I just wish I could make iOS turn off the stupid "." shortcut they attach to the spacebar. All my google searches look like "how.do i.find.a better.phone"?
Is Settings->General->Keyboard->"." Shortcut on?
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?
#92Yep! 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"?
I'm continuously amazed at how many HN posters are posting from their phone. What a nightmare.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#93If machine learning worked, my iPhone could take a long string of letters and see that I’m invariably putting an “n” between words where a space should be and fix it for me. Typing on my iPhone is my worst daily tech experience. My worst weekly tech experience is my Amazon FireTV needing to be rebooted every time my cable internet blinks. That it can’t recover gracefully, like every other device in the house — includ…
> Amazon FireTV needing to be rebooted every time my cable internet blinks
Returned the Fire stick and purchased a CCWGTV (Chromecast with Google TV) for this very reason.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#94When 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…
> For example it just tried to sub-in “Quaker” for “quality” in the previous sentence. Why??
Do you have an app called Quaker something installed? I had to disable predictive text because after installing the “YouBike 1.0” app my phone refused to let me type the number 10. It always got replaced with 1.0 no matter how many times I tried to correct it.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#95It's not just you. I'm in my early 20's and I've noticed typing has gotten considerably worse over time. Me and my friends used to be able to text each other without looking at our phones while holding a conversation, but now it's a lot harder. I've had to rely on slide-to-type more and more instead.
The keyboards in the different iOSes are definitely of varying quality.
It would be lovely to see the ios6/7 keyboard available as an installable option on modern iOS.
Even with the modern regressions it’s still way better than the Graphene keyboard.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#96I just wish I could make iOS turn off the stupid "." shortcut they attach to the spacebar. All my google searches look like "how.do i.find.a better.phone"?
If I’ve interpreted this correctly and this isn’t sarcasm, there is a Setting under Settings>General>Keyboard named [”.” shortcut”], that should disable this behavior.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#97When 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…
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Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#98Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#99When 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…
>At some point I recall Apple announcing that they had switched autocorrect to a full machine learning implementation. >For example it just tried to sub-in “Quaker” for “quality” in the previous sentence. Why?? We need to organize and get a huge number of people to start sending text messages one day, using the autocorrect as it works, and not correcting the autocorrect . Just let it put whatever words it wants in th…
> Sorry for the inconvenience caused to your order. Our customer is aware of the situation in the area and will be able to help resolve it.
Starting with only the word sorry. interesting that it went down a customer service path. It started suggesting corporate speak.
> Nature is a religion that has been around since ancient times but it is now being used to promote a culture of diversity in society that has not yet developed.
Starting with nature. Wow, deep stuff.
> I think you should do some research before making a post about the new game. I have played a lot with my wife but she doesn’t have a clue.
Don’t have a wife.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#100When 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…
> For example it just tried to sub-in “Quaker” for “quality” in the previous sentence. Why?? Do you have an app called Quaker something installed? I had to disable predictive text because after installing the “YouBike 1.0” app my phone refused to let me type the number 10. It always got replaced with 1.0 no matter how many times I tried to correct it.
Try Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.
Map “10” to “10”.
It’s the only way I could get iOS to stop correcting fucking to ducking. (Lol, it just tried to correct ducking to fucking and I had to override it.)