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Gboard
Raised as a usability problem by 50 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 35 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Typed words auto-corrected to something else when pressing spaceUnreviewed
20162026- Autocorrects Czech and Polish word forms into nonsensical words, forcing avoidance of typing2025-12-11
- Keeps making typos on every word, typing code snippets is painful2022-01-21
- Can't turn off automatic space insertion after swipe-typed words, so typing URLs is awkward2021-04-01
Third-party keyboard on iOS lags when typingUnreviewed
20162026- Third-party keyboard on iOS feels laggy and slow when typing2022-10-10
- Phone becomes extremely slow while the Gboard keyboard app is in use2017-09-03
- Separate keyboard apps force laggy, annoying switching between languages2017-04-03
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Keyboard has become unusable lately2026-06-30
- Typing 'fac' no longer shows the facepalm emoji; it must type 'facepal' first2026-06-25
- Keyboard UI doesn't display properly and doesn't fit the keyboard area on iOS 262026-02-14
- Keyboard became progressively so slow it was unusable2025-12-12
- Autocorrects Czech and Polish word forms into nonsensical words, forcing avoidance of typing2025-12-11
- Constantly has to look at the keyboard to make sure it types what intended2025-08-14
- Hard to move the cursor one or two characters; it skips word boundaries2024-12-13
- Cursor skips word boundaries and needs a big swipe to move one or two characters2024-12-13
- Glide typing suggestions fail to offer basic word forms2024-12-12
- Hard to get a Gboard bug report to the right people; no public tracker2024-11-13
- Backspace re-inserts a space after deletion, forcing manual letter-by-letter typing2024-11-13
- Keyboard fails to appear when needed and copy/paste menus don't show2024-11-13
- Disabling grammar correction also disables typo fixes, with no separate control2024-10-25
- Opening FUTO keyboard app silently resets Gboard as the default2024-07-01
- Gif search feature is distracting in the keyboard2024-06-30
- Arabic predictions are so poor that swipe typing becomes unusable2024-06-30
- Too complicated for elderly users; keyboard gets into confusing states hard to fix2024-04-23
- Backspace often types wrong characters or enter instead, causing frequent errors2024-02-27
- Characters appear slower than the user types, and it crashes when typing ahead2023-10-06
- Finger motion too sensitive; small movements shift cursor unexpectedly, forcing very still hand2023-09-27
- Tapping text to place the cursor is imprecise, so fixing one typo means deleting several characters2023-09-26
- Copy/paste buttons are hidden behind a menu, hard to discover2023-09-24
- Cursor-drag on spacebar is non-discoverable and pasting takes several hidden steps2023-09-24
- Punctuation needs awkward long-press swipes; comma after prediction leaves an extra space2023-04-17
- Punctuation requires a long press, unlike the easier swipe in the old input method2023-04-17
- Keys moved after update; < and > missing unless number row kept on2022-10-13
- Third-party keyboard on iOS feels laggy and slow when typing2022-10-10
- Keys are too small, so fingertips hit two keys and typos pile up2022-10-04
- User cannot figure out how to access or use Emoji Kitchen2022-07-26
- No forward slash key on long-press, though backslash is there2022-03-08
- Selecting text to copy is annoying2022-01-29
- Keeps making typos on every word, typing code snippets is painful2022-01-21
- Voice typing inserts unwanted asterisks; setting resets after each update2021-09-19
- Swipe typing makes about 20% errors, so correcting them is slower than tapping2021-04-01
- Can't turn off automatic space insertion after swipe-typed words, so typing URLs is awkward2021-04-01
- Autocorrect replaces typed words with email addresses, causing wrong words to be sent2020-11-24
- Forward slash requires navigating to a second symbols page, while backslash is one long press2020-07-31
- Typing an accidental ä, ö or å drops English suggestions, forcing retyping the word2020-04-30
- Typed words get auto-corrected to something else on pressing space, making it nearly unusable2019-10-25
- Misspells word beginnings because earlier segments aren't reevaluated, requiring significant editing2019-03-08
- Learned words are forgotten, and the comma key can't be added or configured2019-02-18
- Annoying bug when it shows two-word suggestions while swipe typing2018-03-04
- Auto-correction changes previous word and the user cannot turn it off2018-02-21
- Swipe gestures sometimes aren't recognized, typing only the last letter touched instead2018-02-21
- Autocorrect changes correct earlier words and the user can't turn it off2018-02-21
- Giant search bar wastes space and constantly prompts for full access, accidentally pulling users out of app2017-12-05
- Phone becomes extremely slow while the Gboard keyboard app is in use2017-09-03
- Separate keyboard apps force laggy, annoying switching between languages2017-04-03
- Can't turn off the search part of the keyboard; SwiftKey and Swype quirks are annoying2016-05-12
- Google wordmark always takes about 10% of screen, wasting space2016-05-12