt to call me. VM is crucial as most of those callers have urgent/ time sensitive enquiries.

In other cases, I screen some calls by letting them go to VM whilst I am dealing with something urgent; the live transcription feature is going to be extremely useful for this.

The average joe on the street - not so much.
 
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But I'm going to stick with Google Voice for my Voicemail.
Am I missing something, how do you set Google Voice to be your Voicemail? I call forward to a GV number when I’m abroad primarily using a different sim, (save me with 2FA on almost everything). However I’m not sure I understand how you stick with GV as your voicemail?

Thanks in advance!
 
Am I missing something, how do you set Google Voice to be your Voicemail? I call forward to a GV number when I’m abroad primarily using a different sim, (save me with 2FA on almost everything). However I’m not sure I understand how you stick with GV as your voicemail?

Thanks in advance!

You set it up online (Google voice page) and/or within the app. I've set it up years ago so I forgot the details. But I do remember Google gave step by step instructions, which was pretty short and easy.
 
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Improved autocorrect only for iPhone 12 and newer. Because if you don’t have the latest and greatest you deserve to be tortured by a broken autocorrect mechanism.
it’s not a sales based cut-off, it’s due to the limits of the ML hardware in the 11. From 11 to 12 there’s a huge increase in that area, and the improved autocorrect leans heavily on the ML aspect to optimise the phone’s power use & battery life.
 
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it’s not a sales based cut-off, it’s due to the limits of the ML hardware in the 11. From 11 to 12 there’s a huge increase in that area, and the improved autocorrect leans heavily on the ML aspect to optimise the phone’s power use & battery life.
It’s autocorrect! Something that exists since at least the 90’s. And the current implementation in iOS is worse than what we had back then when they probably only had very long lists of words and rudimentary pattern matching.

There is zero reason to attribute this to hardware limitations.
 
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