Google’s been working on an undo button for Gboard since at least summer 2023.
While still not broadly available, the button has finally entered testing for Gboard beta users.
The button adds undo and redo controls for your Gboard edit history.
Mistakes happen. You could say that they’re just a consequence of being human, but as we’ve all seen very clearly over the past year, AI makes plenty of mistakes, too. That’s one of the reasons we love apps that offer ample opportunity for us to make corrections, like the open-source HeliBoard keyboard and its handy undo button. But if you’d rather not go the third-party route with your Android keyboard, you’re in luck, as Google’s own Gboard is picking up a very similar undo tool.
Google’s been thinking about bringing an undo button to Gboard for a while now. Development progress on the button was first spotted a solid 18 months ago, but so far there hasn’t been any way for you try it out for yourself. And while there still isn’t in the main Gboard release, testers signed up for Google’s beta program have started to notice the undo button’s arrival in the new 14.9.06.x build, according to 9to5Google.