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I’m not an Apple fankid but the predictive keyboard and speech to text work wonderfully on my iPhone and I use Siri everyday with no problems. Google’s is probably better, but the different is not a meaningful one from what I can tell.

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As someone that bought the first Android phone and now has an iPhone...it is extremely noticeable how much better Android is on these fronts. But depending on the person that gap may not be important. For me, it is night and day. I felt Google had a long way to go on these fronts, so I was stunned at just how bad Apple was :(.

As someone who switched to iOS from android I’ll second this.

Also googles keyboard swipe is WAY better than the iOS implementation

Just switched from android to iOS and the major issue is it tries to correct things that are not real words. Somehow the android one was able to detect better when something is a typo of a common word or just something it doesn't know.

that's pretty much what I hear for anybody that has switched to iOS after a while on Android : they start by complaining about iOS's keyboard

If we're just going to give anecdotes, I'm usually an Apple fankid but I get super annoyed by autocorrect on iPhone. The Google one when I've used it does seem a lot better, and also faster.

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