is it me or i Type with no Mistakes with iPhone Keyboard then with Galaxy ?!?!!!!!

[anon67808]

For me, my stock Note 4 keyboard is not so good. I make way too many mistakes on it. My work iPhone 5, not so much. My Lumia 1520 backup phone, not so much.

 

[shaleem]

For me, Swiftkey is the way to go. I have no problems with it at all. It doesn't take long to get used to it, and once you do, you can really fly.

 

[delta7]

I use the iPhone keyboard the best and SwiftKey probably is second best to iPhone. Maybe I'm setting it up wrong but I'm better with the iPhone stock keyboard. I'm inching to try out a 6 plus and compare the two with typing tests. I've always had issues on android, I think k the iPhone just has better spacing which makes typing more accurate.

 

[UJ95x]

I use the iPhone keyboard the best and SwiftKey probably is second best to iPhone. Maybe I'm setting it up wrong but I'm better with the iPhone stock keyboard. I'm inching to try out a 6 plus and compare the two with typing tests. I've always had issues on android, I think k the iPhone just has better spacing which makes typing more accurate.

Hmm, for me it was the opposite. The keys are too close together to type comfortably, and the auto correct is pretty bad. Have you tried out Fleksy?

Sent from my Galaxy S4 running SlimLP 5.0.2

 

[George Davey]

Nobody has really addressed the issue brought to light here. Apple has a better keyboard algorithm that is able to not make as many mistakes when your finger hits more than one key at a time. It does not matter which Android keyboard you download, they do not have the same caliber algorithm and hence forth they are inferior to Apple. As a life long Android user I wish Google would just license the superior touch sense technology algorithm from Apple because Apple nailed it. You can download whatever keyboard you want for Android but my daughter's iPhone has better keyboard mishap correction than my Android and it does not matter which keyboard app I install.
So there is no real solution to this post. Apple has a better algorithm and Google won't license it. Eventually they may figure it out but I bet there is a patent or copyright protecting Apple's keyboard algorithm.

 

[natehoy]

Nobody has really addressed the issue brought to light here. Apple has a better keyboard algorithm that is able to not make as many mistakes when your finger hits more than one key at a time. It does not matter which Android keyboard you download, they do not have the same caliber algorithm and hence forth they are inferior to Apple. As a life long Android user I wish Google would just license the superior touch sense technology algorithm from Apple because Apple nailed it. You can download whatever keyboard you want for Android but my daughter's iPhone has better keyboard mishap correction than my Android and it does not matter which keyboard app I install.
So there is no real solution to this post. Apple has a better algorithm and Google won't license it. Eventually they may figure it out but I bet there is a patent or copyright protecting Apple's keyboard algorithm.

Unfortunately, the issue brought to light is probably not directly addressable, so the advice to "make the best of what we've got" is still useful to many even if it doesn't directly give a way to move the Apple keyboard experience to Android.

Apple is notorious for NOT licensing (or opening to other platforms at any price) anything they have a patent on that they feel gives them a competitive advantage, so their patent technology will remain theirs and theirs alone.

While nothing can match the Apple keyboard, I feel it's a fair answer to respond with keyboards that work well for individuals and encourage people to try out different ones. There are huge differences between keyboards in terms of their autocorrect capabilities and how aggressively they autocorrect.

GoogleBoard actually works better for me (subjectively, but isn't that what all "works better for me" comes down to in the end?) than my daughter's iPhone. Samsung's default keyboard, however, runs a really distant second to the iPhone for sure. The iPhone has one sweet, sweet keyboard.

It's free to try out a half dozen keyboards and a whole lot cheaper than a new phone and all new apps.

 

[Focus Rite]

it is incredible who many times i need to retype words with the Galaxy !!! seriously
i switch from iphone to galaxy like 3 month ago, couldn't be happier. but I've put up with this keyboard problems. i've never!! had so much typing mistakes with the galaxy like i never had with the iPhone!! and i tried to install bunch of different keyboard to give them a try but all the same! how can you explain that??!
i'm really thinking to switch back to iPhone just because of this bugy thing that i can't keep having no more....
i must say i tried to play with LG android phone (5.5 inch) and looks like there keyboard is quit fine... but never been able to install it to the note 4.....

what should i do?! is it just me or you'r having these issues too?
any other android phone you recommend before going back to iPhone?!

thanks for the help!!

Sorry to talk in here so many years after, but indeed Apple made the touchscreen tracking in conjunction with its software thing more natural and thus more accurate as opposed to what google did for the android phones. For Androids, google made it in such a way thay it only tracks the position of the first smallest part of the finger that touches it, for example when you hover your finger above letters and you barely touch a letter but it registers as you actually pressed it. With apple though, it's not the same way of tracking but instead they not only lower that sensitovoty bit the software of it is made in such way that it tracks the INTENDED direction of the line you are going from nd to a specific letter so when your thumb presses between two letters, ot will give priority to a letter your thumb pressure was going towards as opposed to android's initial press position. This is what makes typing on samsung inaccurate, and it has nothing to do with having to get used to any brand... It' just the fact that apple was way more innovative and still is regarding typing and finger tracking. You can't make it like typing on an iphone... even with an app you can't.
P.S. I had way too many errors to correct after typing this text above the post scriptum. On iPhone there would be no correction needed.