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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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Post by wilkystyle »

lynndotpy wrote: post #70
wilkystyle wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually a necessary feature for a touchscreen keyboard to feel usable, and it's been in iOS since day one. The problem is that it has gotten not only much worse over time at predicting which tap zones to enlarge, but it also feels more aggressive. For example, tapping the shift button on the iOS keyboard enlarges the Enter/Return key's touch area so much that I am unable to immediately tap the microphone ico…

I disagree that it's necessary and I wish I could disable it. They even have it enabled on iPads, which are a tad larger than the original iPhone, and which can be used with the official stylus.

"Necessary" was probably too strong a word. I'm definitely no expert so I can only offer anecdotes, but for the first ~decade of iOS, the keyboard felt amazing to use. I felt super fast and typing mistakes were rare. Now I feel like I'm constantly fighting the keyboard to type the letters I actually want to type.

Agree at this point that I would disable it (in its current state) if I could, but when it worked correctly it was a huge boon to typing.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by malfist »

etrautmann wrote: post #76
ryandrake wrote: post #44

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> "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.

That’s not what this is about. If you have a group chat with one android user, it used to make all aspects of the interactions clunkier. Green bubbles, sending a new text instead of reactions, etc. as such, people would get left off of a list. Those small interactions add up over time.

If your "friends" care enough about small stuff like that to cut you out of their conversations, they're not your friends.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

#94

Post by imglorp »

> orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring

I guess this is really important to people.

One time I broke an Android, which happened to be white, and spoke to the insurer for a replacement. The agent insisted she find me another white phone, not another Android, and though an iPhone was suitable. She couldn't grok how the OS and phone specs were more important than the color.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

#96

Post by dgxyz »

Beestie wrote: post #43

Android: 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

Android is more "here's a pocket panopticon we hope you won't unconfigure"

Apple is more "here's this refined product which we designated as refined after a heavy session snooting cocaine off a toilet seat"

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by pmontra »

stockresearcher wrote: post #83
ryandrake wrote: post #44

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> "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.

This is correct. Everybody has green bubbles in Europe even on iOS, because everybody is using WhatsApp. But mean people are still mean.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

#98

Post by cwnyth »

_alternator_ wrote: post #87
actionfromafar wrote: post #60

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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.

No, it's an old phrase. It came from the question, "Was this filmed on a potato?" when someone posted a video of particularly bad quality, as if their phone was a potato.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

#99

Post by malfist »

wlesieutre wrote: post #24
sbdaman wrote: post #9

Keep autocorrect on and turn off predictive text. Makes the experience way better.

Is predictive text the one that reaches back and changes correct words that I had already finished typing?

Man, gboard does that on android so much that I wound up installing and using heliboard. It kinda sucks but at least it doesn't "fix" your message after you type everything
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