{"id":228595,"date":"2026-03-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:20:10","slug":"gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Gboard&#8217;s &#8216;undo&#8217; gesture is a compromise I&#8217;m willing to live with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/\">Gboard&#8217;s &#8216;undo&#8217; gesture is a compromise I&#8217;m willing to live with<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-28 13:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I write for a living, but I do it on my desktop. Well, mostly. I&#8217;ll admit that I still draft some parts of my work on Microsoft Word occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m able to do it mostly because Google&#8217;s Gboard keyboard app still exists. It&#8217;s my default keyboard app on all my Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly love how Gboard gives me a second chance when I accidentally delete a line of text. A quick backspace swipe can erase more than what you wanted, but the <strong>undo<\/strong> option brings everything back, just like the <strong>Ctrl<\/strong>+<strong>z<\/strong> keyboard shortcut on my desktop.<\/p>\n<p>The swipe-and-undo setup isn&#8217;t perfect, but no other keyboard app does it better than Gboard on Android.<\/p>\n<p>The setup feels like a compromise, with all its quirks, but I keep using it whenever I write something long on my phone. Here is why I&#8217;m willing to live with it despite the issues.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI tried a weird 16-key keyboard, and it made me rethink phone typing<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">26 letters, but only 16 keys?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-does-the-gboard-39-s-backspace-swipe-gesture-do-and-why-do-i-love-it\">\n                        What does the Gboard&#8217;s backspace swipe gesture do, and why do I love it?<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gboard&#8217;s &#8216;undo&#8217; gesture is a compromise I&#8217;m willing to live with https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/gboards-undo-gesture-is-a-compromise-im-willing-to-live-with\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-28&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/smartphone-screen-featuring-the-gboard-keyboard-a-text-bubble-with-highlighted-text-and-a-floating-undo-button.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-228595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228597,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595\/revisions\/228597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}