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I want to switch from iPhone to android, but don't want to lose my (thousands of) keyboard shortcuts. Is there any way to transfer these to a new Android phone?
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean by Keyboard shortcuts, could you elaborate?
If you're using swiftkey and have a swiftkey account, you may be able to migrate some stuff over. Probably not if you're using the standard iOS keyboard though, sorry.
If you're using swiftkey and have a swiftkey account, you may be able to migrate some stuff over. Probably not if you're using the standard iOS keyboard though, sorry.
Keyboard shortcuts are a standard feature on iPhones that allows you to create abbreviations for words or phrases, which then are used in either texting, in your browser, when typing on your Notepad, calendar etc. For instance, if I type in just the letters "wau" it knows to expand this to "Where are you?" because I programmed it in. Also, the letters "mtsh" become expanded automatically to the full name of my city "Mt. Shasta" complete with caps and punctuation. It's a great time saver! I do not know what Swiftkey is or have a swiftkey account. Would appreciate any help you can give me! Thanks!
Ah, thanks. Probably not something I'd use, but I can totally see how that would be a handy feature. 
To my knowledge, there isn't anything like that on Android, sorry.
Swiftkey is a 3rd Party Keyboard for Android and iOS: http://swiftkey.com/en/keyboard/ios/
The autocorrect is great and it learns what you type so can make pretty good predictions about what your next words are going to be. If I start a conversation with my other half, my first question is commonly centred around our daughter so if type "Hey Sweetie", Swiftkey makes the assumption that my next few words will be "how's the little madam doing" so I wouldn't need to type it. All I do is press the space key to confirm its prediction. Does that make sense?
You can link it to your facebook/email accounts so it will learn from them too (although it's not something I've done).
They have a feature called Swiftkey Cloud which syncs your predictions & dictionary across devices and platforms so you get the same predictions on multiple devices.
It's not ideal/exactly what you're looking for, but it's the closest I can think of.
How big a deal breaker is this?
To my knowledge, there isn't anything like that on Android, sorry.
Swiftkey is a 3rd Party Keyboard for Android and iOS: http://swiftkey.com/en/keyboard/ios/
The autocorrect is great and it learns what you type so can make pretty good predictions about what your next words are going to be. If I start a conversation with my other half, my first question is commonly centred around our daughter so if type "Hey Sweetie", Swiftkey makes the assumption that my next few words will be "how's the little madam doing" so I wouldn't need to type it. All I do is press the space key to confirm its prediction. Does that make sense?
You can link it to your facebook/email accounts so it will learn from them too (although it's not something I've done).
They have a feature called Swiftkey Cloud which syncs your predictions & dictionary across devices and platforms so you get the same predictions on multiple devices.
It's not ideal/exactly what you're looking for, but it's the closest I can think of.
How big a deal breaker is this?
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Man that defo sounds like (hate to say it) something Android is lacking.
I could totally see me use a feature like that!
I could totally see me use a feature like that!
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??? You got me there bro.... It's early morning here....
Really funky, that surprises me because after all, would you really be able to remember all of that - because I wouldn't and that's a fact.
Which - is just so obvious I didn't know why I had to explain it.
I suppose that the iPhone thing is pretty cool, but then again, they only recently got swiping and SwiftKey and Swype are still buggy over there.