The iOS 17 swipe keyboard is the worst it’s ever been. I have to constantly go back and edit my discord messages.
Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?
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#12A few years ago, the default Android keyboard started interpreting most anything that could match a brand name or trademark as such. I got really sick of backspacing to remove capitalizations.
My interpretation: The trends and ads and marketing people have their fingers in the keyboard pie. Not really a surprise that they would.
Another reminder that this whole system is not really created to serve me, the user...
Re: Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?
#13Because, Apple isn’t good at many aspects of ML and particularly, LLMs which power text input on iOS 17.
Re: Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?
#14A few years ago, the default Android keyboard started interpreting most anything that could match a brand name or trademark as such. I got really sick of backspacing to remove capitalizations. My interpretation: The trends and ads and marketing people have their fingers in the keyboard pie. Not really a surprise that they would. Another reminder that this whole system is not really created to serve me, the user...
Never bothered me and I don't think this is a marketing thing.
But on Android you can always use another keyboard, or go to gboard settings, text correction and turn off auto-capitalization.
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#15I was working with an iPhone 6 today with iOS 12 installed and I was shocked how much comfortable typing was
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#16Its really had a significant impact on my usage. Its laggy and incorrectly interprets events or even worse wont register them at all - such a fundamental aspect of using the device im not sure how they fuck up testing these releases. Latest iOS on iPhone 12 Mini.
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#17Because Apple’s monopoly position in mobile means the company doesn’t have to keep you happy to keep you as a customer. What about android you say? Apple has been able to achieve customer lock-in which gives them a de facto monopoly because the barrier to quitting is too high. Complain to the FTC and your state’s attorney general. Apple needs a slap or else they’ll keep using anticompetitive practices to keep custome…
Just wait for EU open store ruling
Re: Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?
#18Turn off “Slide to Type” in the settings if you don’t use it. This appears to increase accuracy in my experience.
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#19Yea I keep thinking maybe my co-ordination is getting worse. I used to be able to type like a champ on the phone, now its a garbled mess and I'm constantly fixing mistakes :/
Re: Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?
#20Turn off “Slide to Type” in the settings if you don’t use it. This appears to increase accuracy in my experience.
I just tried turning it off.
And I turned off predictive too.
This is the first thing I have tried to type and it is much faster I think.
Perhaps because that whole band of possible words is gone and I can just look at the keyboard and the output.
Thanks.