Gboard starts rolling out ‘Undo’ button on Android

9to5google.com Gboard starts rolling out ‘Undo’ button on Android

After first being spotted in development in July of 2023, the Gboard beta is beginning to roll out an “Undo” button...

After first being spotted in development in July of 2023, the Gboard beta is beginning to roll out an “Undo” button...

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A good reminder to stop using gboard. Others have pointed to alternatives. Heliboard is another FOSS option that's had this for years.
- I wish Heliboard was usable, but it has so many small but show-stopping bugs or omissions.
  I know, I know. Should fix it myself and do a pull request. Hopefully one day got time for that, like fixing the over-scaled emoji picked (that breaks kaomoji due to the scaling) or the lack of a search box there. It's easily the closest FOSS keyboard to the big two (Gboard and SwiftKey), so with a bit more work it could really compete with them I feel.
  
  I tried heliboard. It apparently kicks ass on the back end but the front end sucks and that's the part I use.
  FUTO Keyboard is the one!
  
  Really? I've been using Heliboard (as a replacement for florisboard) and I have had literally no complaints works just as well as gboard did for me. I 100% recommend Heliboard I think its 10/10
  
  I tried to love Heliboard too, had similar issues.
  Moved to FUTO Keyboard after a recommendation on here, really happy with it
- Herebisbmybissuevwithbheliboard
  
  That shakes me to my core. Lol
- I rely on the glide typing to much, and all I've tried don't feel as smooth. But I'm on GrapheneOS and disallowed internet access to GBoard, so while not great, it's fine for now
  
  Heliboard has glide typing lol, although the file has to be downloaded manually iirc.
- The addition of an option is a good reminder for you to talk about your book. Fine. GBoard is still king for those of us who use 3 languages at the same time. Unrequested suggestions and virtus signaling are sooo annoying...
  
  You took the time to comment just like me. I use a few languages too, yours simply sounds like virtue signalling for gboard. ¯|(ツ)/¯
- Gboard combines Japanese and German in a way that is properly usable. I wish there was a better alternative. That being said, support for east Asian languages (and easy switching) isn't relevant for most.
- I was looking for an alternative to fossify, thanks for the recommendation
- Why don't we like gboard again?
  
  Personal data collection
  
  That "g" stands for Google. You don't pay for Google products, so you are the product being sold. You touch your keyboard often. You press sensitive and embarrassing things into it.
- But no Gboard means no voice typing :( I use that thing every day.
  
  Heliboard with Futo voice typing ( unlike gboard it works offline)
  
  Gboard voice typing backend:

It took a year and a half to develop an "undo" feature? WTF is happening at Google?

I have this plus several other features like shifting left and right on the spacebar with FlorisBoard
- If by shifting left and right you mean moving the cursor, that has been in gboard for 5+ years.
  
  fair enough although I'm more interested in FOSS🌱 apps rather than proprietary and especially Google🗑️ apps
  
  Yes but the space bar has other functions in gboard so it's a 50/50 shot if you move 5 chars back or activate a random thing you never want to use.
- Yes but I miss swipe texting so much.
  
  There is a way to get swipe typing working
  
  Heliboard is basically like florisboard but you can use swipe typing.
- Oh cool, thanks for sharing this!
- Never heard of floris. Trying it out right now!
  
  It's a pass for me, due to lack of dictionary. Will keep it installed and try it again, when it's been added

... wait, you guys live without undo button??
HeliBoard gang
- Same here
  FUTO gang
- There's a bug dating back to October that made Heliboard unusable for me, because it cuts off half of the keyboard in landscape. Looks like it just got fixed but hasn't been rolled out yet. Meanwhile heliboard is just really bad about learning new words (tends to think capitalized words are a different word and adds them to the dictionary when you start a sentence with them, can't seem to handle autocorrecting to a word with an apostrophe). I gave up on it and went back to Gboard and I don't think I'm going back. Honestly I'm real frustrated with the state of android keyboards right now. Swiftkey used to be awesome but MS ruined it. Gboard is better than it used to be but it barely has an options for customizing it. I don't know anything better.

I already had this in futo keyboard

Haha florisboard already had that

Fun fact it's always had undo if you switch to the Japanese keyboard
I have absolutely no idea why that's the only way you've been able to do it until now

About time.

it's 2025 and having a freaking CTRL key on soft keyboards is still a luxury and obscure thing.
Why? Give us the CTRL key, and that's that.

Wow, it took them this long to include a backspace button? Jeez...
(yes I only read the headline, no I'm not going to read the page, yes I think it's funny, and no I don't care that you don't. thanks for coming to my ted talk.)

I'm hoping it works well. Biggest thing keeping me from switching is how easy it is to switch to Japanese and Chinese, as someone who enjoys music in both languages but can barely speak any. This will definitely help if I accidentally deleted something in either of those languages while looking up a song or trying to translate something. Or just if I'm typing on my txt file app and accidentally erase something I need, since the app has no undo buttons.

Still waiting for them to give me the option to make the keyboard automatically switch to floating in landscape mode (like it did before for a short period of time!) rather than do this:
- Not sure I understand why you would want that. But more options for gboard would always be good.
  
  I have a Pixel 7 pro and on the off chance I have to type in landscape it's super inconvenient to write anything on that long ass keyboard lmao
  The floating keyboard lets me swipe type with one hand, since I can reach the whole thing with just my thumb!

finally

OK they added a feature but is it usable yet? Gboard always seemed like the worst option to me. Never did do input right.

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