Hot on the heels of Microsoft releasing its WordFlow keyboard for iOS device, Google yesterday also unveiled its new keyboard for Apple’s mobile devices.
While you might think that it is just another keyboard that would replace the perfectly well default keyboard on iOS devices, you would be somewhat wrong.
The beauty about this one however, is that it is made by Google, and when the company is involved with something it invariably throws in something to do with the search functionality.
Called Gboard, the keyboard allows you to search the internet while in the middle of a chat without having to leaving the messaging application. Once you have found what you were searching, you can easily copy and paste the results into the chat.
“Searching and sending stuff on your phone shouldn’t be that difficult. With Gboard, you can search and send all kinds of things—restaurant info, flight times, news articles – right from your keyboard,” Google wrote in a blog post.
As the informative gif explains, results appear as cards with the key information front and center, such as the phone number, ratings and hours. With one tap, you can send it to your friend and you keep the conversation going.
As with anything that you download, you should really check the Ts&Cs of any application, especially when it is a keyboard. As with Microsoft’s WordFlow, the app needs full access in order to “transmit anything you type.”
I thought I’d try Google’s Gboard keyboard for iOS… NOPE. pic.twitter.com/NRWfG7U5Cm
— Nafisa Akabor (@nafisa1) May 12, 2016
In any case, below is also a video for you to check out.