If you are a Gboard user who has recently been frustrated by the fact that your typing on the fly generates an embarrassed mess, take heart: you are not alone and you do not go crazy. Google confirmed that he was aware of the bug affecting his virtual keyboard and that he was on the case. In the meantime, there is a simple solution on which users may have already fallen.

A number of Gboard users have sent us an e-mail regarding the slip-type bug, which is not limited to individual phones. Basically, affected users see extremely inaccurate words and suggestions appear when using the keyboard typing function. Here is an example that has drawn attention to Reddit:

If you had this problem with Gboard and you tried to stop the application or restart your phone, get comfortable. In his statement to 9to5Google Confirming the bug, Google also said that taking one of these actions will solve the problems for good. (I'm a SwiftKey man myself, but when I went to Gboard, I did not notice anything awesome about my Pixel 2 XL.)

Some people are wondering if this is related to the recent battery saver bug that hit some phones running Android Pie, but that does not seem to be the case. Some phones that were not affected by the battery saver bug are affected by the Gboard bug.

If you are afflicted by this problem, try stopping the application or restarting your phone. Let us know in the comments section if this fixes things for you.