Technology can’t yet keep up with bilinguals

One of the most frustrating experience with my top notch iPhone X is that it cannot recognize automatically which language I am typing. I have to constantly switch between three language keyboard, and I wonder if by there isn’t a simpler mode. For example, the first two typed word should be enough to determine one of the three languages installed on my phone.

Turns out Alexa, Amazon’s robot, is having a hard time dealing with bilingual families. This is an American-Argentinian family’s experience: https://slate.com/technology/2…lexa-bilingual-family.amp

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I used it when I bought an Android phone years ago, then I switched to apple and Swiftkey was not available for MacOs.

I am using the regular keyboard, there is a globe icon to switch between languages and in some apps (such as iMessage and WhatsApp) it prompts the keyboard in the same language as the last message exchanged with a given recipient, but in others (FB, mail) it is not that smart. I write in three languages and manually shuffling between keyboards is a bummer!

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I have just installed SwiftKey on my iPhone and it just supports two languages at time. That said, it is working pretty great with English!

I will give it a proper run this week.

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I installed swiftkey on my phone, but hesitated about giving full access. Still, I started to do it so i could get word predictions and keep languages up to dste. but i got cold feet when i read the warning that allowing full access would "allow the keyboard developer to transmit anything you type, including ... credit card numbers...."

That sounds too risky. but without full access, i can't get word predictions, so the app's helpfulness is seriously minimized.

Did you allow full access, serafina and Splinter ?

I don't even read these fine prints - it is either that or no service. But now that you tell me, maybe it is time to reconsider