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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 tiahura »

blondin wrote: post #28
wrycoder wrote: post #18

Totally 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-...

+1 for cursor scrolling. the URL/address bar on mobile is a perfect case in point. or any single-line text box for that matter. as it is, this is a useless widget because of scrolling and text selection. we need a shift of paradigm here. the text box is not working on mobile.

+1

Doesn’t Tim Cook ever use cursor scrolling? It’s damned near useless. I usually wind up just backspacing from the end to get to where I need to edit.

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

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Post by kyriakos »

devilbunny wrote: post #23
markus_zhang wrote: post #11

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.

Been a while since I've used Android, and it's no longer available (you'll have to find an old .apk, maybe it would still work), but Swype was hands-down the best phone keyboard I've ever used. It had an editing keyboard layout that allowed single-character movement of the cursor, easily selected by Swyping from the Swype key to something else (space bar, maybe?). Swype-X, Swype-C, Swype-V for cut, copy, and paste, a…

I'm super happy with Microsoft SwiftKey. With friends and family we type in a dialect which is not an official language but after using it for a bit it picked up most of the spelling I use and autocompletes sentences with good accuracy.

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

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Post by kyriakos »

awinter-py wrote: post #22

when ios launched it was competing with blackberry, a 55wpm mobile keyboard that I could use without looking. now it's competing with droid, and most droid devices are lower-end so whatever the experience on flagship devices, it's going to be much worse on average not what you asked but: I recently booted an android 10 pixel 1, 5ish years old, 3 OS versions behind current, and keyboard input was starkly better than m…

Which keyboard app are you using? It can't be the same on both

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

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Post by etrautmann »

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.

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

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Post by tails4e »

fire wrote: post #32
markus_zhang wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Doesn't work on my phone. I'll check it out in product forum.

iirc this is a google keyboard feature specifically; it was added sometime after the pixel 3 released, I think?

The keyboard I have is Microsoft SwiftKey, on a Huawei P30, so could be multiple different ways of getting it.

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

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Post by roguesherlock »

markus_zhang wrote: post #11

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.

iPhone 7 with its 3D Touch had the best cursor scroll tbh. You hard press your thumb anywhere on the keyboard and use it like a mousepad to scroll around. I’m still mad that we don’t have that anymore.

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

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Post by LeoPanthera »

There's something weird going on because it seems to get worse over time, but if you do "Reset Keyboard Dictionary" then it magically gets better again, for a few weeks or so, before getting worse again.

I have no idea what's going on.

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

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Post by awinter-py »

kyriakos wrote: post #44
awinter-py wrote: post #22

when ios launched it was competing with blackberry, a 55wpm mobile keyboard that I could use without looking. now it's competing with droid, and most droid devices are lower-end so whatever the experience on flagship devices, it's going to be much worse on average not what you asked but: I recently booted an android 10 pixel 1, 5ish years old, 3 OS versions behind current, and keyboard input was starkly better than m…

Which keyboard app are you using? It can't be the same on both

default system keyboard
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