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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?

#71

Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.

This helped my typing. Does slide to type change the target area of the keys? With it on it seems like I am hitting keys on the line below I am targeting. With it off, many fewer typos.

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

#74

With 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…

Just made these changes and the improvement is insaaaane. The most important one IMO is turning off “Predictive” typing. Leaves more room for keys and screen and I never tapped those suggestions anyway. This feels so much better. Thank you.

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

#75
I distinctly remember being blown away by typing on an iPod touch when it first launched: it seemed almost impossible to make a mistake. The keys plus whatever other software (predictive text?) worked incredibly well.

Now I’m on an SE2 and have typos constantly. I really thought it was just me, somehow.

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

#76

Yep! 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.

Like when you're trying to type "propensity", and it autocorrects to "prosperity"?

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

#77

When 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…

I recently switched from Android to Apple, and this was a big difference that I noticed. I think Google/Android still use a "simple lookup" dictionary (or similar) that updates based on your own behavior, while Apple's suggestions are sometimes non-sensical, and harder to correct (happens to me when typing domains ending in ".xyz" a lot - they get autocorrected to ".cuz")

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

#78

When 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…

High Quakers are more fun.

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

#80
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Vent: 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.

This is also true for iOS. It used to be hold any key to move cursor, then they got rid of that functionality. I found out last week you can hold space bar! It's back!!!
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