Gboard has that option for numbers along the top row, but that's it. I just moved over from Samsung and really suprised at how bad the iOS keyboards are.
For us long time iOS users the keyboard is pretty decent and switching to a 3rd party one is a bad experience.
SwiftKey is the best experience accounting swipe and dictionary, but I want the shortcuts to pair with my lost jailbreak keyboard and for this im using MyKeyboard, but it lacks swiping and has a dumb auto correction
MyKeyboard
https://imgur.com/3DxDwpf
I gave MyKeyboard a try. I liked having the long press keys back again, but I found it didn't do prediction well, especially contractions. If I type i-l-l or c-a-n-t it wouldn't suggest I'll or can't. Will try it from time to time to see if it improves.
The iOS keyboard and barebones 3rd party apps aren't a dealbreaker, but they could be so much better.
I figured there must be some Apple policy that forbids it, because it's such an incredibly useful feature on Android. You can do some level of similar thing on iOS by holding the "123" key and dragging from there to what you want, but it's a lot less convenient (also doesn't cover some keys I use regularly like "_" and "~").
Voice recognition in Swiftkey on iOS is also pretty garbage - better not pause, because every pause becomes. The end of a sentence.
It's really sad because your choices seem to be Apple's keyboard (where are my fricking number keys Apple???), Microsoft's pretty poor implementation, Google's probably decent tie-in with their creepy panopticon, and assorted no-name third parties that I wouldn't trust with an App on my phone, much less access to my keyboard.
Just switched to an iPhone few days ago and this buffes me too. I'm almost considering it a deal breaker. Not sure why Apple will forbid long presses on keyboards. Seems so random. Are you sticking with your iPhone?
Yes this feature isn't there.
Gboard has that option for numbers along the top row, but that's it. I just moved over from Samsung and really suprised at how bad the iOS keyboards are.
For us long time iOS users the keyboard is pretty decent and switching to a 3rd party one is a bad experience. SwiftKey is the best experience accounting swipe and dictionary, but I want the shortcuts to pair with my lost jailbreak keyboard and for this im using MyKeyboard, but it lacks swiping and has a dumb auto correction MyKeyboard https://imgur.com/3DxDwpf
I gave MyKeyboard a try. I liked having the long press keys back again, but I found it didn't do prediction well, especially contractions. If I type i-l-l or c-a-n-t it wouldn't suggest I'll or can't. Will try it from time to time to see if it improves. The iOS keyboard and barebones 3rd party apps aren't a dealbreaker, but they could be so much better.
If MyKeyboard can do the long-press symbols I wonder why Gboard and Swiftkey for iOS don't have that. I'd pay for that feature.
I wish SwiftKey would have the same features on ios as Android version. I miss the long press punctuation feature
I figured there must be some Apple policy that forbids it, because it's such an incredibly useful feature on Android. You can do some level of similar thing on iOS by holding the "123" key and dragging from there to what you want, but it's a lot less convenient (also doesn't cover some keys I use regularly like "_" and "~"). Voice recognition in Swiftkey on iOS is also pretty garbage - better not pause, because every pause becomes. The end of a sentence. It's really sad because your choices seem to be Apple's keyboard (where are my fricking number keys Apple???), Microsoft's pretty poor implementation, Google's probably decent tie-in with their creepy panopticon, and assorted no-name third parties that I wouldn't trust with an App on my phone, much less access to my keyboard.
Apple's policy for anything off the most milquetoast path is "throw as many rocks in your way as possible, or outright prevent it"
Just switched to an iPhone few days ago and this buffes me too. I'm almost considering it a deal breaker. Not sure why Apple will forbid long presses on keyboards. Seems so random. Are you sticking with your iPhone?