I am exactly in the same boat. I switched from the 12 mini to the 13 mini and I think it's a little better but maybe that's placebo.
Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
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#132I 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.
You can do this! Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Auto-Correction [off] & Check Spelling [on]. Reading a lot of the complaints here, they really need to create some sort of onboarding for the keyboard and make it more transparent what the switches do in the settings menu. I was pretty pissed when they launched slide to type, until I played with these and found that turning predictive off feels waaay better. It took…
Guess it shows how long it’s been since I've even been in those settings, last I remember there was just like two or three options. But realizing with auto correct off it doesn’t auto capitalize I like I’d expect. There’s still some improvements to be had
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#133Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.
One more vote. This seems to help. Thank you for the suggestion. Now I am wondering if I should also turn off "Predictive" in the settings.
I just disabled both, also disabled keyboard sound and enabled haptics. A much better typing experience!
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#134Commas and periods are a great part of my native language (of course they are essential in many languages), yet I couldn't find a way to set up comma and period to show on my dad's new work iPhone the way they appear on Android -- on the first page of the keyboard. Pagination is required to access not only periods and commas, but also numbers and to some extent accents (čšž via press-and-hold). The mentioned cursor-t…
I think you're supposed to press on the .?123 key, keep holding, and then slide your finger to the comma or period. I assume pressing space twice inserts a period, too.
Disclaimer: it's been a while since I used an iPhone, this might be out of date.
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#135I 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.
I had that feeling on Windows Phone years ago.
Gboard on Android works pretty well most of the time though.
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#136When 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.
I normally wouldn’t say anything but since it’s the topic of conversation, I hate that. I see lowercase and deliberate no punctuation as passive aggression.
Depends on your circle of friends I guess.
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#137Writing on an iPhone is the only activity I have been doing rigorously day in, day out for 10+ years without getting better at it.
With the old 3-press phones, I would have been invincible and able to write with the phone still in my pocket.
So frustrating.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#138When 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…
Sometimes I’d type out a correct spelling of a word and it’d correct it to another word that’s totally unrelated to the context of the sentence, like your Quake example. Infuriating when in a rush.
For me it always turns “well” into “we’ll”. I have no idea why. I rarely type in the second person, and grammatically they’re not substitutes. It’s maddening.
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#139When 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.
You can disable predictive text?!? Teach me your ways!
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#140For how big fingers are, it does a pretty good job. Word selection is just a long press. A long press on space works well for moving the cursor. Definitely better than the loupe we used to have.
Gboard manages to do a good job on a 1.4" watch screen.