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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 hypercube33 »

srmatto wrote: post #174
DamnInteresting wrote: post #151

@ozzyphantom: You might consider being more specific about your grievances in the text of your countdown page. As it stands, it's a bit vague, describing the keyboard as "broken" and autocorrect as "nearly useless". Sure, the video you link to is more descriptive, but it's a lot to ask of a visitor to click through and watch a separate video. As for the underlying issue, I have experienced similar typing issues on my…

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…

It's not just apple - windows and android autocorrect are more auto incorrect these days.

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

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Post by kccqzy »

piekvorst wrote: post #139

I have recently switched from 7 Plus to 16e. Now I make typos all the time. I still do not know who I should blame primarily, my muscle memory or Apple.

I didn’t even need to switch. Merely upgrading the version of iOS increases my rate of typos.

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Post by hnlmorg »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #169
latexr wrote: post #150

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I mean, this random person added a countdown timer, and after that revealed that when it reaches the end, if Apple hasn’t met some arbitrary demand they’ll leave the platform but probably be back (just in time to spend more money on another device) and that the colour of a phone is enough to get them back. This is one of the emptiest threats I’ve ever seen. This is about as effective as having a madman inside your ho…

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.

Is this getting traction? The front page of HN and some meta-debate is a pretty low bar for what I’d consider traction if I were a one of the richest companies on Earth.

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

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Post by thatswrong0 »

dylan604 wrote: post #172
nozzlegear wrote: post #145

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Anecdote but I've never had issues with the keyboard, or with Siri mishearing me (just to touch on another common pain point that people talk about re: Apple tech). I've always interpreted stories like this as the people who are most affected by it being vocal and speaking out (as they should), while the majority who aren't just have nothing to say because it all works fine. > Worse, it seems that proprietary means y…

> the majority who aren't just have nothing to say because it all works fine. This is a bad way to go through life with this reasoning. It is pretty well understood that in normal situations the vast majority of people are not vocal even if they feel the same way about things the vocal people are saying. As an example I use a lot, congress critters use a formula to get the pulse of the constituents. If they receive a…

o/ I'm a silent majority member for sure. I've seen these complaints before and I nod my head every time remembering that "Oh yeah, this DOES suck but I just put up with it because it happens so frequently and there ain't no way I'm switching ecosystems".

Sidenote: please Apple, if I type the same misspelled (but not) thing two times in a row, just leave it be. And no, I did not mean "what the he'll". And why is selecting text so hard.

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

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Post by MarioMan »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #123
dgxyz wrote: post #96

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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"

To be fair my iPhone spys on me in much more actively creepy ways than my android ever did. Showing ads for nearby pizza places at lunchtime on the homescreen. Telling me at about the time of my son's soccer that I may be interested in going to the place where his soccer is about now (despite me never using navigation on my phone) etc

Not sure where ads for pizza places are coming from, but the suggested maps trips are part of the “Significant Locations” feature. That data is end-to-end encrypted across your devices and is unreadable by Apple. It can be disabled if you don’t want it tracked.

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

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

ddtaylor wrote: post #197

> 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. But the keyboard on this beautiful phone is worse than ever. Most of those problems aren't solved by software. You are using your phone as a fashion item.

Plus devices can be wrapped for a few dollars. Turning a Pixel orange is trivial.

https://qskinz.com/en-us/collections/google-pixel-10-skins/p...

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

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Post by dzdt »

smokel wrote: post #135
sunaookami wrote: post #124

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I have this feeling for every software out there.

People who like building new things, like building new things.

And people who like getting raises dont like leaving things alone...

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

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Post by threetonesun »

wilkystyle wrote: post #82
fodkodrasz wrote: post #62

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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.

I mainly use Siri for cooking timers, I really enjoyed the brief period of time where it started flipping 50 minutes and 15 minutes. And then went back, for some reason, but not after I started using things like 14 minutes and 59 seconds or 51 minutes to make it think just a little harder.
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