Dan Pražák iOS 13 brings a plethora of new features. One of them is, for example, QuickPath Typing, i.e. the ability to write on the native keyboard by swiping from one letter to another, which Craig Federighi also demonstrated during the WWDC keynote. But he forgot to mention that the feature is only available on selected keyboards. Unfortunately, Czech is not one of them.
I found out about the lack of support for the Czech keyboard while testing iOS 13, when I wanted to test how reliable and comfortable stroke typing on the native keyboard is. At first, I thought that the function simply did not work for me due to a specific error, which is quite common in beta versions of systems. Only later did I find out that it is necessary to activate QuickPath Typing in the settings, but in my case the option to turn it on was missing. The subsequent change of the keyboard to English revealed that stroke typing only works for some languages, and Czech or Slovak are unfortunately not supported.
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And reason? Pretty simple. QuickPath Typing uses not only machine learning, but also a predictive keyboard to evaluate the "drawn" word with a stroke, and it is precisely this that has been missing in the case of Czech (and other languages) for several years. Thanks to it, the system also offers alternative words that could fit the move made. Thus, in the event of an incorrect automatic selection, the user can quickly choose another word and continue writing immediately.
Looking at the App Store, Apple's limited support is quite incomprehensible. A number of alternative keyboards for iOS have been offering both stroke typing and word prediction for Czech and Slovak for several years - for example, SwiftKey or Gboard. But the engineers in one of the most valuable companies in the world are not able to offer us even one of the functions.
No worries, just put Swiftkey and that's it :-)
It's sad, while we're all waiting for the Czech Siri, so Apple can't even make a stupid keyboard? Maybe next year there will be no road in the system and then they will stop importing it here? ?
By the way, the finger writing on the watch still doesn't work on the road either, and it's been how many years, 4 years? Really co*oti tvl?
I'll probably write a book: Unnecessary features from Android. I've been dictating everything for about 5 years now, even professional stuff is transcribed well by the iPhone. I don't know what stroke writing would be for me.
Maybe everyone doesn't want everyone around to hear what they're really "writing"
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