Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?

atocci@kbin.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 376 points –

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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I bounce back and forth. I’m faster using two thumbs and tapping but if I’m typing one handed swipe is far superior.

This is the way to do it. Autocorrect is doing 90% of the work in either case anyway, lol.

I have autocorrect turned off.
Full manual baybeeeeee

Same, but even when I type one-handed, I also bounce back and forth at each word. Swiping gets short words wrong more often, but more rarely long words.

So for instance, for “I am on vacation”, the only word I’d swipe when one-handed is “vacation”. If I swiped “am”, I’d probably have a 50-50 chance of getting “an”; which may or may not self-correct later, depending on what else it got wrong.

Exact same. Two thumbs when typing longer responses or when both hands are free. One handed always swiping unless I need to type an uncommon word or name.