The best Mobile Keyboard has the biggest Annoying Feature.
Tags: Microsoft, Swiftkey, Software Development, Keyboard, Mobile

The best Mobile Keyboard has the biggest Annoying Feature. bulu Follow Jun 7 · 3 min read

Swift key keyboard from Microsoft

I have been a very early adopter of Swift Key keyboard. One of the best keyboard out there before google and everybody started copying it in every way.

It is still the best and the far much better than all mobile keyboards out there.

But there is this 1 features that is annoyingly bad and is now becoming more and more prominent disturbing in my daily use. Instead of making me more productive and more faster in typing. It has become more of a blocker and lately because of this I have started switching my keyboard from Swift Key to Gboard very often. Gboard has become much better and is par with Swift key in every manner and not only that it has a very good Language interpreter on the keyboard. The language interpreter on the Gboard keyboard types my local language Gujarati and types it perfectly with little correction. Also the correction feature for local language on Gboard are much nicer than the Swift key keyboard.

Swift Key being the pioneer on the mobile keyboard market need to get over this one stopper feature for users like me. Let me explain.

I use mostly English keyboard for my document or excel sheet or other email and other work on mobile. I use the English to Guajarati phonetic keyboard for typing Guajarati my local language in WhatsApp and other messenger when I am talking to friends and family.

Now lets understand the problem in the above scenario. When we install additional keyboard other than English in SwiftKey software. Swift key makes the keyboard by default en/gu. Means it interprets English I type as english and gujarati and will actively keep on changing the words as it feels necessary. It likes using whatever AI or mechanism it uses. The problem is I don’t need to type gujarati when I am writing my email. I just need English. There is no way to just have the English keyboard other than going to setting and disabling Gujarati Keyboard every time. Thank god I have started using Gboard. Gboard allows me to select exactly what keyboard I will prefer in certain scenario and let me just use that. Swift Key does not support this feature. The programmer at Swift key does not realize this issue because they may not be using multi language may be. Because other wise this bug or work stop annoying feature should be on top of the list for the company to be fixed.

Or maybe simply at Microsoft, everybody likes ditching their company product like Nokia, Windows, Surface and prefer to use iPad, iPhone and Gboard probably.

This is a serious issue and a show stopper for me, the way the swiftkey software works. I hope Microsoft and Swiftkey fix this or else I have started using Gboard and soon I may forget to use Swiftkey completely.

Lately I have realized it is better to be fan boy of Google or Apple for at least they will keep their product working in best way for their user and not kill their own product for a competition. This company do actually care of consumer side of the user other than Enterprise like Microsoft. I have hanged to many of MS product for too long and invested them to realize that company not care for SME and Consumer. Slowly I am somehow moving away from Microsoft.