Leave a Review Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard
How to trust a keyboard that needs full accesa
It is quite creepy that I have to grant full access to Microsoft and Google to use their keyboards. Brilliant keyboard but I just do not trust them with everything that I type.ionmonkey
Frustrated
I like the look of this swype app and I like that it allows to have multiple languages with ease of transition directly on the same screen but it has quite a few flaws. If you want to swipe two letter word and the letters are close to each other, it won't swype. It's ability to predict your words is inconsistent. Short cuts to punctuation marks are practically none existent (unless I don't know them) I hate switching to the number keypad every time I want to use a symbol. The shortcuts they do have (to the right are a pain to use. With the previous app I used, each letter could be pressed for a second longer and it would instead display a corresponding symbol. For example hold g and you'd get a parentheses. Hold j and your get a colon, etc. Also the app would recognize when you'd swype names from your contacts and it allowed you to save words you want to app to recognize. I also don't know how to switch to the regular Apple keyboard from this apps keyboard. I love swyping but this app sometimes makes it frustrating to swype.Show lessTahl000
Bummer keyboard
I had a keyboard that swyped better than this one until it continuously froze. It guessed my words accurately and didn't change my typed words after a second time. This app is a let down, the amount of times I have to retype a word because it wants to supply a different word is ridiculous. I've had this keyboard for a few months because it's the only option aside from manually typing like everyone else, but it still feels like a waste of time. I give it two stars since it still cuts down the amount of time I could've spent putting in the text individually, but there have been a number of times that I spent more time trying to get this keyboard to work and I doubled the time that should've been non existent. Really disappointed. My expectations were too high, I guess because the other keyboard put in the word I needed and I didn't have to be so concise, on the other hand, when I am annoyingly concise with running my thumb across letters to be accurate, the keyboard doesn't pick up the word 🙄 this rating has a third of the original words, I had to delete the other two thirds and retype them. I continue to look for another keyboard that's accurate and efficient. If they update this one , that would be nice (:Show lesssizzlin'soap
Bad
do you really have to allow full access for this to work? Or does the swipe text just not work? Not very good either way. Just a worse keyboard.babs7749
Swif key
It's super fun you can customize and (more...)😛📱🅱️Alexa Yasmine
Sometimes works correctly
This app is great to be able to design your own keyboard and enjoy the swipe feature... when it wants to work! I tell my friends when they see my custom keyboard on my iPhone, with swipe, to download this application. But I won’t if it isn’t working correctly and will only cause others technological issues as well. I find myself C O N S T A N T L Y rebooting my phone or messing with the application itself to try to figure out why the swipe feature is in fact not working. Especially when I need it to work, trying to send something quickly and efficiently which is why I utilize this keyboard as a tool almost 24/7. The only thing is the mistakes with the functionality of the swipe keyboard itself is making me want to look into other options because the keyboard won’t work 50% of the time. I just rebooted my phone to fix the issue, and it lasted about 5 minutes, or a couple of texts to be accurate, and then the issue began again! If you could fix the bugs that would be great. Thank you! You will he keep me as a user and I will continue to promote this keyboard.Show lesssdewey99
Still needs a lot of work
I find it frustrating that this far into machine learning there doesn't seem to be a keyboard that allows for consistent, fast typing on a small (iPhone 5) screened touch device
Main problems that still cause me a lot of grief are replacing a word (correctly typed) with a similar word (presumably because I use it more) e.g at the moment it seems to be replacing 'food' with 'good' whenever I type it.
Sometimes incorrectly spelled words aren't corrected or are split into several small words or a much longer word, which seems silly as obviously if I didn't hit the spacebar twice then I wasn't intending to write three separate words, and if I tapped 5 letters I wasn't trying to write an 8 letter word
There doesn't seem to be much adaptation to learning acronyms or abbreviations (e.g. etc). Would think this would be quite easy to programme.
The swipe function is great for one handed typing, but other than this i'm not sure that this keyboard leads to less errors or faster overall composition than the stock iPhone keyboard. I certainly wouldn't pay for it at the moment. I long for the day when I can pay for something that will allow me to carry a small device on my pocket and write away without having to check every message for typos and stupid autocotrect errors.Show lessrichbrown22
Go back to combing typing & swiping for the same word.
I've been a devoted SwiftKey user for years. I even purchased themes to keep you going. I primarily love SwiftKey because I love to swipe without having to lift my finger up.
However it seems like SwiftKey changed the way that swiping works and it takes away some of what made SwiftKey better than Gboard. You see, I used to be able to enter a word by manually typing the first two letters of the word and then finished spelling the word by swiping the remaining letters. As long as I didn't hit the spacebar then it knew that I was still working on the same word. This made word prediction significantly more accurate. However, your new method removes the ability to start a word by typing and finish it by swiping. Instead, if I lift my finger up, it automatically considers that a new word. The end result is that I end up typing most words (to get the proper ending) instead of swiping. And that defeats the purpose of swiping all together.
Please strongly consider going back to the old way of swiping.Show lessAnchorman428
Please Add Long-Press Characters.
When using Swype you could access numbers and characters by long-pressing the on screen letters and it saved time because you didn't have to click the "123" button to access them. Would you please add this feature to the Swift Key keyboard please?
So, if I long-press on say the letter "x" it would input an exclamation point "!". To me that saves so much time instead of always having to click the button to access those characters. You could put all the numbers for long-press on the top letters and all the other characters everywhere else.
I really hope you'll consider my request please,thank you. It would save so much time and make typing with Swift Key so much faster in my opinion. Thank you again if you'll consider this request and hopefully implement into the keyboard. Or maybe it could be an option to turn on for users like myself who are used to it or find that they like and enjoy how much quicker it really is.
Also, when I go down a new line on my iPhone 8 plus, it doesn't pull up the screen, it keeps hiding what I'm tomb topping typing and I have to keep pushing the screen up on my own. Would you please fix the app so that i don't have to do this? It's very annoying that I cannot see what I'm typing until I thumb up the screen on my iPhone. Thank you and thanks for all the work and time put into this nice keyboard.Show lessJoshua D.
A giant step down
I give this three stars instead of just one because it is technically the best option at the moment. Previously, that would have been the now deprecated Word Flow (which I'm still using and writing this review on), which was a great keyboard that Microsoft chose to abandon (after putting in a ton of work on it I assume) in favor of buying and marketing an inferior existing product. Word Flow brought me reluctantly back to swipe-style keyboards because of its unmatched accuracy. I can practically randomly wiggle my finger around on the keyboard and it somehow knows what I'm trying to say. Swift key requires more time executing precise swipes and making corrections that it takes to just type in the standard Apple keyboard.
Yes, Swift Key a little more stable and maybe has a few features that people prefer but please, Microsoft, you own the algorithm from Word Flow that can make this keyboard great... Integrate that tech into Swift Key or give/sell it to a developer who will.Show lessLethalMartini
