Predictive Keyboard / Word Flow is a joke

[EspHack]

But that's provided that you are okay with using versions of apps that are outdated, and/or have only moved to Windows 10 Mobile. If you want to use some of the great apps, you're missing out. Never mind the fact that the switch for Skype will be shut off any day now on that OS.

My mind has entertained the idea occasionally, but missing out on general updates that have made some of these apps better just sucks.

it made some apps better and some apps worse, or non existent, take fb messenger, here maps, and so on

 

[Timbre70]

Testing once two the. Testing testing topping on w10m keyboard. This is the result.

 

[Kram Sacul]

But that's provided that you are okay with using versions of apps that are outdated, and/or have only moved to Windows 10 Mobile. If you want to use some of the great apps, you're missing out. Never mind the fact that the switch for Skype will be shut off any day now on that OS.

My mind has entertained the idea occasionally, but missing out on general updates that have made some of these apps better just sucks.

If I cared about up to date apps I wouldn't have switched from Android to Windows Phone years ago. I came to WP because of the user friendly UI, clean design language, keyboard, etc. All of that is still intact in 8.1.

 

[libra89]

If I cared about up to date apps I wouldn't have switched from Android to Windows Phone years ago. I came to WP because of the user friendly UI, clean design language, keyboard, etc. All of that is still intact in 8.1.

I get it but at the same time, it's hard for me to believe that anyone doesn't at least care for SOME apps. I don't know about your experience, but I know that for me, there are apps I use either daily or weekly that have improved a lot and are updated somewhat. One example is Twitter apps, including the official app itself. All of the popular third party apps only have updates reflected on the newer platform, including the official app itself.

it made some apps better and some apps worst, or non existent, take fb messenger, here maps, and so on

Fair point, can't dispute that! I guess whether it would be a gain or a loss of those apps is strongly person dependent. I never updated my dad's phone to Windows 10 Mobile. He's fine with the built in functions (phone, text, email, camera etc) and WhatsApp and occasional map usage with Here maps.

 

[cincykid76]

Glad I'm not the only one who finds this "function" atrocious. I literally don't even try to swipe anymore. The whole keyboard experience is entirely horrid in my opinion.

 

[EspHack]

Fair point, can't dispute that! I guess whether it would be a gain or a loss of those apps is strongly person dependent. I never updated my dad's phone to Windows 10 Mobile. He's fine with the built in functions (phone, text, email, camera etc) and WhatsApp and occasional map usage with Here maps.

I should've done the same with mine, he got rid of his 640 with 1607 and now has a 822 happily on 8.0, 8.1 is not showing up for some reason, but maan that thing is smooth, and definitely feels better than my w10m icon

its not just us enthusiasts, "this thing feels like quality" referring to his new 822 in comparison to the 640, his words, a man that barely knows how to chat

 

[Chintan Gohel]

The experience slightly improves when you remove the cursor in keyboard options but the inconsistencies still remain

 

[joshcsmith13]

I couldn't agree with you all more. This is infuriating!! As somebody else pointed out, it's almost like the longer the word is the worse it gets. That's ridiculous! If I distinctly change (or pause) the direction of my "flow", then it should be even easier for the dumb thing to figure out what I'm trying to spell because there will be fewer possible matches.
As it stands now, if I have to type something other than what's in the vocabulary of a 12 year old, I just start banging out individual letters.
...and I don't even think there's a way to train it for words that it often gets wrong (when it doesn't come up in the correction list)

 

[Tien-Lin Chang]

Having flow keyboard in my iPhone and my ATIV S(hack for W10M RS2 build), it does failed to deliver from time to time.

Something bothering me is I don't get the standard of word filter rules it which bans the word like "sexy" to be swiped out, why?

It keep giving like "Ext", "Exit", "Sect", "Speedy" which is just ****** as hell....

Since when "sexy" became a word to be forbidden?

 

[mattiasnyc]

The way I see it something is fundamentally wrong with how it is coded. I can swipe "miserable" but not "miserably". The latter results in "literally". So while swiping the exact same word for the first 8 letters, it actually understands the last 9th letter is different but chooses to then change all preceding 8!

This is probably my number 1 gripe with this phone.

 

[Tejas Javery]

At times it is irritating, else out is an amazing keyboard overall.

 

[HeyCori]

I use Swiftkey on Android. It works really well. It has never been as good as Word Flow on W10, though. So whateves...

 

[mattiasnyc]

I had an Android as well, and I never had these errors. I just don't really understand why they occur.

Another example is when I'm swiping a longer word where the direction of the movement of my finger changes X times, yet it suggests a word with X-3 times the direction changes. I mean, how does that make sense in any universe?

 

[jsooney]

Having flow keyboard in my iPhone and my ATIV S(hack for W10M RS2 build), it does failed to deliver from time to time.

Something bothering me is I don't get the standard of word filter rules it which bans the word like "sexy" to be swiped out, why?

It keep giving like "Ext", "Exit", "Sect", "Speedy" which is just ****** as hell....

Since when "sexy" became a word to be forbidden?

It won't offer a "bad" word the first few times. If you type it in manually a few times it will eventually add it to the allowed words. I can't answer why it might think "sexy" is bad.

 

[Exotic Hadron]

Absolutely agreed. I've noticed a significant downgrade (dammit, I couldn't even type 'downgrade'!) after upgrading from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 Mobile.

My guess wad (seesh, it was not wad, dear keyboard) that Microsoft has started to use another prediction cloud or something in Windows 10... It used to be so good and flawless on Windows Phone 8.1.

Also, it seems that the more ppl use the keyboard, the more skewed becomes the AI knowledge. In other words, it seems quality of predictions degrades, because the 'learned' cloud now seriously deviates from what it has been out of the box when it first appeared on the market.

That is to say researchers have trained the AI on the correct prediction corpus. But as time goes by, the cloud now learns from us, human beings, it learns how we type and... its trained prediction changed.

 

[Tejas Javery]

For 8.1, it was amazing. Like really amazing! Everything was accurate. Even bigger words. For 10, its quality degraded for sure. At times it is very very irritating. But cannot help it. I love windows. No choice.
Things i do for love... I tell you...

 

[dashrendar]

I have the same frustration... and this is mobile OS that is supposed to be targeted for business. Pshhh..

 

[terra]

Had to turn off suggestions, not sure where they were coming from. Very frustrating, as every sentence need to be checked.
8.1 was much better.

 

[Byrese]

Yeah it's pretty bad I can't lie. I like W10M but this is one area that is lacking.

Sent from my Lumia 950 on mTalk

 

[Canjok]

You are all lucky to have english as a native language. In Germany, we have an outdated dictionary. Many words have been changed in the 90's and the dictionary still uses the words before the reform.
It is unforgivable of Microsoft to give us germans such a bad keyboard. I don't even think germany is the only country with such a bad experience. Also, we have the letters ä,ö,ü. Because one has to hold a, swipe the finger to ä and then release the finger, I only write a normal a instead of ä (consumes too much time). Autocorrect doesn't autocorrect this. My old Samsung device could do that. Funny thing is, on my old samsung with 3,3" I have less typing errors than on my 5" WM10 device.