r/gboard

I've been building an Android keyboard for quite a while and recently finished a major update focused on improving the actual typing experience rather than just adding more features.

Here's what changed:

• Typing feels much smoother and more responsive.
• Suggestions appear faster.
• The keyboard now learns from the words you choose.
• It predicts the next word based on your typing history.
• Learned words can be removed with a long press.
• The suggestion bar is cleaner with four better-spaced suggestions.
• Old/stale suggestions are cleared properly.
• Swipe (glide) typing has been added.
• Swipe typing is now much smarter, so short swipes are less likely to produce random incorrect words.

The goal is simple: make the keyboard faster, smarter, cleaner, and more personalized.

Before I continue investing time into new features, I'd really like to understand what Android users actually want.

I'd love to hear your thoughts:

1. Which keyboard do you currently use (Gboard, SwiftKey, Samsung Keyboard, etc.) and why?
2. What's the biggest thing that annoys you about your current keyboard?
3. Is there a feature you've always wished keyboards had?
4. Do you actually use AI features like grammar correction, rewriting, tone changes, translation, summaries, or smart replies? Which ones are genuinely useful, and which ones feel like marketing?
5. How important is privacy and on-device processing to you?
6. If a keyboard genuinely offered a noticeably better typing experience, smarter predictions, reliable swipe typing, useful AI tools, and respected your privacy, would you consider paying for it?
   • One-time purchase?
   • Subscription?
   • Or would you never pay for a keyboard?

I'm not trying to promote my app here or sell anything. I'm genuinely trying to understand what real users care about so I can build something people actually enjoy using.

I appreciate any honest feedback—even if it's critical. Thanks!

What has happened?! Running A17 beta 6 on P6P and lately after beta 3 it seems gboard vtt has been absolutely slow and horrible. Makes tons of mistakes more than before.

Anyone else experiencing similar things?

This has happened on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE, but not on my Moto G Stylus 2025.

The way the keyaboard used to work is that you'd select a text field, hit the microphone icon, the device would beep, and then you can start speaking and it would enter text directly into the text field.

Now, when you click the microphone button, it closes the keyboard and opens a spearate... app? Window? Overlay thing at the bottom of the screen that is full of wasted space. It has a big mic button, a back button, and a settings button.

So now for voice input, I have to click into a text field, the keyboard will open, click the mic button for voice input, click the OTHER mic button in the new window that opens, speak my message, hit the back button to get back to the regular keyboard, and then press enter to send my message.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to roll this back? Typing by hand on a tablet is so frustrating and I'm 100% down to switch keyboards if the old behaviour is no longer available.

Gboard voice typing still works fine for quick texts, but it gets frustrating when I try to dictate anything longer than a short reply. It cuts off mid-thought, misses punctuation, or turns a normal paragraph into something I have to spend too much time fixing.

Lately I’ve been using Voicedash for longer paragraphs, notes, drafts, and messages where I want the output to be more readable the first time. Then I still use Gboard for quick replies where convenience matters more than perfect cleanup.

That split has worked better for me than expecting the keyboard mic button to handle every kind of dictation. For longer thoughts, I care less about raw speed and more about whether the final text is actually usable.

Has anyone else moved to a separate voice-to-text app for longer dictation?

I've only bought Motorola phones and I've always just used the default keyboard and I press the microphone button to do speech to text a lot. The problem is it seems like in the last few months speech to text has gone way downhill like obviously it's not using AI to recommend or translate. And for example it will randomly capitalize words in the middle of a sentence. Like I just had to change the uppercase m in middle. I've tried installing a couple of other keyboard apps and basically have the same problem.

Could you please send me a screenshot of what the Gboard keyboard looks like on iOS 27? Thank you! 😊

Since the recent redesign the symbols were removed from my number row. I've tried digging through all the menus but can't figure out how to add them back.

Has anyone else figured out how to do this yet?

I have a Samsung S24

These glass.keyboards are.hell on old guys who have used computer.keyboards.for 43 years. Spelling mistakes galore. If I try to type a many paragraph reply I spend as much time correcting mistakes as I do typing.

So I decided I would take.advantage.of voice typing that is when The devil got into Gemini.

My first.ptoblem two mics appear one on keyboard.one on Gemini. If I said more than 4 words it would stop typing. Gemini claims conflict with Gemini mic and gboars Mike. There is no way to disconnect.geminis keyboard. After several different things Gemini claims corrupt Gemini or gboard moc settings. We fucked around a few minutes and I cleared cache in gboard and cleared dara. all hrll broke loose on gboard. I then said f gboard I will just go for Gemini to work finally jezebel gave up the ghost it worked. but I really wanted gboard to work. Gemini finally convinced me to uninstall gboard and reinstall gboard. Now samsung keyboard is default. I go to general management and their is one option samsung keyboard. It is as though samsung does not recognize gboard at.all. I am at wits end.