Gboard for Wear OS works on the Galaxy Watch 4 w/ Googles voice-to-text, QWERTY layout – 9to5Google

Regardless of the size of your smartwatch, inputting information on it can be a pain. Text input is done best by voice, which makes that tech crucial to get right. On Samsungs Galaxy Watch 4, the default is Samsungs engine, but its easy to switch over to Gboard for some big improvements.

Samsungs default keyboard uses Samsungs voice engine which, frankly, isnt very good. Well have more details in a coming review, but in the past two weeks using the Galaxy Watch 4 Ive had more than one frustration with the voice-to-text being slow and inaccurate.

This is where Samsungs use of Wear OS comes in handy. Its not pre-installed, but you can download Gboard from the Google Play Store and when installed, itll give you both a new keyboard layout option and better voice-to-text. Its pretty widely known that Googles voice-to-text is both accurate and fast, so its a great addition to the Watch 4. Notably, though, it can still take a second to start recognizing voice input just like Samsungs option.

Googles keyboard also makes a better option, at least in my opinion, on the Galaxy Watch 4. Samsungs default keyboard is locked to T9 input which, while small-screen-friendly, is slow and a pain for inputting longer bits of text, such as a Wi-Fi password. Gboard, meanwhile, gives the Galaxy Watch 4 a proper QWERTY layout that has been tried-and-true on older Wear OS devices with fairly easy input and good predictive text.

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