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

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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

I believe for new installs it defaults to on

This is true. I started fresh with an iPhone 14, no restore from backup, no sign-in to iCloud, and slide-to-type was enabled.

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

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Does the iPhone not have an easy way to switch between keyboards? I just swipe left/right on the space bar to switch between Norwegian and English keyboards - but my phone isn't an iphone.

If you have several languages configured, there's a globe icon that lets you switch between keyboards. It's still a step down from Android that seems to just detect the language even if you switch mid-sentence.

iOS autodetects and automatically switches languages as you described. The globe icon is just for switching key layouts. Language is independent of key layout.

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

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I own an iPhone 12 mini since its inception and I am 44 years old. You described exactly my problems. Somewhere on the road something broke, either me or the user interface. Also, the most painful breaking change for me is the fact that in safari the url bar is placed at the bottom since a while but I keep looking after it at the top of the screen while I type, even if there's nothing there, just something that resembles a dynamic dropdown list based on whatever I think I type. My brain can't seem to be able to accept and memorize the fact that the url bar was moved at the bottom, just above the keyboard.

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

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I own an iPhone 12 mini since its inception and I am 44 years old. You described exactly my problems. Somewhere on the road something broke, either me or the user interface. Also, the most painful breaking change for me is the fact that in safari the url bar is placed at the bottom since a while but I keep looking after it at the top of the screen while I type, even if there's nothing there, just something that resem…

I recently found out that you can move it back to the top by pressing the two little AA on the left of the URL bar, then hit "Show Top Address Bar".

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

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Just today I was telling my mom to not get iPhone for next phone if I can’t figure it out I don’t want to think what will happen to her… select a word? No.. place a cursor in a particular place? No.. double tap to select everything? No…

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

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I own an iPhone 12 mini since its inception and I am 44 years old. You described exactly my problems. Somewhere on the road something broke, either me or the user interface. Also, the most painful breaking change for me is the fact that in safari the url bar is placed at the bottom since a while but I keep looking after it at the top of the screen while I type, even if there's nothing there, just something that resem…

You can move the URL bar back to top like the previous comment mentions, but if you do you will miss out on the nice swipe gestures on the url bar to switch tabs or open new ones.

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

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post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have several languages configured, there's a globe icon that lets you switch between keyboards. It's still a step down from Android that seems to just detect the language even if you switch mid-sentence.

iOS autodetects and automatically switches languages as you described. The globe icon is just for switching key layouts. Language is independent of key layout.

> "Auto-Correction uses your keyboard dictionary to spellcheck words as you type, automatically correcting misspelled words for you." [1]

This is also consistent with my experience.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207525

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