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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 andrekandre »

stouset wrote: post #263
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…

Worse is its insistence on continuing to autocorrect words I’ve just gone back to fix. If I type some letters, it autocorrects, I explicitly backspace to delete the autocorrection, and then type the exact same thing again , for the love of god stop “helpfully” correcting it for me again to the exact same thing I just undid. This seems like such low-hanging fruit it's baffling that it's still an issue and I say this a…

  > Worse is its insistence on continuing to autocorrect words I’ve just gone back to fix.
its really bad... so bad (except the pop-up suggestions) i just turned auto correct off completely a few versions ago

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

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Post by tomcam »

adastra22 wrote: post #138
vachina wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Also when I dictate using Siri, maybe becomes “may be”. Wtf

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

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Post by chadlavi »

deeblering4 wrote: post #321
hackmiester wrote: post #57

Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.

Thank you! Seems like a strange default, I wonder how many users actually slide to type?

I do, but as far as I understood slide to type was not the default, I recall having to go find a switch to turn it on when the first beta that included it came out

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

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Post by Normille »

andrekandre wrote: post #331
stouset wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worse is its insistence on continuing to autocorrect words I’ve just gone back to fix. If I type some letters, it autocorrects, I explicitly backspace to delete the autocorrection, and then type the exact same thing again , for the love of god stop “helpfully” correcting it for me again to the exact same thing I just undid. This seems like such low-hanging fruit it's baffling that it's still an issue and I say this a…

> Worse is its insistence on continuing to autocorrect words I’ve just gone back to fix. its really bad... so bad (except the pop-up suggestions) i just turned auto correct off completely a few versions ago

  >i just turned auto correct off completely a few versions ago...
I don;t use autocorrect at all. Never have. But I do use 'swipe-to-type' [or whatever it's called] on Android and run into the same annoyances, as it will also chooses the wrong word, for a swiped pattern, every time --no matter how often I correct it.

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

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Post by andrekandre »

Lio wrote: post #136
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.

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.

  >  I see lowercase and deliberate no punctuation as passive aggression.
interesting, why does it seem as passive aggression?

for me upper/lowercase just feels redundant and its simpler for me, but i guess some people can see it as annoying...

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

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Post by smcl »

justanorherhack wrote: post #299
smcl wrote: post #277

It's autocorrect that kills me - feels like they've got a boolean check[0] backwards, because my iPhone is constantly switching its/it's, well/we'll, ill/I'll and others to the wrong version. [0] - obviously there's no such code for autocorrect, I imagine it's just some AI soup now

Ill as in sick?

Yep so something like "Yesterday I was ill" would get changed to "Yesterday I was I'll" - it's not the end of the world, but it's definitely annoying.

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

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Post by Normille »

vachina wrote: post #110
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…

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.

Swipe-to-type on Yandex keyboard on Android had a similarly infuriating habit of "correcting" my English spelling to American. So I'd swipe c-o-l-o-u-r and it would insert 'color', c-e-n-t-r-e and it would insert 'center', etc. etc.

Oh.And this was with my phone set to 'UK English' and Yandex keyboard set to use 'System Language'. If I caught it in time, I could drag the suggested word off the suggestion bar, so it would be removed from future suggestions. But the yanks have mangled the English language so much, it was a Sisyphean task.

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

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Post by Normille »

mikro2nd wrote: post #214
adastra22 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And evidently I'm not allowed to swear. "Fuck" gets unfailingly "corrected" to "duck" -- even if I spell it out.

There's a blast from the past. Remember on the old Nokia dumbphones with T9 [0] predictive text. Belatedly realising you'd insulted somebody by calling them a 'duck' or an 'aunt'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

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