Aw, man...

Yet another update, and the problems I have with Google Docs are still there. Im a huge fan of the Google Docs via desktop browser, but this app is so slow on my iPad as to be unusable. Keystrokes take so long to register that they lag almost a sentence behind, and Im not a speedy typist.

Granted, my iPad is not the latest or greatest, but Pages and Word dont lag like that, nor do Notes, Keep, or Ulysses. What gives?

And whats with the unnecessary extra row of functions on the keyboard? It takes up too much space, and there is blank space on the iOS keyboard where those the functions could be put. Pages, Word, and Ulysses do that, why cant Docs?

The outline feature nice, but not much use to me if I cant type with it the app. Also, why no document header/footer or pagination? Why is there both a "page preview" and a "page layout view" that appear to do the same thing? Why does the keyboard cover the bottom paragraph or so of text when I tap the edit icon, instead of the text scrolling up and out of the way?

The desktop web version of Docs is maybe my favorite word processor of all time, but this iOS app is disappointing and uncharacteristic of all the good stuff Google offers. Its just... well, janky and slow.

Please, Google, fix it. I really want to use Docs, but in this statement Docs is seriously outclassed by its competitors.

Joe in NC about Google Docs: Sync, Edit, Share, v1.2016.162