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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 reddalo »

swasheck wrote: post #140
WarmWash wrote: post #38

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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…

i wanted to hate apple so much at the advent of the smartphone era, so when i made the switch from flip to smart, i went with a samsung and gingerbread and it was such a universally awful experience compared to the iphone mobiles my employer issued (before BYOD). i gutted it out through the life of the contract and switched to iphone for my personal as well and have been quite happy up until ios 18. if there is no ap…

I agree, Liquid Glass is the reason why I'll stop buying Apple products. In the meantime, my Mac is going to be stuck to Sequoia.

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

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Post by SSLy »

ricardobeat wrote: post #727
akrymski wrote: post #721

As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons: - Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp - No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins) - Crazy monthly storage fees with no ability to control photo storage on phone - All google apps including Chrome, Gmail & Maps work better on Android and sync with Chrome on desktop - No gemini built-in - No…

I suspect 99% of users have no use for multiple versions of the same app. €10/month for 2TB storage is pretty good. I don’t use any google apps, or Chrome. Charge overnight so speed doesn’t matter. Now the parts you didn’t mention: - Apple makes great hardware, iPhones last forever (typing this from my virtue-signaling 2020 phone, my 2007 iPod touch still works). - A similar spec Android costs about the same but usua…

> €10

Apple has frozen their currency matrix at 2022-2023 levels, so in plenty countries they charge much (20%+) more than that.

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

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Post by sharperguy »

"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. "

I don't understand. What could Apple possibly have that is better than a working device?

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #403
gwbas1c wrote: post #365

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I think the point is that the keyboard is so broken the problems should be obvious to the people who work on the iPhone.

Exactly. There are some Apple folks here who keep gaslighting users with their iOS 26 concerns and every other issue by calling them weird names and asking them to not complain. The damn keyboard is broken, one would've known that if they used it more than a few minutes a day in real life examples. Stop shutting people off and use your own damn products instead of getting them all made in China and sell them.

You get that kind of nonsense when people get an irrational attachment to a technology brand.

I see that a lot with Tesla, there's the group that praises them publicly and makes outrageous claims about self-driving... But remains strangely silent about how the windshield wipers don't work right and Tesla won't fix them.

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

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Post by gilrain »

james_marks wrote: post #590
Lammy wrote: post #555

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> arguably Sick of this weasel word. Either argue it or don't.

Even worse, "I would argue that..." It's not hypothetical if you are here, in the current tense, arguing that. I've mostly cured myself of the habit, but its tough.

“I would argue that…” is a weaker statement, because it ends with an implied “…but since I don’t care that much, I’m not ‘seriously’ arguing that.” It’s not at all equivalent to the strong statement “I argue that…”, which has no such qualifier.

Why cure yourself of useful conversational nuance?

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

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

sharperguy wrote: post #763

"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. " I don't understand. What could Apple possibly have that is better than a working device?

"blue bubble" here is undersold. It means Apple has anti-competitively broken the experience of speaking with loved ones on purpose if you leave their ecosystem.

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

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Post by gilrain »

jonplackett wrote: post #739
devilbunny wrote: post #700

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There already was one. For all its faults, Swype for Android ~12 years ago was better than any swiping keyboard available now - both in its interpretation of swipes, and in its other features like "squiggle over one letter to indicate a double letter", "run your swipe above the keyboard to indicate a capitalized word", and the incredible editing features (it had an editing keyboard !). The Swype key, located in the b…

Sounds great. When you say 12 years ago do you mean newer versions weren’t as good? Or was it discontinued or something? I think the really puzzling thing about these keyboards is we all seem to remember typing being easier - even though phones back then were so much smaller. It makes no sense!

It was bought by Microsoft and declined, yes.

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

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Post by splittydev »

somebehemoth wrote: post #136
splittydev wrote: post #63

I'm one of the developers of Mister Keyboard. If you want, you can give it a try! Everything essential is completely free, maybe it works out for you.

For something that is as personal as a keyboard, it would be good to know what "Usage data" you are collecting and how it is used. I am eager to switch away from ios keyboard, but I do not trust most developers to have access to what I type. I understand it is "not linked to me", but this is an area where heavy skepticism is warranted.

Hey, we're super transparent about the data we collect.

We collect zero data about your typed words, personal dictionary data, stored contacts, clipboard history and basically anything else that's privacy-sensitive.

What we do collect is very generic and fully anonymized metrics such as: Do you use a theme, did you modify the keyboard, did you add an emoji key to your keyboard, etc.

We are not interested in typed words or any private data. We just want to know how people use the keyboard in general (which features in particular), and that's all we collect. You can opt out at any time, and all collected data is automatically deleted every 30 days because we only keep a 30-day rolling window.

If you want to be extremely safe, you can also skip enabling full access for the keyboard, which makes it impossible for us to send data from the keyboard itself to the app. But as said, we don't actually collect any privacy-sensitive data (and never will), and disabling full access comes with a few other caveats because Apple put many basic features such as vibration etc behind the full access setting as well, for whatever reason.

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

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Post by splittydev »

ssgodderidge wrote: post #192
somebehemoth wrote: post #136

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For something that is as personal as a keyboard, it would be good to know what "Usage data" you are collecting and how it is used. I am eager to switch away from ios keyboard, but I do not trust most developers to have access to what I type. I understand it is "not linked to me", but this is an area where heavy skepticism is warranted.

This is exactly the reason why I haven't looked into other keyboards. Gboard seems like a google-sponsored key logger? Anyone know of some good privacy-focused ones?

Please see my other comment here :) We do not collect any private data, and we never will. We only collect very generic and fully anonymized usage data, but that does not include typed characters, words, clipboard history, snippets, or anything else that could be considered private.

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

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Post by nottorp »

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…

As an iOS user I don't have any specific grievances, but I can definitely say the keyboard has got shittier and shittier in the past few years.

Apple's problem is their keyboard used to "just work" as the original article says. No one knows what magic they did back then, but it's obvious that they turned it off now.

They're still better than the spell checker in MS Teams, although that's not really positive.

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