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I've recently switched to iPhone and this thread is so comforting. My friends thought I was insane when I told them that typing on Android (Samsung or Google keyboard) is much more accurate, fast and way less prone to errors (using autocorrect) than on an iPhone. And that's not even counting swipe mode! The difference is huge.

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Nothing beats the flow keyboard on the old windows phone. That was was the peak of typing on a phone.

I still much prefer any keyboard over Samsungs tho. The Samsung default keyboard is the worst I’ve used.

Just checked a short video of Word Flow. Isn't it the same as Gboard or Microsoft Swiftkey?

I don't know why, but with Word Flow you could train it, teach it words, including swear words.

GBoard / Swiftkey does its darnest to ensure that it will never select a swear word and always pick 'duck' but give me an option for 'fuck'.

Flow you didn't need to be accurate, you could be 'close enough' and it figured out the word you wanted based on what you were writing. GBoard/Swiftkey get it wrong more often than I like.

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