have ’s just admit it to ourselves here and now : The stock iOS keyboard is not that ripe . Microsoft lately essay to make typecast more comfortable with its futuristic looking one - handed keyboard ( and it was decent ! ) . Now Google wants to ameliorate just about everything else with the newGboard . So we tried it out , and yeah , it ’s great .
On the aerofoil Gboard does n’t look wildly different from the iOS keyboard , but the self-aggrandising sell here is have search inside the keyboard . That means being capable to institutionalize a link or an speech without hold to leave the Messages app or fumble around endeavor to copy and paste . Search results appear as cards which you may add to your substance with a single pat .
Search also extend to emoji , which is something we ’ve need for a foresightful metre . Terms are n’t fussy either , so finding the right-hand emoji is intuitive . Some oddity to observe :
Most emoji do n’t set out meaningfully populating in lookup until you input two or three characters . A “ most - used ” nonremittal like Io would be skillful .
Specificity does n’t seem to matter to a point . “ cherry-red attire ” is full of emojis which are mostly crimson , but mostly not dress - have-to doe with .
The only emoji that comes up for “ hate ” is the uncanny lemon - head baby .
Gboard come pack with a fate of other feature — like gif and photo hunting and glide typing — that you ’ll probably never use . And the overwhelming satire of being able to easy text and computer address to someone is that it will needs open that address in Apple Maps , when Google Maps would be markedly better . As an unexpected bonus though , text replacements you ’ve added to your iPhone will show up in the predictive text subdivision of Gboard ( for example , “ qd ” is set to “ ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ” in my phone ) .
Because there are two places you may type in — one for texting and one for search — there will ineluctably be mishap where you ’ll send the lyric “ skateboard dog response gif ” to your friend rather of get Google to fetch and air the actual affair . It might not be all the way of life there yet , but Gboard presents a better alternative to the stock iOS option .
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