Leave a Review Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard
The voice to text feature has been clunky at best and terrible at worst.
I'm not sure what happened in the most recent update, but when it comes to using the voice to text feature on the keypad. Is miss acknowledging my words. It is placing words that I do not even say into sentences that I do not even construct. It is frustrating because I miss I have to either. And Annunciate my words very carefully. Speak slowly or type the sentence out by hand.
This is a beloved feature that I have, and it's unfortunate that has succumb to whatever external factors that out of my control.
Please improve your algorithms, your systems and your back end engineering in order to get the voice to text feature to identify my voice properly.Show lessGeneralKyojin
Need predictive engine and swipe prediction and accuracy update
Needs an update to the machine learning algorithms to optimize the space bar triggered predictions in a sentence, the "recognized/remembered word" pattern used by the predictive algorithmic engine and swipe prediction and choice word accuracy update. The Swiping prediction accuracy targets and places words that have not been swiped across at all as its auto imputed at the end of swiped or even typed word. But also, the auto-completion of the short hand typing and AI's choices of using the correct word via the space bar "finish my word prediction" or the proper word being ignored completely. These issues have not been addressed in totality and the obvious wording that is generated in all methods have severely degraded and at times spell out completely wrong words with letters you didn't come close to Swiping across. This causes all kinds of mistakes in texts and emails and social media that look almost juvenile. Please just update that at minimum of nothing else.Show lessDre Fessha Fresh
Developer Response
Hello there. Thank you for your feedback. Sorry to hear you’re experiencing issues with SwiftKey. Could you kindly send a video file at https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/requests/new so that we can investigate further?Absolutely destroyed a good thing!
I've been using SwiftKey for years! Literally! Up until Microsoft bought it out, I have seen a major decline in it's ability to help me with typing. I don't know what has happened lately, but the slide to the right shortcut, is an utter hindrance to using the keyboard for me. Being visually disabled, the speech and large key form factor has helped me no end. But recently, the Bing icon and the inability to switch off the slide feature on the word bar, has made it near impossible to use SwiftKey now. I will return it to five stars if this God awful feature is removed in the next update.
(UPDATE). The update has added the ability to customise and switch off the toolbar. Thank you! It is now usable again 🙂Show lessAPEXnow
Not as good as it used to be
I wanted to love the keyboard but it's just not as good as I remember. The auto correct is not great and is annoyingly percistant. It will correct a word after a comma, and then if it corrects a word incorrectly, you go back and fix the word, but after you tyle the comma again it forgets you just fixed the word and incorrectly corrects it again and again. When using the swipe keyboard it's annoying that it adds the space immediately after you type a word, and if you swipe the wrong word, you have to backspace through every letter of the word instead of pressing the backspace button once to get rid of the entire word and swipe again. Completely ruins the flow. And because it inputs a space after you swipe, the word suggestions only suggest the next word instead of suggesting possible corrections for a word you swiped incorrectly. Also I don't know why but I somehow miss letters on the top of the keyboard all the time and it messes up my words, I think it's because they keyboard thinks I'm too close to the word suggestion bar.Show lessSddggh
Developer Response
Hello there. Thank you for your feedback. Sorry to hear you’re experiencing issues with SwiftKey. Could you kindly send a video file at https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/requests/new so that we can investigate further?HUGE potential to be THE keyboard of choice for everyone
Integrated with Bing's relationship with ChatGPT, this keyboard has incredible potential! Unfortunately, right now, its swiping and dictation technologies are terribly and painfully inaccurate, even when swiping slowly with purposeful pauses on the keys you want it to use. You must have the ability to be patient in its learning curve and trust that the Microsoft team wants to get it right.
They have yet to harness the power of their AI with the swiping and dictating. Once they wake up to that power to have AI look at the context of each word in a sentence and/or paragraph and get the words, spelling, grammar, and punctuation correct... wow, there won't be a keyboard that can touch it. That's what I'm going for.
In the meantime, I'm pushing forward with the huge productivity losses I'm currently experiencing - it's painful. This message has taken 15 minutes to write due to all the frustrating errors it's making. Keyboard swiping has always been somewhat inaccurate because it places nonsensical words in place of what you really intended and autocorrect has a bad reputation for changing the words you WANTED after you have moved onto a few words after the fact. AI can fix that if Microsoft hasn't already realized that fact.Show lessCoveyite
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for your feedback. Sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your predictions. Please try these troubleshooting steps here https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001656365 to see if this solves the issue for you.Long Time User, Mostly Good
They fixed it ! Microsoft did the usual “let’s see how much uproar this causes” and then when it was more than they wanted - the reverted the “permanent bing icon” feature. Now, you can hide the button in settings. Nice. It’s back to being 100 times better than the Stock iOS keyboard (come on, Apple…) . OLD REVIEW: I’ve used Swiftkey as long as I can remember, instead of the stock apple keyboard. That all ended today - when I saw the ugly and major privacy-concerning “Bing” button that is permanently attached to the keyboard in a prominent location. That’s a deal breaker for me. I like search and AI as much as anyone, and I understand the hooplah around ChatGPT and Bing, but the minute Microsoft and Swiftkey even HINT that my personal typings are even CLOSE to a new and groundbreaking (see “risky”) AI search platform - that’s a hard dealbreaker for me. I uninstalled Swiftkey within 30 minutes of seeing the new “Bing” button and seeing there was no way to turn it off. Goodbye Swiftkey, thanks for the memories. Shame Bing and ChatGPT are cosying up to user’s personal data.Show lessKevin 72638393
Completely Ruined!
Been using this app since way before Microsoft bought it. And I didn't even mind the little label on the space key that says "Microsoft SwiftKey". But the new toolbar is horrific. First there is an ugly square button on the left (btw... it doesn't even match any of the keyboard themes) for Bing. Bing. Really? The one search engine that no one likes. And also there is no way to remove the button or even allow you to change it to a real search engine. The center of the toolbar now has a border which is ugly and they added an icon menu on the right that doesn't even do everything the original toolbar could do and now I have to press another button. Stop forcing Bing on people and don't fix what isn't broke. I'm praying this is just a nightmare and that everything will go back to normal by the next update or I'm shopping for a new keyboard. Addendum… You made the button a little more theme-friendly, but I still don't want it. And if you read EVERY other review since you added it, I am clearly not alone. Nobody wants Bing and NO ONE wants to be forced into it. Everyone has their preferred search engine. This is also why so many people are switching to Mac. No one wants to be forced into anything. This is wrong! Fix it!
Update:
Increasing to 3 stars as they at least have an option to remove that dumb button to that search engine that no one likes. But stop making changes now! Just fix the bugs and be done with it.Show lessScottie NH
Developer Response
Hello there. Thank you for your feedback. Sorry to hear you’re experiencing issues with SwiftKey. Please update your SwiftKey app to the latest version (3.0.4), and you can now disable the Bing icon on the toolbar. Please open: Microsoft SwiftKey app on your device > Tap 'Settings' > Disable > Toggle off 'Always Show Bing Hub Icon'Good keyboard, but the latest update added so much unwanted bloat.
Hey Microsoft, I’m not interested in having Bing in my keyboard. I’m sure it’s cool for the people who want it, but there is no option to turn it off. It makes the keyboard so tall it almost covers half my screen. Why do I need to take photos or chat to Bing from in my keyboard? I just want my keyboard to be a keyboard and nothing else. Please add an option to turn it off. Cheers.Show lessCassian McMillan
Bing icon is not able to be disabled
This keyboard is amazing, and if the bing icon is able to be removed i will change this to 4 stars. I have used it for years and i love how it knows my typing habits and rearanges keys in the background to lessen typos. Its also highly customizable and you can customize a lot about it, with the exception of the bing icon, which currently cannot be disabled, and considering how useless bing is, this icon is similarily useless and feels pushy.Show lessF0x_trot
Microsoft is slowly turning ruining this app
They added a stupid Bing shortcut on it that cannot be disabled.Max5433345788
