Both iOS and Android mobile users can agree that both operating systems are very mature and do many things very well, although both systems also have their differences and advantages that make users opt for one or the other. other platform.
In the case of Android, among these advantages there are a keyboard undoubtedly superior to the native iOS keyboard. And Gboard can do a lot of things, so although there are other keyboards available on the Play Store, many users prefer Google’s keyboard. In my case, the biggest advantage of this keyboard is such a useful tool that I find it incredible that Apple has not yet implemented it on the iPhone.
This is why the Android keyboard outperforms the iPhone one: the clipboard
We have all used the tool to copy and paste text on any of our devices, since the famous ‘Ctrl+C – Ctrl+V‘ from Windows even when we copy a text to our mobile phone, by pressing for a few seconds on a phrase or word. Android keyboard takes this tool to another level.
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And Gboard includes a section dedicated to the Clipboard, extremely useful. Every time we copy something, the keyboard can store it in this section so that we can access this information later, in any application and, more importantly, whether or not you copied anything else.
For example, let’s say you copied a text on your phone and before pasting it into a message or wherever you planned to paste it, you copied another one. Normally, the second text would replace the first in the clipboard of any mobile phone, like iPhone. The Android keyboard, on the other hand, allows you to save both texts to paste them later.
Actually, Android clipboard you can save texts, links and even images. And we can fix the content in the clipboard so that it does not disappear over time or with a mobile reboot.
We have two ways to access the clipboard on the Android keyboard. The first is to click the four-box button in the upper left corner of the keyboard, then click “Clipboard.” The second option is even faster: we can add clipboard to main list of keyboard shortcuts
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Once we access the “Clipboard”, we activate it by pressing the switch, and the keyboard will start saving in this section the last elements that we copy to the mobile. The clipboard has the following limitations:
- You can only save about 6 items, including text and images.
- Pinned items disappear after about two hours
- Pinned items don’t disappearso that we can save them to the “Clipboard” if we use them constantly
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This is a really useful feature, which I use every day and which, without a doubt, I wish I had something like this on my iPhone. Perhaps Apple will implement this possibility in iOS in the future, in the same way as has been the case. inspired on Android recently, allowing application icons to be placed anywhere on the desktop screen and other customization options recently added with the arrival of iOS 18.
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Android still beats the iPhone by far on something basic for me: the keyboard. And no one will change my mind
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by Eduardo Marín.
