Nah the typing on the iPhone ist really bad, the predictions are total crap. Android text entering is so so much better - unbelievable
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?
#412Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.
Super late to the reply party but another thank you. I thought I was losing my mind, with like a 40% accuracy rate. Im up to like 90% just turning this on.
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#413Thank you for sharing, I've had similar frustrations since the iPhone 11. The only constant I've been able to compare against is that my keyboard typing has not declined in accuracy.
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iOS autodetects and automatically switches languages as you described. The globe icon is just for switching key layouts. Language is independent of key layout.
If iOS has language detection like that, it's been broken for Finnish for years.
https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype-ke...
QuickType Keyboard: Multilingual Typing
English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Hindi
Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
If iOS has language detection like that, it's been broken for Finnish for years.
https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype-ke... QuickType Keyboard: Multilingual Typing English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Hindi
Looks pretty half-assed implementation to me. If they have autocorrect for Finnish, it shouldn't be too difficult to do quick lookups for both Finnish and English. And everyone knows that it's Autocorrect's carefully designed brand image to screw up, switching languages would allow more creative mistakes.
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#417I've always used MessagEase (both on Android and iPhone). It is a keyboard layout that was originally designed for the Palm Pilot, and it is optimised for typing with one finger. I don't use any sort of autocompletion, yet I'm usually the fastest typist in the room. More info: http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php
Yeah. It's a shame that the project is abandoned, bugs aren't being fixed and the source code isn't open.
Yeah, I really love this keyboard, if only it was still alive, didn't find a successor
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#418When 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…
many versions of iOS ago - if you deleted the autocorrect word, it suggested above the keys the original word it replaced, which made it very easy to get back to where you originally were.
they then removed this a few years ago.
utterly baffling how over-engineered and regressive it has become
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#419Re: Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
#420Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.
This should be part of the iOS setup screen: "For how many years have you been using iOS devices?" and automatically disable it if the answer is superior to 10!
It's not the default as long as you are carrying forward your settings from phone to phone. (That is, there was no "flag day" when it was turned on for everyone, afaik.)