Google recently rolled out a new Gboard beta update (v7.8), and although the update doesn’t introduce any noticeable new change, the app’s code hints at the arrival of multiple new features such as the ability to delete search history, offline voice typing and better clipboard management among others.
Strings spotted in the app’s code suggest that Gboard might soon let users delete their search history by removing at least the past three queries listed in the drop-down menu.
Offline Voice Typing
Gboard is also working on a feature called ‘on-device typing’ that will require users to download voice models to make voice typing faster by moving all the speech-to-text processing from online servers to the smartphone itself. Also, users will be able to select the speech-to-text language.
Lastly, the latest Gboard beta update brings a new sand-colored keyboard theme which has a slightly pinkish undertone to it, which resembles the ‘Not Pink’ variant of the Pixel 3.
