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I hope somebody will take the time to incorporate a model like these into keyboard typing prediction soon.

I switched from Android to iOS and back to Android because the keyboard typing predictions on iOS were so bad in comparison. It felt like I was using a phone from 10 years ago.

Did the same switch (Android -> iOS), but found SwiftKey[0] is also available on iOS. Better (or more Android:isch?) typing experience.

They also solve the issue for us using multiple languages on a daily basis (first and second mother tongue + English), without having to cycle through all the iOS built-in keyboards just because you want to mix in a few English words/phrases.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-swiftkey-ai-keyboard...

I thought iOS 17 was using on-device GPT-2 for keyboard predictions.

It’s using something, I don’t know what. It’s a MASSIVE improvement from the continuous slow degradation that ended in 16.x.

Dozens of languages don’t have that. My language doesn’t even have prediction, only broken autocorrect.

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