Ah yes, previously, the much-submitted, but took 2 months to get any traction, video:
iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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Long-time iOS user here. My motivation for iPhone has always been "you pay more for fewer features and customization, but the UX is more polished." For the past 5-ish years, the UX has consistently gotten considerably worse. Not just the usual things like the horrible keyboard and atrocious Siri capabilities, it's all the stuff that used to just work . Nothing deal-breaking by itself, but all together feels like deat…
Also add Liquid Glass, it strains the eyes. Even siri got worse, when I say call now it does some location based search, and calls sonebody, when near home it is a doctor, when on the other side of the river it is a flower shop, at othe rplaces other random non-contacts, with a contact having the sting it used for search, as her nickname is always part of the called person… It used to work flawlessly as expected… I w…
The most frustrating aspect of Siri's quality decline is that super-basic things inexplicably stop working. For years I have been able to say "call " and Siri called my wife. A couple weeks ago she started dialing another contact I haven't talked to in 15 years with a similarly-pronounced name (but different spelling). I had to delete the old contact to stop that behavior from happening.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…
> "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" Maybe your "social group". If your friends refuse to talk to you because of the cell phone brand you use, I have bad news for you: They might not really be great friends.
Yes. Mean girls at school are mean. If everyone has the same color bubble they’ll just find something else to be mean about.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#84Android: Here's the phone; knock yourself out Apple: Father knows best (but Father is getting old and sometimes forgets things) Windows: If only we understood what the ancestors knew
More like:
Apple: Father died a while back, but Step-Father is here now and he doesn't love you.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…
> Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. Android phones can't use iMessage because Apple never opened it up, contrary to what Steve Jobs was hinting at back when it was released. Nowadays I believe you can get a blue bubble when chatting from an Android with an iPhone user by using RCS / JOYN.
Pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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In chat on the iphone, ios users see fellow ios users with blue bubbles, but see android peasants with green bubble. There's social pressure to "be blue like everyone else" and the author caved in.
The social pressure is also technological. RCS integration was a big improvement but it's still not up to par. It's not "ha, greens are poor", it's "android arnold can't be in the group chat because it'll fuck it all up"
The tiny company behind Signal, and a bunch of even smaller companies making messengers, manage to make their app work just fine on iOS and android (and most of them on desktop too, some even in the browser).
For some reason, the (second) richest company on the planet, which has a messenger app, is incapable of making an android app for their messenger and chat protocol.
There's a technological issue, and it's nothing to do with RCS or SMS, it's that iMessage for some reason doesn't have an android version.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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> I shit you not there is a large percentage of people in the US that think Android phones are not capable of sending pcitures and videos. Source? Would love to read this one lol
It was kind of true a very long time ago except in potato quality. And if you were out of data, but was connected on WiFi instead, you actually couldn't. And you still can't text a large video across the Android / iPhone chasm, can you?
‘Potato quality’ ahahahahahahhaa I hope this was iPhone autocorrect to prove the point.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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Their software quality really went downhill in recent years, really hope whoever comes in after Cook treats it as priority
Recent? They have been last to get Widgets. They don't have apps I use (terminals, emulators, pulse wave generators). Not to mention Gemini AI is actually really nice for scanning a screen and doing actions with it. Apple is always 2nd place or worse. Except marketing, they are #1.
Their hardware is world class. Software? Not so much.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#89Google keyboard, anyone?
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#90As a lifelong Android user (in the EU, where Apple hegemony is not as strong) I always saw Apple as the "pay more for more polished ecosystem UX" option. So it always surprises me when things that are trivial on Android/Linux are sticking points on iOS/macOS. Worse, it seems that proprietary means you can't do anything to fix them yourself.
And to be clear 'do anything to fix them yourself' is as simple as install a third-party keyboard from the official Play Store, if you had such an issue as this with the default 'GBoard'.