They broke text selection and autocorrected things they don’t need it. Completely broken.
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
231–240 of 826 posts
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
The recent changes to the iOS keyboard and text editing in general have been very counter productive for me as well. Tap to select doesn't really work the same way anymore and the logic of it isn't clear to me which makes it unpredictable. Typing accurately itself has gotten really difficult. I used to be a pretty quick typist on the iOS keyboard but now I find myself looking for my Mac to send a message from there o…
Also why did they get rid of select all? Is there any excuse for that?
Select all always appears if you have no text selected and never appears if you have some text selected. Insane UI decision by apple but that's how it is.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#233im not sure why you need to be so dramatic with the timer. just switch already if you don't like it
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard would not get any traction. This is getting traction. I'm pretty sure the author realized that Tim Apple isn't shaking in his boots, looking at the numbers going down. That's not the point, the point is that it's funny and interesting and thus getting attention.
> Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard would not get any traction. Nonsense. Complaints about Apple’s declining software quality get a lot of traction on HN. Here’s another example from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008 And lookie here, what was submitted within one hour of that post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996575 This exact same submission! Which didn’t get any tr…
There are dozens of blog posts about this, and this one is trending on HN.
Anyway, why are you so upset about this? Why are you calling my comment "nonsense" and obsessing over this counter? It's clearly having an effect on you, which was its purpose. Realistically, another post about Apple's borked keyboard should create zero emotional response, yet here we are.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's a phrase that's been around for years to mean "poor quality" (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/recorded-with-a-potato). One theory behind the term is that the recording device was so bad/low-tech, it could be powered by a potato battery.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#236>i'm weak >I caved to the blue bubble pressure This is basically how I view iphone users. They buy an inferior product because Apple exploited their lack of status. From moms, to teens, to low-middle income people... Heck, its even infected some perpetually single techies who are so insecure they buy the inferior Apple product. These companies that exploit such psychology is disgusting. From Apple to Nintendo to Disn…
[dead]
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#237> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.
Here's a more substantive reason to prefer iPhone to Android: Android phones, mine anyway, have no option to suppress audible notification of incoming texts or calls from numbers not found in Contacts.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#238Why the drama? If you do not like native keyboard, install 3rd party one like Gboard.
3rd Party Keyboards exist, but they don't have the same rights/abilities as Apple's native keyboard, directly resulting in some features/functions being impossible to implement.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just typed "thumbs up" ~50x and was not able to reproduce the bug. But, as was pointed out in another thread somewhere, since I don't have 'Predictive Text' enabled maybe that has something to do w/it. So; I enabled 'Predictive Text' and there's the bug. It's consistently misspelling 'thumbs' with any number of different variations. Disabling 'Predictive Text' seems to correct the bug; however, there must be someth…
I never have predictive text, autocorrect et al. turned on. I somehow never figured it could work well. To be honest I did not give it a chance, but I'm happy to just always get exactly what I type. Don't remember running into any issues like author of the op article.
I turn off predictive text for a deeper reason: it interrupts your train of thought. I have a sentence mostly formed in my head, but when predictive text predicts a word that’s different, there’s so much extra mental overhead to consider whether I should change the sentence or ignore it.
I begrudgingly accept autocorrect on iOS however. On a real computer, I turn that off too. I have learned since a long time ago that writing and editing should be two separate activities.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#240I prefer the iOS keyboard than over the Android ones. Why does my autocorrect work fine and my keys and swipe typing work, but not yours?