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.
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?
#12Vent: 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.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#13I think it might be worse, especially the cursor stuff, but also consider that your iPhone 12 mini has a smaller keyboard than the SE, since it’s not quite as wide. You might try enabling haptic feedback which is new in ios16.
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#14Vent: 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.
Thanks. Doesn't work on my phone. I'll check it out in product forum.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#15Hello you might be interested in some slide out keyboards Android like astro
https://www.androidauthority.com/keyboard-phones-845839/
You can even root some of them and install lineagos
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#16With 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 (treat it like PGUP/PGDWN)
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#17I agree something feels different, I could usually mitigate it with 3D Touch but that was changed a few phones back:
https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/my-favorite-iph...
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#18Totally agree about cursor scrolling. Half the time, it has no idea where my finger is.
Since I discovered Apple’s slide-to-type[0], I rarely have to key the letters, since the algo guesses more accurately than when I actually use individual keystrokes.
Also, with stt, the delete erases the whole word, so corrections are faster, too.
[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/how-to-use-the-iphones-new-...
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#19I turned off autocorrect a few years back, and noticed no change in recent years with that turned off. But the autocorrect experience was very bad and in my view caused more errors than it fixed
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#20I wish there was an autocorrect for obvious errors, not changing context of a word like hell -> he'll, well -> we'll, nickel -> Nicole (this is a weird one), and many more. Better yet, it should just underline the word and let me manually correct it like software used to before everyone tried to do ai nonsense. Apparently that red underline is part of the OS but I don't recall actually seeing it.