[frutiger]

Wow. Both of these things happen to me all the time, and somehow exactly as you’ve described.

It won’t be just one space that’s been replaced with “.”s but several in a row.

The trailing “m” is something I often hit as I do the double “ “ to get the “.” and then backspace over the final space but often hit the “m” and tap “send”/“submit” without reviewing.

Speaking of which, it would be nice if it could trim the last trailing “ “ when leaving focus of the text entry if it had been entered due to a doubled “ “ to obtain a “.”.

[foobarkey]

Can confirm the . thing happens to me also half.of.my.google.searches.are.like.this so I have even learned to be cautious that the last word does not look like a tld :)

[nlawalker]

I read somewhere that this happens primarily in a browser address bar, because they've tuned the keyboard in that context to strongly prefer dots over spaces. I'm not sure if that's true but I have also found that it happens to me the most when doing multi-word Google searches from the address bar, and not anywhere else.

Also, I used a couple alternative keyboards a few years back, but I have found that some point some iOS update within the last few years made the stock keyboard the best for me. When I type on the gBoard on my wife's phone it might as well be dvorak, everything comes out gibberish.