After using Google's iPhone keyboard for a week, I'll never use anything else - here are the 5 best features

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Gboard

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Gboard lets you swipe to type.

A little over a year ago, Google unveiled Gboard, an on-screen keyboard for Android and iPhone devices.

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I wasn't an early adopter. In fact, I wondered why anyone would need an alternate keyboard when Apple's is perfectly fine.

How wrong I was.

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I've now been trying out Gboard for a little over a week and can definitively say it's changed how I type, send messages, find emoji, use GIFs, and search Google.

In fact, it's such a upgrade from the standard iPhone keyboard that I don't know if I'll ever go back.

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Here are some of my favorite features:

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