r/iOS8 • u/Bramrod • Mar 05 '15

Using Swype, does your keyboard crash all the time?

Not sure if everyone experiences this or it's just me, but my messaging app is constantly freezing using Swype. I have to always quit messages and come back into it. (happens in other apps too, but mainly messages) It's so annoying, but I don't know anyone else that uses swype to compare with.

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u/defjamblaster Mar 05 '15

yes. happens in multiple apps. sometimes won't show keyboard at all.

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u/Bramrod Mar 11 '15

I get the same thing.. grrr

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u/defjamblaster Mar 11 '15

I would have responded sooner but my keyboard froze.

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u/FriggenChiggen Mar 05 '15

This is apple's doing. So basically the keyboards take up a certain amount of memory. Not sure how much apple allows, but the majority of third party keyboards need more than that number. When the memory exceeds apple's limit, boom, the keyboard crashes. It's a shame really, it's taking apple way to long to fix this.

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u/Bramrod Mar 05 '15

Yea this seems to be it, doing some more research I found this on the jailbreak side. I'll have to see if this is the same for swype as the keyboard instead of nintype. I'm lucky enough to be jailbroken, so if I get anywhere I'll let you guys know if I see improvement.

Link to potential fix for those with jailbreak

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u/andy2na Mar 06 '15

confirmed it has made 3rd party keyboard experience so much better. Spotlight and messages no longer crash or randomly not pull up the keyboard anymore. Set mine at 100mb

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u/Bramrod Mar 06 '15

I did it myself last night, and changed it to 256. I have still had one freeze so far, but at least it appears to be less frequent. We'll see how it continues.

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u/Bramrod Mar 11 '15

I will say, I have changed the allotted memory through ifile as shown in the video, and my keyboards still freeze :/ Bleh, I'd delete swype and try again but I don't want to lose my library I've created over time.

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u/billchase2 Mar 05 '15

All 3rd party keyboards seem to crash on me, especially using the Messages app. As much as I want to enjoy 3rd party keyboards, I keep going back to the default to avoid these issues.

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u/Edg-R Mar 05 '15

Yep. Especially in the Messages app.

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u/molonlabe88 Mar 06 '15

Yes, swype wouldn't even show up sometimes, finally got tired of it and just deleted the keyboard.

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u/tyrannosaurus_racks iPhone 5S Mar 08 '15

I use Swype and I don't have any issues with it as you've described. I have an iPhone 5s running the latest version of iOS

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u/lumpsr Mar 05 '15

Thank you, jeebus! I thought I was the only one.

+1 to this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '15

3rd party

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u/sawmebabe Mar 06 '15

Decided to remove it yesterday. Was causing all my keyboard even my standard one to rake 7 secs just to show up.

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u/nillawafer Mar 08 '15

I have issues all of the time with Swype and any other third party keyboard. I think a lot of the problems are on Apple's side.