Gboard has just added emojis based on your face and recently it has started to display the clipboard function, but as always, there are more surprises waiting for you around the corner. In XDA have revealed one of them: the ability to delete text at different speeds.
Deleting one or two characters in a text is very easy: press the delete key and it’s over. Deleting large amounts of text, however, is more difficult. It is possible that the speed at which it is erased is very slow, making the process soporific, or too fast, erasing more than necessary. In the future, it will be you who controls the erase speed with a slider.
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Erase speed
The best way to see this test running is in the following video, live and direct. Basically, it is a new gesture in which by sliding from the erase button you can adjust the erase speed.
When doing so, a slider appears that marks the erase speed. The lower the speed, the slower it erases, and vice versa. Gboard already has a gesture on the erase button, but for now, what it does is a select text that will be deleted after you release the button. This new test changes the behaviour, so what you control is the erase speed.
As always, it is possible that it is one of many tests that Google carries out in its applications and in the end, it ends up in nothing, or it is possible that we see it activated in a few weeks or months. With Google, you never know, so if you’re one of those who ends up erasing more and this feature interests you, stay tuned to your screen and keep your Google keyboard update.
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