Does anyone else accidentally hit the Return key too often while typing? I feel like the space bar should be longer on the right side.
I type way too many periods and hit return too often. Space bar should be bigger.
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?
#342So 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,…
Still using my SE 2016 here for these reasons (it has the same body as the 5 and 5S). After using this phone for 5+ years, I've gotten so good at texting on it that I don't even use autocorrect! And it has a headphone jack.
Something has gone horribly rotten in the space of smartphones in the last 5 years.
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh nice, I never thought of that. I would love to see the list of these unacceptable words, I can almost understand it not wanting to type out "fuck" but iirc they were also not autocorrecting "abortion" at one point which is a little ... conservative
They put those various in because there was a time when it would autocorrect the other way duck would become fuck if misspelled kind of thing. And usually a misplaced duck is less harmful in a polite/business setting than a misplaced fuck. “I saw a fuck on the road on the way to work” in work chat is a different type of embarrassment than “what the duck were you thinking you ducking idiot” in a personal text.
oh yeah I get it, I’d just love to see the list of words out of sheer curiousity
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
> I don;t use autocorrect at all.
We're gonna need to see some proof.
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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.
Nit: that's the first person plural, not the second person.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
They put those various in because there was a time when it would autocorrect the other way duck would become fuck if misspelled kind of thing. And usually a misplaced duck is less harmful in a polite/business setting than a misplaced fuck. “I saw a fuck on the road on the way to work” in work chat is a different type of embarrassment than “what the duck were you thinking you ducking idiot” in a personal text.
oh yeah I get it, I’d just love to see the list of words out of sheer curiousity
I'd assume it must be somewhere in the source, so perhaps someone has already decompiled it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-apple-kill-list-what-your-... might be a place to start
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#348When 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…
Just one more core in their neural engine and maybe the AI will get smart enough to let you fix words it autocorrected erroneously…
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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…
Sorry for your loss but I’m glad you’re getting better soon and I hope you feel much stronger and more confident in the next few days and I will be praying for the best of both worlds and I know that I love you and I will always be here if you ever wanna come over and see my little baby girl and we can hang out and play games and I will be happy for the rest of my life
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#350too much data. I have an android phone and swiping constantly produces the wrong words unless I swipe very slowly. it was great many years ago, i noticed that a lot of the words it suggests are words other people might be using. so I feel they are training it with dataset from a large swat of users and that's the issue. if they limited it to the most common words in dictionary then words you typed, it would be great. I suspect this is how the original worked but they got the idea to make it better by training it with "all the words"