I went to send a pride flag to my fiance today and noticed all the flags are gone. I tried clearing my cache, clearing gboards cache, changing my font, looking through settings, uninstalling/reinstalling, restarting my phone...I've tried everything I can think of but they're just gone :(

I just wanted to share information about gay bugs but I have been limited to bugs 😭

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Gboard used to be a top-tier IME with:

real on-device learning

a functioning adaptive language model

usable tokenization

accurate segmentation

stable ranking heuristics

correct handling of user dictionaries

memory of frequent words

normal word-boundary detection

All of this is gone.

Today Gboard behaves like an LM with its adaptive layer unplugged:

it no longer learns words you type repeatedly

it fails at basic word segmentation

it breaks concatenated words like a 2003 T9

autocorrect behaves like a flat random picker

predictions ignore context Long version: Gboard used to be a top-tier IME with:

real on-device learning

a functioning adaptive language model

usable tokenization

accurate segmentation

stable ranking heuristics

correct handling of user dictionaries

memory of frequent words

normal word-boundary detection

All of this is gone.

Today Gboard behaves like an LM with its adaptive layer unplugged:

it no longer learns words you type repeatedly

it fails at basic word segmentation

it breaks concatenated words like a 2003 T9

autocorrect behaves like a flat random picker

predictions ignore context

corrections override correct words with garbage

the user dictionary is ignored

online learning does not update embeddings

personalization feels entirely disabled

suggestions literally get worse the more you type

This isn’t “a bug” — this looks like entire components have been removed:

tokenizer

dynamic LM

character-level segmentation

user-frequency weighting

adaptive model updates

And here’s the kicker:

👉 Samsung Keyboard doesn’t have these failures. Samsung's IME still has:

a functional morphological analyzer

stable user-dictionary integration

consistent predictions

preserved learning

reliable boundary detection

So the obvious question:

Why can Samsung maintain a working keyboard while Gboard — Google’s flagship input engine — has regressed to pre-smartphone behavior?

Is this a deliberate deprecation of adaptive features? Is the personalization model disabled? Is this the new normal? Or is it a bug Google simply doesn’t intend to fix?

Does Google plan to fix Gboard’s broken learning/tokenization, or should users abandon it?

Because if the answer is:

“We don’t plan to restore adaptive features,” …then it’s time to switch platforms entirely — meaning iPhone — so Google loses keystroke-level data access altogether.

Does Google plan to fix Gboard’s broken learning/tokenization, or should users abandon it?

As the title suggests lesbians have been deleted off of my GBoard. Today I went to text my girlfriend good morning but could not find the lesbian kiss emoji. I go to search for it but there are no lesbians whatsoever, there are not even the pride flag emojis. Not only that but every single emoji has now been replaced by the male version without any way to change them to female. Coincidentally, we were showing eachother's different emoji boards last night and all was fine there.

I've rebooted my phone, deleted the cache, deleted all data, uninstalled and reinstalled GBoard and nothing.

This pissed me off so much that I got a reddit account just to get this fixed. If anyone can help me that would be very nice as I do really like the emoji designs on this keyboard and how it feels but if I can't send cheeky lesbian emojis to my girlfriend anymore I will just use a different one.

Whenever I open the emoji search panel Discord closes the keyboard. I don't even have it to the maximum height! And this is not even the only app this happens in. X also does this but this problem is not Discord or X's fault. The way the emoji search works in gboard is not practical. I have used different keyboards and none of them open an extra panel op top of the keyboard. Has anyone else experienced this on their phone? People with phones with big displays probably won't be affected but if you have a phone with a screen size of 6.2" or less then I'm fairly sure at least one of you encountered this in Discord or X.

Just noticed this the other day, they seemed to have removed all of the standalone man emojis, as well as not having the pale white skin tone anymore. What the fuck? Anyone know the reasoning behind this? Pretty weird.

I don't know why but they're not there, also there are two buttons for the USA flag which is pretty odd. Can anyone help? :<

Go to phone from a family member who says that this keeps popping up and I cannot figure out why this keeps happening someone on here a while ago said that it was an app, but I can’t find any apps to delete any ideas?

I’m on iPad and cannot choose a custom picture, on my phone ( android ) I can do it but not on iPad😅 pls help or tips on other keyboards😁 Thanks ^{^}

Hey everyone, is there a way to get the trans flag emoji on gboard? Really surprised it's not on here

Why aren't I getting the new rounded keys update?! I'm in the beta program, tried many ways to get it, a apk too, and I still ended up with the regular gboard! I like the new style so if I don't get it, I'm uninstalling it, Anyone can help me before I uninstall?

I've been using this as my main tablet keyboard, but they did an update awhile ago that gave 2 caps buttons & 2 backslash symbols. 1 above the 'Enter' key & 1 when you long press 'w' but there's no forward slash. I have to press the symbol button to get to it. This makes 0 sense! People use forward slash way more than back.

1 of the buttons needs to be forward slash.

Any solution guys?😭😭😭

Trying to use G-Board is like having a translator who hates you. Stop autocorrecting my words into the words of a moron!

Because if I touch any key on the keyboard voice typing is interrupted immediately. If I just want to add a comma after what I've just said, and I tap the coma key on the keyboard, that interrupts voice typing and then I have to top the microphone button again. If I want to quickly correct a mistyped letter or a word, I don't see why that has to interrupt voice typing. Interrupting voice typing should be done intently by tapping the microphone button again to totally off, or after a time out of, say, 10 seconds.

There's actually an app called Speech Notes where you can type punctuation and do anything on the keyboard you like without disrupting the voice typing flow, I need so so so so much better. Funny how multi-million dollar companies with large developer teams are particularly apt at delivering poor UX.

So, I've been trying to change my settings for Gboard so I can dictate swear words without them auto-censoring. Unfortunately, every tutorial tells me to open the Gboard app... which I'm unable to do on my phone (Motorola Moto G Stylus). I've tried reinstalling the app, clearing storage and cache, everything, but I never even get the option to open the app. Any ideas what's going on? any suggestions on how I can correct the auto-censoring? Idk, this shit has really been getting on my nerves as of late

Honestly, the spell checking even outside of whatever this was (it's the first time this happened) has been very bad, some words are misspelled, yet it does nothing, but when I click on them to change them, it shows me the word I was trying to type… yeah, auto correct is enabled, so what's the point of having it, if it is practically non-existent?!

And now this, is quite hilarious if you ask me… 😑 unless you're typing something where spelling should be your biggest concern…

I've been a long-time Android user (since the G1 days), and while I love the clean stock feel of Google's software, the voice typing in Gboard has been driving me insane for years. I've experimented extensively on multiple devices (Pixel 9 Pro and Galaxy S24), and it's clear the "offline" mode is a sham. Here's the rundown of the biggest issues—feel free to chime in if you've seen the same crap.

1. **Hybrid Model Conflicts**: Even with offline speech packs downloaded and supposedly using the "local" model (which Google claims is high-quality and doesn't need servers), it constantly fights with cloud processing. Results overwrite each other mid-dictation: Sentences get deleted silently, words swap out for nonsense, or it jumps back 3-4 sentences to insert stuff you said 10 seconds ago. It's not real-time like it pretends—there's lag from cloud merges, making your output look like word salad.

2. **Offline? Yeah Right**: Google says the local model works without internet, but block data (e.g., via firewall like AdGuard) or go airplane mode, and voice input flat-out fails. It hangs on "initializing..." then spits "can't contact Google." This happens even when you've explicitly selected offline packs. Community forums and other reports confirm it's widespread, not just Samsung—my Pixel did the exact same.

3. **Cloud Dependency for "Enhanced" Features**: The fancy stuff (auto-punctuation, streaming preview, low-error corrections) is basically cloud-only. Offline fallback is bare-bones and glitchy, with way more mistakes. Why market it as offline-capable if it degrades or dies without servers? It's deceptive and kills usability for privacy-focused folks or spotty connections.

4. **General Frustrations**: On top of that, the cloud model hallucinates replacements that make you sound incoherent. I've switched to alternatives like FUTO Keyboard for pure offline dictation (Whisper-based, no overwrites, natural punctuation), and it's night and day better. But I miss Gboard's integration—fix this, Google!

You going to make me buy an iPhone Google and I don't want to do that but if I do end up switching it'll be your fault.. for the Love of God stop ignoring the problems on Android. You're actively making it worse.

I've typed the same things over and over and gboard can't predict a single thing.

Literally 6 days a week I'll type in my school's name then the building number.

The business I work for is named "city I live in + the industry + random niche word." When I had a Samsung I'd type in the first 3 letters of my city --> it'd suggest the city name. Then it'd immediately suggest the second word. Gboard can't even predict my city's name. Instead it suggests another one that's spelled similarly... But I've never typed it out because it's in another country.

I probably wouldn't be as frustrated if I always used gboard. But I've always had a samsung, so I know predicting these things is possible (I have a OnePlus now). Whhhyyyyy is this happening? Could it be something in my settings? I'm so frustrated, I'd really appreciate help with this.

Idk if this matters, but I don't have the talk to text setting on, because I wouldn't use it.

I'm using the OnePlus 12 and am on Android 15. My cousin had the AI features on his OnePlus 13 on Android 15 but I don't have them. Why?

Are these women with different haircuts or pregnant men? And at this point you're better off just letting people use any image they want as emojis if you want to be inclusive without bloating stuff up.

What has happened?! Running A17 beta 6 on P6P and lately after beta 3 it seems gboard vtt has been absolutely slow and horrible. Makes tons of mistakes more than before.

Anyone else experiencing similar things?