{"id":70013,"date":"2014-07-29T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=70013"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:34:35","slug":"swiftkey-gets-huge-performance-bump-in-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/swiftkey-gets-huge-performance-bump-in-latest-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiftkey fixes lag in latest update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Android keyboard replacement <strong>Swiftkey<\/strong> received a major update today. If you&#8217;ve noticed some lag using the keyboard, that&#8217;s all fixed now.<\/p>\n<p>Both traditional typing and Swiftkey&#8217;s <strong>Flow gesture typing<\/strong> have been sped up. I&#8217;ve been using the keyboard for years now, and there&#8217;s always been a slight (but still annoying) lag when typing quickly. That lag has been eliminated in this latest update. Flow now offers better prediction and finger tracking too.<\/p>\n<p>The update also brings bug fixes for random crashes, disappearing backgrounds for certain themes, and more.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried Swiftkey yet, you can get it for free at the download link below. 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If you&#8217;ve noticed some lag using the keyboard, that&#8217;s all fixed now. Both traditional typing and Swiftkey&#8217;s Flow gesture typing have been sped up. I&#8217;ve been using the keyboard for years now, and there&#8217;s always been a slight (but still annoying) lag when typing quickly. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/swiftkey-gets-huge-performance-bump-in-latest-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swiftkey fixes lag in latest update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":70015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2627],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-70013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionswiftkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330440,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70013\/revisions\/330440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70013"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=70013"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=70013"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=70013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}