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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

#101

Post by bubblewand »

lecarore wrote: post #20
ctxc wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate? Is this a glassmorphism reference?

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.

Why does everyone describe this wrong, every single time this comes up? It’s the consistency of the wrongness that confuses me.

No, you do not see others’ messages as blue or green. You see your own as blue or green to indicate what kind of messages you are sending.

If it was ever otherwise, it certainly hasn’t been for many years.

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

#102

Post by russdill »

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

Just to play both sides here, on pixel there is a news feed if you swipe the home screen right. It is now infused with ai summaries rather than the first few lines of the story with no way to go back.

Course, I can switch to a different launcher, but it makes it much less of a "batteries included" sort of product.

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

#103

Post by prof-dr-ir »

I agree that this behavior is insane and should be fixed.

Do however note that it is possible to install another keyboard on iOS, which may alleviate your suffering before you switch to Android in about 120 days.

Personally I rely on Gboard [0] every day for the simple reason that it auto-detects several (more than two) languages, and of course it has the added benefit of not having this crazy bug. Gboard is google software however, so it does come with huge privacy issues, and others will hopefully point out better alternatives.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gboard

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

#104

Post by samhclark »

Tepix wrote: post #49
WarmWash wrote: post #38

Earlier 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.

You don't get a blue bubble for using RCS. That's still reserved for iMessage exclusively. (At least, on iOS 26 in the US on T-Mobile)

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

#106

Post by RankingMember »

prof-dr-ir wrote: post #103

I agree that this behavior is insane and should be fixed. Do however note that it is possible to install another keyboard on iOS, which may alleviate your suffering before you switch to Android in about 120 days. Personally I rely on Gboard [0] every day for the simple reason that it auto-detects several (more than two) languages, and of course it has the added benefit of not having this crazy bug. Gboard is google s…

I have Gboard and have weird issues with it crashing randomly. Not sure if it's because it's hamstrung by the limitations of Apple's support for alternative keyboards or what.

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

#107

Post by mingus88 »

malfist wrote: post #92
etrautmann wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Seriously, sounds more like a local user group than anyone who cares about you

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

#108

Post by soperj »

metabagel wrote: post #88
PlatoIsADisease wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They sold the Macbook air with Broadwell processors for over 3 years. They only changed the processors because intel discontinued them. They skipped 3 generations of processors.

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

#109

Post by washadjeffmad »

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?

Whatever it is, it's bad on GBoard, too, if you possess better than a 6th grade vocabulary.
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