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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 materielle »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #217
LollipopYakuza wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand your point, but for an issue that's been addressed so many times, it doesn't sound necessary to get into details. The issue doesn't seem to be that Apple doesn't know but that they don't care. However, if I, as the author cared to justify that "it's not only me", I would have listed more posts and feedback. I feel like I have read at least 4 times about the broken keyboard, it should not be hard to find…

Well, presumably the page's intended audience is software developers at Apple. As a software developer myself, I am all too familiar with the unnecessary churn caused by vague bug reports. It saves time when people include details like error messages (when applicable), steps to replicate, expected result vs. actual result, etc. Besides, users and developers don't always use software the same way, have the same settin…

This just feels so backwards. Yes, I know recreating ambiguous issues is annoying because it’s a lot of work, but it’s also our job.

Reminder: we are asking users to give us money in exchange for software.

It’s our job to deliver that working software. It’s not the user’s job to hold our hands and pep talk us into fixing problems. Users can and should find another product that will just do it for them without the whining.

I think the real point of the website, besides joking around, is poking fun at the broke state of the software industry where a bunch of whiny developers and managers will make a million tired excuses for why their software doesn’t just work.

Highlighting bug report and bureaucratic process in response to “your keyboard is jank” is exactly the mindset we need to change.

The point isn’t to start a forum or technical conversation with Apple devs. The point is to laugh at them because their software sucks and “just one more Jira ticket” isn’t going to fix it.

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

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Post by biotechbio »

+1. From the original post, I found this video to be particularly damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

Does anyone have an explanation for how something like this passes QC at a company with the resources of Apple? Is this video misrepresenting something?

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

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Post by lynndotpy »

ryandrake wrote: post #44
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…

> "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.

I'm not a highschooler, and you don't understand the point.

If you're not an American younger than 35, this is probably something you don't understand because you didn't experience first-hand.

It's not a scenario where "your friends refuse to talk to you", it's "there are so many people to talk to, and there is a lot of friction around talking to this one person". You don't get the chance to become their friends in the first place.

If you can't get on iMessage, you can't be in iMessage group chats.

Similarly, if you don't have a cell phone, you can't text. If you don't have a landline, people can't call you. If you don't have the internet, you can't get on chatrooms. You wouldn't expect a teenager in the 90s to give up a landline in favor of living exclusively by handwritten letter.

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

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Post by necessary »

londons_explore wrote: post #498

My guess is that the 'wrong letter entered' bug is by design. The keyboard animation happens on the touchdown event, whereas the letter is entered into the text box on the touchup event. Between the two, more information might emerge about the touch - for example the exact shape of the touched area, and movement during the touch, etc. I would guess the keyboard sees a down in one spot, and an up in a slightly differe…

You can indeed see this behavior in action by tapping a letter and briefly swiping slightly to an adjacent letter. Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see why the letter should be submitted on touch-up, since I’ve never intentionally tried to correct an individual letter between touch-down and touch-up.

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

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Post by alterom »

halostatue wrote: post #460
chmod775 wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it’s not a lot to ask. That is assuming the user doesn’t first have to offer incense and whisper a fervent prayer to the Omniscient Deity of USB Devices to seize control of the mouse and click the link in divine intervention. However for most of us that is uncessary and clicking a link to a video requires no effort at all.

TL;DW. I don't watch video complaints. I don't watch most YT videos except at 2x because by time the person who made the video got started saying what they're trying to say, I could have finished a text article version of the same thing. Most people speak way too slowly for me to be interested in what they're saying, especially when they could have written an article that is more information dense and it typically sh…

You know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words"?

So yeah, a video that precisely reproduces a UI/UX bug is worth more than anything you can write about it.

Showing exactly what the problem was is much better than describing the problem. It's a lossy conversion that adds noise.

Saying this as someone who doesn't watch videos normally.

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

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Post by n8cpdx »

It will be hard, but I’m transitioning out of Apple ecosystem regardless of whether they improve.

Just like Windows 11, I get ads whether I want them or not - just got a push notification for a new financial product (!!!) despite going out of my way to opt out.

iOS 26 made my 16 Pro, practically brand new, feel slow. I upgraded because my 13 mini was slow, and I chose Apple in the first place because they had some of the best performing phones (especially cpu/gpu; they always had less ram but before llm it didn’t matter).

The keyboard is horrible, but I don’t trust Google or Microsoft keyboards either; I think my next phone will be graphene; just waiting to see who their new hardware partner is.

I loved Apple TV because it was fast; under 26 it is slow.

I chose Mac for best in class hardware. That is unfortunately unchanged; really hoping snapdragon X 2 elite has good Linux support.

My Apple Watch, despite doing nothing new it didn’t used to do, has also become slow and annoying, and its battery was never as good as it should have been. When I jump to Android I think garmin is probably the best choice, but maybe there are good wearables now. Unfortunately Android doesn’t have its act together re:built in health data database.

Replacing Athlytic and keeping my history will be one of the biggest challenges in the transition.

Competitors unfortunately still have huge blind spots even if some of the core experiences are better.

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