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Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by Tor3 »

AndyMcConachie wrote: post #240
deepGem wrote: post #122

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This gets exacerbated if you are using a different language, like we Indians do. Type Hindi/Kannada/Tamil in English. Your autocorrect/predict word steers in the direction of most frequently used language and screws up all your pure english comms. Can still live with autocorrect but absolutely hate this ML based predictive nonsense, and I have completely disabled it.

I have yet to encounter a predictive text system that handles more than one language well. I type a mix of Dutch and English on my phone, because that's how I talk. But there is no reliable way to say "use both". It's one or the other. The is one problem with letting Americans design things. They don't understand that the rest of the world regularly speaks more than one language, and that in different environments th…

That. Auto-correction is just about impossible for me. I write in two or three languages, and sometimes mix them. In addition to that, the suggestions, even in the correct language, are always 100% wrong. Auto-correction has always, without exception, been in the way for me, so that one gets switched off first thing.

It's actually bliss to write Japanese.. even with my limited ability to do that. The only thing that pops up is suggestions for which kanji or whatever to use for what I entered. Works smoothly and fast.

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by jacquesc »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #91
jacquesc wrote: post #83

I just wish I could make iOS turn off the stupid "." shortcut they attach to the spacebar. All my google searches look like "how.do i.find.a better.phone"?

Is Settings->General->Keyboard->"." Shortcut on?

I have this shortcut disabled. It still rears it's ugly head on the browser location field (and many other places).

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by Maxburn »

This post inspired me to at least try turning off auto correction. I feel like it is fighting me at times and now I intend to find out if it ever really helped me and I didn't notice it.

I wonder if the default slide to type being ON has any bearing on this?

Turning auto capitalization off too, that I definitely fight with and it rarely makes a difference.

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by anon_123g987 »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #258
anon_123g987 wrote: post #180

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Your comments are not visible because you were shadowbanned years ago. You should create a new account.

atkailash's comment is visible to me.

Because I vouched for it. Turn on "showdead" in your settings and look at his profile.

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by jacquesc »

dereg wrote: post #144
greggman3 wrote: post #118

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OMG!!!! I thought I was somehow actually pressing period for years! I didn't feel like I was but I never noticed I wasn't actually pressing it and it was instead auto inserting periods. WTF! Thanks!!!!

IM PRAYING THIS FIXES IT. I really cannot express how annoyed I’ve been at the search bar keyboard in Safari. This has been such a huge sticking point.

Sorry, it won't. Sure seems like it should though right?

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by smcl »

It's autocorrect that kills me - feels like they've got a boolean check[0] backwards, because my iPhone is constantly switching its/it's, well/we'll, ill/I'll and others to the wrong version.

[0] - obviously there's no such code for autocorrect, I imagine it's just some AI soup now

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by smcl »

fullmoon wrote: post #225
mikro2nd wrote: post #214

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And evidently I'm not allowed to swear. "Fuck" gets unfailingly "corrected" to "duck" -- even if I spell it out.

Adding a text replacement from “fuck” to “fuck” (General - Keyboards - Text Replacement) allows you to swear again.

Oh nice, I never thought of that. I would love to see the list of these unacceptable words, I can almost understand it not wanting to type out "fuck" but iirc they were also not autocorrecting "abortion" at one point which is a little ... conservative

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by smcl »

anon_123g987 wrote: post #275
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

atkailash's comment is visible to me.

Because I vouched for it. Turn on "showdead" in your settings and look at his profile.

I looked through their comment history, I couldn't see anything too controversial around the time this kicked started. Weird, maybe they can ask @dang to see what's up?

Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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Post by EvanAnderson »

I was using an iOS 6 device as a daily driver until April, 2022, then moved to iOS 15.

The typing experience on iOS 6, and cursor placement/word selection, is so much better than iOS 15. I hate typing on my iOS 15 device. The whole “hold the spacebar” mechanic is inferior to how cursor positioning worked in earlier versions.

(I had a short stint using a “burner” Android phone back in September and that did make me pine for iOS. Even iOS 15’s keyboard was better than whatever Android version that phone was using.)

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