Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 422 posts

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

#51

Post by mathieuh »

snowwrestler wrote: post #39

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…

Do people actually send messages to each other like that? I modified all the precomposed replies on my watch to remove capitals and punctuation. Using capitals and punctuation raises the register of the message for me, and 99% of the time if I’m sending a text it’s to friends or family.

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

#52

Post by odysseus »

mathieuh wrote: post #51
snowwrestler wrote: post #39

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…

Do people actually send messages to each other like that? I modified all the precomposed replies on my watch to remove capitals and punctuation. Using capitals and punctuation raises the register of the message for me, and 99% of the time if I’m sending a text it’s to friends or family.

What does "raises the register" in this context mean?

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

#53

Post by mickelsen »

summerlight wrote: post #36

I've been using iPhone >10 years and cannot agree more. One example: from iOS 7 (that flat UI), I began to make much more frequent typos than ever before. Before that, I didn't make much typo before the update even without looking at the keyboard but not anymore after the update. What I heard is that Apple did extensive studies on usability of virtual keyboard when it's launching iPhone and as a result keyboard visua…

Nope, you are not alone. I noticed this change starting with iOS 7 too and compared side-by-side back in those years. I could type very quickly with either one or both hands, and made almost no mistakes. So yeah, it seemed that they changed the position or the targets of the 'keys' because I wasn't hitting the right ones in iOS 7, usually shifted by one letter to the side but my mind sort of calibrated for the rest of the word. Then I switched between different iPhone sizes over the years, so all my experiences later were different. This still keeps happening to me but now the autocorrect on the phone gets the word I was intended to type, so it's less annoying but long gone are those days of keyboard perfection.

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

#54

Post by dopidopHN »

odysseus wrote: post #52
mathieuh wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people actually send messages to each other like that? I modified all the precomposed replies on my watch to remove capitals and punctuation. Using capitals and punctuation raises the register of the message for me, and 99% of the time if I’m sending a text it’s to friends or family.

What does "raises the register" in this context mean?

Register of speak I suppose ? Formal, vulgar, technical, casual... I might be wrong English is not my first language. But that would fits nicely. I understand that as going from casual to formal, for instance.

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

#55

Post by hot_gril »

So it's not just me. I went from a 5 to a 6 to a 12 mini. My typing is horrible on the 6 or the 12. IDK if it's the screen size or what. It's not about getting used to it; it's been years for me. When I occasionally pick up the old 5, it's instantly easy for me to type again. So it's definitely the phone's fault, not mine. I'm 26 years old. However, the cursor was always impossible to control, no change there.

Also, it's stupid that the new phones don't have headphone jacks, the gestures they used to replace the home button are wack, and the 5 was the perfect size. The sole reason I stopped using it was AT&T dropped support. Usability was more important than CPU/camera/whatever strength.

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

#56

Post by rattus_rattus »

odysseus wrote: post #52
mathieuh wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people actually send messages to each other like that? I modified all the precomposed replies on my watch to remove capitals and punctuation. Using capitals and punctuation raises the register of the message for me, and 99% of the time if I’m sending a text it’s to friends or family.

What does "raises the register" in this context mean?

It means the formality level of text. I think that person was saying that within their family chats, they perceive that using capitals and punctuation makes the messages feel unnecessarily/inappropriately formal.

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

#58

Post by webmobdev »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #34

My name is not an English word and it’s been years but the phones (3 iPhones) have never been able to predict it correctly ever. They always predict some English word — even longer and shorter. I must have typed it a trillion times on my phone by now. But no, still not. It’s the same name on my iCloud and hence on my phone. In contact book obviously. In all the email accounts I’ve added. I have tried correcting it an…

I always advise everyone that the first thing they should do on any on-screen-display keyboards is to disable autocorrect and suggestions. This makes it easier to type, avoid the irritation of sub-par corrections and best of all turns of keylogging (when all these "extra" features are enabled (as then their ToS allows them an excuse to store everything you type in their cloud, to "improve their service").

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

#59

Post by dopidopHN »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #34

My name is not an English word and it’s been years but the phones (3 iPhones) have never been able to predict it correctly ever. They always predict some English word — even longer and shorter. I must have typed it a trillion times on my phone by now. But no, still not. It’s the same name on my iCloud and hence on my phone. In contact book obviously. In all the email accounts I’ve added. I have tried correcting it an…

wait. I really, really don't care about my phone so I never looked that up.

But my 2016 Iphone SE "learned" french. I text in French and English on a 40/60 split. Auto-correct will feed me results in both language. I assumed that every time I was correcting autocorrect to be able to type a french words, that was going to a small DB somewhere on the phone.

It's not the case? Like.. then where are those french autocorrected words coming from?

And to your original point : why the hell is not name not memorized by now?

Post reply on HN