Google continues to improve Gboard. The virtual keyboard for Android finally welcomes a cancellation function allowing you to go back to correct errors in a message, like with Ctrl-Z in Windows.
One of the most practical functions of the virtual keyboard for smartphones is undoubtedly word suggestion, which allows it to suggest the rest of a sentence based on our typing habits. This also allows it to automatically correct certain mistakes – on a first name that we are used to using, for example. The problem is that it tends to record typos and other spelling errors, and applies them later, offering them to us by default. Enough to multiply false manipulations to the point of making, sometimes, the writing of a simple SMS very complicated
But Gboard, Google’s famous smartphone keyboard, has the solution. Indeed, the application is in the process of integrating a new function allowing you to quickly cancel the last action(s) that you have carried out, as reported 9to5google. It’s a bit like the Ctrl+Z command on Windows or Command+Z on macOS. In testing since July 2023, the function is deployed in the beta version of the Android application. Enough to correct errors and other spelling mistakes in no time!
Gboard cancellation: finally a function to correct input errors
Gboard will therefore integrate a “cancel” button – with an arrow-shaped icon – which does precisely what its name indicates: it cancels the user’s last entries. This is located in the functions menu, accessible via the four small squares with rounded edges in the upper left corner. So it only takes two finger taps to remove the terrible error from your text. Note that it is also possible to install the command in the first row of keyboard tools in order to access it directly, since Google allows you to reorganize the toolbar according to your wishes.
Simply press the icon in question to cancel the last action performed in the input bar and return directly to the keyboard in order to continue writing without wasting time. This function allows you to delete both part and all of a word, and even select one of the keyboard options.. Small detail that is important: Gboard remembers the complete history of the current text field, which allows it to cancel actions until returning to the initially empty line. For the moment, the “Cancel” function is available in the 14.9.0.x beta version of Gboard, so you will have to wait a little longer before seeing it arrive on the stable version of the application.