Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.
Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
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#72Simple UI is good. ML assist makes UI more complex.
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#73Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#74With the new UI updates here are a few things that I find help. • 1. Turning ON haptics in the keyboard section • 2. Turn OFF the “suggestions” • 3. Teach the autocorrect what I want to type. (Correct the same word a few times and you will trigger machine learning) • 4. Turn keyboard sound OFF • 5. Grab the cursor directly, don’t use the “spacebar trick” unless you’re going to move to the front or end of an input box…
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#75Now I’m on an SE2 and have typos constantly. I really thought it was just me, somehow.
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#76Yep! It’s so incredibly hard now. My error rate is extremely high and the prosperity of the iPhone to change things I’ve intended to type, and then do it three times in a row when I’m trying to force a specific word, drives me mad.
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#77When the iPhone launched, Apple talked a lot about how the typing system worked. What I remember is that it sounded like pretty simple lookups. As you typed, the software compared your word to, essentially, a weighted dictionary to guess what you were going to type next. If you typed “b” it was flummoxed. But if you typed “behav” it knew the next letter was almost certainly going to be “e” or “i” (for behavior). It m…
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#78When the iPhone launched, Apple talked a lot about how the typing system worked. What I remember is that it sounded like pretty simple lookups. As you typed, the software compared your word to, essentially, a weighted dictionary to guess what you were going to type next. If you typed “b” it was flummoxed. But if you typed “behav” it knew the next letter was almost certainly going to be “e” or “i” (for behavior). It m…
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#79I am on iPhone 13 Pro.
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#80Vent: I'm on Android and still haven't seen a well done cursor scroll. It usually requires me to select the position accurately which is PITA. I wish there was a simple way to do that.
Hold spacebar on android and drag lefg/right lets you cursor scroll really easily.