I used to use multiple keyboards (in particular because I frequently needed to type in Portuguese) but it’s always been a pain switching between keyboards. The iPhone will try to predict which keyboard you want to use next and simply switch back and forth between them, instead of just cycling evenly between all your keyboards. I guess that’s nice for people that don’t switch keyboards often, but personally I’d much rather develop the muscle memory to cycle evenly through my keyboards than have iOS incorrectly predict which keyboard I want next.
So now, I just use the regular stock Apple keyboard with the Emoji keyboard.
Padkeys layout works for me using mark down apps. It works if I’m sitting in the garden. It works…
In the past i read long novels and wrote papers on an ancient iTouch. But the Atlantic Ocean was crossed in an amphibious jeep. Proves it can be done not that is a good idea.
If i have a table my Logitech K811 keyboard is my tool of choice. I use a messenger bag. Transport is not a problem.
I use the stock keyboard on my iPhone, and I can type actually pretty quickly on it. On iPad, I’m much slower with the stock keyboard than I am even on iPhone, nothing to say about hardware keyboards. I think I’m gonna have to try Padkeys for my iPad after browsing through this thread.
Finally bought it (with the intention to replace Swype), but to be honest I almost immediately regretted it…
Typing via swiping hardly works at all with this keyboard. Often it does not recognize a single word and several times it crashed while swiping; eventually returning to the default iOS keyboard.
I will contact the author about this first, but I’m considering asking Apple for a refund.
For those that already were using it: is this specific for this version or a generic problem of this keyboard?
I use WordFlow but it’s sadly no longer available (from Microsoft Labs).
I also keep the stock kiSwahili keyboard on, not because I do any typing in Swahili but b/c it’s the standard Apple keyboard with no autocorrect. (I do know enough Swahili to know it doesn’t correct obvious typos…). Hence it’s useful for other African languages.
Aside: the 0-9 keypad typing on my pre-iPhone South African Nokia in isiXhosa and isiZulu had better autocorrect & prediction than any phone I’ve used since. (Presumably it’s related to the consonant-vowel structure of the languages).
I use the Stock keyboard as my primary keyboard, though I go through long periods where I get tempted by Gboard’s support for swiping, and I use that instead.
I also used the Copied keyboard for clipboard memory, and TextEpander for snippet expansion.
Big difference between Android and iOS: Android lets you change your default keyboard easily. It’s trickier on iOS, but iOS makes it easier to switch through different keyboards on the fly, for different purposes. Or at least that was the case last time I used Android, which was a few years ago.
