Is this how most people type on mobile these days, drawing lines all over a keyboard instead of tapping the individual keys? I’ve never had an iPhone so I don’t even know if they can do this natively, but I know you can switch keyboards at least, so it should still be an option if not.

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      Thanks for linking! Currently using OpenBoard to get away from Swiftkey’s privacy issues, but OpenBoard’s lack of swipe has been a hard adjustment. FlorisBoard is en route to swipe tho it’s still very much in beta (but feels like alpha with the current implementation)

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        I’m not optimistic about Floris. A while ago they’ve made the decision to completely rewrite everything - a common occurrence among small-time FOSS projects, and almost always results in the project completely dying (or in a “better” case scenario, coming out of the ordeal as only a shell of its former self). Floris Board… Has not had any receipt in a while.

        But fortunately with this fork of OB existing, there isn’t much need for it anymore. It would be nice to have a selection of modern FOSS keyboards, but, ah well.

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      I’ve swiped since the early days of Swype. This forked version of OB let’s you swipe only on the English layout. Swipe doesn’t work for the other two languages I use. And English isn’t my main one. Don’t see much development for the keyboard either, so I’ll probably have to wait a long time to use it as a daily driver. So, sadly I’m stuck with GB for now…

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        You can try AnySoftKeyboard or FlorisBoard, but both are more experimental than OB the commercial products.