Shulou(Shulou.com)05/31 Report--

­(original title: Google Pinyin input method, which can finally be used on iPhone)

­Ma Ruofei

The Google keyboard on ­iPhone finally supports simplified Chinese, supporting sliding input, emoji search and image search. Google does not upload user data. ITunes stores in the United States can be downloaded.

­iPhone has supported third-party input methods since iOS 8, and so far, there are many input methods that are easy to use in simplified Chinese context to keep up to date.

However, iPhone has a switch called "allow full control" in the setting of the third-party input method, which means that if the third-party input method wants to use the full function, it must allow the input method to take over the control of the iOS. In a system with conservative security permissions such as iOS, this is a rare opportunity for third-party App to take full control.

It is for this reason that choosing a third-party input method requires some psychological construction: the input method is closely related to user privacy. And whether the input method will steal everything I typed is a very sense of security-free question on the Chinese Internet.

­Google does a good job in this respect. The Google input method does not upload user data directly, but uses the input model to adjust input habits indirectly. Google's Chinese input method also seems to be more trustworthy, and it is now on iPhone.

The input method developed by ­Google on iOS is called Gboard, but this time we are not talking about it, but Google's iOS search application "Google".

­Google's search app has built-in Gboard, but its original function is no different from that of independent Gboard and does not support Chinese.

­but after the update on May 4th, Google search for Gboard in App added support in simplified Chinese.

­after opening a series of settings for iPhone and adding Chinese language to Gboard, you can save only Gboard for your iPhone: it supports Chinese full keyboard pinyin, five-stroke, nine-key pinyin and strokes, multiple language switches and global sliding input.

­as an input method, Gboard can input very smoothly without stuttering when switching, and the horizontal and vertical screen rotation is also very smooth. After iPhone uses science to surf the Internet, the Google input method can do more: you can enter keywords directly on the keyboard to search for web content, emoticons, Gif and uncopyrighted images, and paste them where you want to find them.

­but at the same time, Google's Chinese support is really strange. The ontology of Gboard on iOS and Android is not updated and does not support simplified Chinese; at the same time, input methods such as Google Pinyin and Japanese on Android are still being updated independently, but their functions overlap with Gboard; Google input method, which is the first to support more languages, is an additional function of Google search App.

­at present, there are some minor problems with Gboard simplified Chinese, such as not being able to add Pinyin and Wubao at the same time, but in any case, it must be recommended even if it can only be downloaded from iTunes stores in the United States.

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