Leave a Review Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard
SwiftKey is a slow learner
I had Word Flow on my old phone and when that died, I had to find another swipe keyboard because apparently Word Flow isn't supported any longer (you could still use it if you'd already downloaded it though). I've been using SwiftKey for a few weeks now and it's so frustrating! You would think after that amount of time it would have 'learned' by now that I'm trying to type 'and,' not 'abs' or 'Ave,' or 'neighbor' instead of 'Bridgette' or 'beige.' Its predictive text capability is absolute garbage. A lot of the time it comes up with completely nonsensical words that I've never used and certainly aren't commonly used in wider social circles than mine. I tried to give it some time to see if it would 'remember' which words and phrases I use the most so its predictive text would become more accurate, but that hasn't been the case. I spend more time correcting its mistakes or just typing out individual letters (which obviously isn't the point of a swipe keyboard) than I do getting accurate swipes. I'll be looking for another keyboard and can't wait to stop using this one.Show lessexpressgoner0101
Picks up random words from surrounds
The latest weird glitch is that, if I am typing and there are people around me from other nationalities, suddenly my word suggestions as I type become something I've never typed but what they might? Name places become Asian or African, for instance.
This app has become glitchier as time has gone by. I read reviews and if they aren't good, I won't update - and haven't - so it's surprising that the problems others got after updating are now plaguing my keyboard. I disabled any way of updating unless manually but still these problems appear. The latest is that when I put in a question mark, the preceding word as well as the question mark deletes.
Fixing what isn't broken is rarely good... It causes unforeseen problems. Make this app good again please, even if you have to revert to what worked before.Show lessMickeyDii
Best alternative
This is the best alternative to the default iOS keyboard in my opinion. I picked this keyboard particularly for swipe functionality, GBoard being the other option. I find this one a lot more pleasing due to its simplicity. The default theme is clean and minimal, and I don't mind the SwiftKey logo being on the spacebar (although a premium option to remove it would be ideal). I do have one suggestion for the keyboard, an option to remove the globe/emoji button altogether or being replaced with something more useful and linking the emoji button on the bottom left to SwiftKey's implementation if possible. On my Xs, the default emoji button on the bottom left leaves SwiftKey's emoji button redundant. I can remove the system emoji keyboard but will be left with a huge space. Using SwiftKey with two emoji buttons at the moment. Thanks for the beautiful keyboard!Show lessl11arcangel
Suggestion
I really love this keyboard, it's so simple and easy to use. Just a suggestion though, could you make it so that instead of the number bar at the top, you have the numbers as alternative keys on the QWERTY line (top line)? It's just that the number bar makes the key board too tall. It'd be nice to be able to hold down the keys to type in alternative keys instead of toggling between the letters and symbols pages every time.Show lessCswp4
Fantastic app
Great, smooth, and very well designed, user friendly keyboard. My only problem is autocorrect, autocorrect is great with English but is awful with Arabic. It's always changing things that I typed correctly to weird unintelligible words that aren't even close to what I wanted to say so what I send ends up being gibberish. To be fair, fixing autocorrect for Arabic would be too much to ask because the lexicon is diverse and very regional; all I'm asking for is the ability to turn off autocorrect for a certain language by itslef. I can't give up the English autocorrect but I also can't live with the Arabic one...
I hope that option is not too difficult for the developers to add. I feel bad for giving the app 3 stars but having to manually re-correct two to three words of every sentence I type is quite annoying and I feel like 3 stars is the best way to get through the developers. Will update my review as soon as the option to turn off autocorrect for certain languages is added, I check for updates of this app very frequentlyShow lessAhi kdnzidbdiane
Almost perfect! 🙄
I moved to SwiftKey a few years back and when I first got it, I was well impressed. Yes there was the odd auto correct problem but it was minor and rare.
Unfortunately the developer seems to have done something which now means that there is massive auto correct issues. In some cases I'm spending longer correcting the errors than I would if I just typed the words normally. I'm about to ditch it and move to try Google's keyboard unless it's sorted.
"This is a pathway of text without me correcting anything just so you can see how much of it is actionable incorrect. This kind of error is becoming more and more common in my texting. I am sweeping at my normal speed so you can see this as a real test. Bloody typical, as soon as I start to try and prove the issue is boys making as many errors.!!"Show lessHumpingharry
Learn from Swype.
I was sad to let go of Swype because it is no longer maintained. SwiftKey is the best replacement I found, better than gboard in many respects, however I wish it was as good as Swype for glide typing. I suggest the developers learn from using Swype.
The most impactful improvement, for me, would be to allow deleting the entire last word using backspace, if done right after the glide stroke. This prevents me from wasting time deleting long words guessed incorrectly by SwiftKey. The next improvement is automatic insertion of a space after a comma or question mark. A more sophisticated improvement is smart insertion, where spacing is automatically adjusted when inserting new text in the middle of a sentence. Finally, I wish I could curate words I teach the keyboard, instead of hoping that some inefficient (insert your favorite strong word here) machine learning algorithm will figure out what I need.
Hoping to see these soon in a future update.Show lessicalc
Good App, But...
I like this app, I've had to, since the Swype Keyboard is done and dusted. The annoying thing with this app, is when you write a word in a photo to post on FB, you add a dot at the end, and the last letter disappears. Why does it do that? And I would like it if the app would show up emojis for every word you type, also if you press and hold a letter, the JavaScript on the next keyboard page, would show up automatically, instead of you manually having to go in there to type it yourself.Show lessMetalManiac72
Not perfect, but I'll never go back to the stock keyboard.
I've been using SwiftKey for about 3 years and have seen its ups and downs. It started out with occasional glitches that would cause the keyboard to close and swap back to the stock keyboard until I reopened whatever app I was using, but even then, the functionality was worth the minor inconvenience. Nowadays, it's 99% stable and its predictive engine knows me so well that I never want to go back to the stock keyboard. The designs look great (I've been using Shooting Stars for years now), the swipe typing is super efficient, and its subtle modification of my typing map makes my accuracy spot on whether I'm typing with one or two hands. The only remaining glitch is that sometimes, the text doesn't continue to scroll down, so I have to manually scroll down or at worst, switch keyboards and back, but the amount of time saved by its features makes it well worth it. Try it out for a week or two and you'll fall in love with it.Show lessSkler5467
Good, but missing One Key Feature
There is no doubt that SwiftKey is the best third party keyboard out there, especially for 'flow' typing. It's fairly accurate, very stable and well-supported. It does suffer however from its lack of one key feature: 'Arc Mode'.
Arc Mode was originally found on Microsoft's Word Flow keyboard but that was discontinued (boo!), then Microsoft bought SwiftKey (yay!) so there really is no excuse why this great ergonomic/speed feature hasn't been implemented in the years since...
When it does, this app will truly be 5 Stars!Show lessRCD___
