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that seems like a lot of battery for just a keyboard
It runs a local LLM for auto correct and voice to text.
that seems like overkill
No, that's a feature. Google voice to text will send everything to google servers.
Weird, I put my phone in airplane mode and verbally typed this out
You probably have this off https://www.guidingtech.com/wp-content/uploads/Turn-Off-Gboard-Toggles3.jpg
That is turned off but it must have defaulted to that. I don't recall ever seeing this option before. In fact I don't think I've ever even been in that menu, lol. The other options in there were turned on, were turned on.
Mine is off too. I'm usually too busy to bother with worrying too much about Google stealing my data. I've been using Google for so long that it's too late for me.
Save yourselves.
Yeah, it's the one real negative I have with it and something a lot of reviews for it mention.
Tried HeliBoard?
HeliBoard is soooo good. Seconded. A lot of FOSS keyboards out there need.... A little more polish ^^;
Data harvesting?
Futo is Foss and offline. I switched to it recently from Swiftkey. Before that, apps would always restart if I switched windows or tabbed back to home screen and I assumed it was just my phone being lame. But since switching, that happens a lot less. So I can only assume futo is using less resources.
They aren't true foss, but 'source available'. I don't remember why exactly (probably for licensing or something) and the typical user won't know what that means nor care, but it is something to be aware of.
I like and use Grayjay, but the keyboard was not up to my standards, personally. Can't find any foss/adjacent keyboards to come close to SwiftKey at all. I've been using it since release like 16+ years ago (?) or something, and every time I try something else, it's just bad for a bunch of reasons.