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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 nunez »

tim-tday wrote: post #347

Post viable alternatives here and your thinking around why. Being free to leave the iOS ecosystem is the biggest flex anyone can make to enforce beneficial change. E.G. Signal is the iMessage killer. What’s your answer around lockdown, security, updates, hardware, iCloud replacement, AirPods etc

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, as I've long wanted to switch to Android.

If you have an Apple Watch and are using it for anything other than fitness tracking, then you're SOL. Non-Apple alternatives are nowhere near as capable. (In fairness, Apple has done a very good job of making the Watch a useful device on its own and providing a strong app ecosystem for it. I can straight-up leave my phone at home if I'm going to the gym or going somewhere nearby outside of working hours.)

If you don't have a Watch but do have AirPods, then you can switch to Android, but their capabilities will be slightly reduced. (Customizing noise cancelling and transparency mode, as well as add-ons like Live Translation, are only available on iOS.)

If you don't have either of these, then it comes down to apps, iMessage and FaceTime.

Many apps use StoreKit for managing subscriptions. These will need to be cancelled and re-subscribed with Google Play. Apps that were bought outright will need to be repurchased. Several apps (like the Vinegar/Baking Soda Safari extensions, which I, surprisingly, haven't been able to find alternatives for) are also iOS-only, so you'll need to find alternatives or live without them.

Regarding iMessage: you'll need to accept being a green bubble and breaking people's chats. If you use iMessage for most of your communications, this alone might be a dealbreaker. RCS is bridging the gap but isn't all the way there yet, and that's before considering how slowly carriers do things. Good luck getting people to change apps; that's like trying to turn a cruise ship.

FaceTime is really good. Google, despite launching 752 messaging apps in the past, doesn't really have an equivalent that works as well as FaceTime does (to my knowledge). Not an issue if you don't use FaceTime.

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

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

longfacehorrace wrote: post #349
srmatto wrote: post #174

Earlier 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…

It's not just the keyboard. My iPhone 15 is often so unresponsive I am tapping twice as much. Example but the issue not limited to web browsing; Safari will do nothing, I tap again, it does the thing, then it does the thing again due to the second tap. I have to tap back to get to where I really wanted to go.

Sounds like the liquid glass animations are so heavy that if the system is busy with anything else for a second then everything simply breaks.

I remember seeing the videos about cpu usage spiking over 40% just to show the control center.

And similarly, even on a Mac I find myself clicking on links and button multiple times, just for things to work. It has a dedicated keyboard, how is it that they messed it up so much that a physical keyboard stops working. It's an interrupt based interface, it takes less than a millisecond to process things, how can someone mess things up so freaking stupidly.

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

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

hbn wrote: post #380
bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In editable text fields you can tap a word a few times and it'll select the whole paragraph, if that's any help. What drives me insane though, is double tapping a word is supposed to select that word. But I think starting in iOS 18 it started selecting the word and a random amount of surrounding words, but only about half the time. I couldn't tell you what it could possibly be trying to do but it's maddening.

It’s using AI to try and determine if it’s a proper noun or other scenario where multiple words are really one semantic term. Except it’s really really bad at it and it’s almost never the behavior I want, but there’s no way to turn it off. (I vaguely remember there was a WWDC talk sometime a couple years ago where they went into how this works)

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

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Post by chmod775 »

bnchrch wrote: post #294
throw7 wrote: post #243

"I caved to the blue bubble pressure" The fact that this is a real thing is ridiculous. Say no and move on with life. This is the type of freedom that is actually freeing.

Its a real issue in North America. SMS and as a result iMessage is the dominant text based chat. iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android. Mac vs Windows is similar on the laptop front. Which means if your an Android user in a relatively average social group: * You will get left out of group messages * You will be starting on a back foot in the dating scene On top of you…

> iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android.

It does not function as a status symbol in the west. It's not a big deal to get one if you really want to and live in a developed country. People in asian countries making 1/8th of their american counterparts can afford iPhones. Someone making minimum wage in Germany can buy one using about 3-4 months worth of saved disposable income. In the states they'll throw one after you on credit without looking at you twice. It's only a status symbol if you want to set yourself apart from someone living in Zimbabwe... oh wait they also have lots of iPhone users. From who exactly? Afghanis?

Honestly if the bar for status symbol's is that low, you should sooner consider excercise and good dietary habits. These days in many western counties that will do many orders of magnitude more for how people perceive you and your dating life. Certainly more than what flavour of annoying chiming piece of shit you bought.

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

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Post by rezonant »

lolpython wrote: post #271
latexr wrote: post #204

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> 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…

Why so agressive? You're making a conclusion from a tenuous correlation. I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing. Judging by the other comments here a bunch of people are in the same boat. I've been complaining in my social circle about it and have partially switched to Android as a result.

"Why so aggressive?"

The post you're replying to is hardly being aggressive.

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

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

nunez wrote: post #348
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…

I have autocorrext turned off on my keyboard and typed this without any corrections. These sre the issues i've faced with the stock keyboard: - accidental periods when typing URLs in Safari - key target inaccuracy (though turning off swipe-to-tect gas ikproved this a little, though not enough) - key latnecy which causes letters innsome words to get swapped or extra unwated letters to appear (this could be a me-gettin…

I don't know if you experience any of these:

- Clicks on buttons and links not registering, and needing to click multiple times, sometime to no effect.

- Safari not suggesting the website you visit multiple time a day, and points you a random website you have never visited before.

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

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Post by dabbz »

vzaliva wrote: post #262
Someone1234 wrote: post #238

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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.

Interesting (I am Android user myself). Any examples of such features?

The ability to auto-fill the text/email verification codes is a huge one.

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

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Post by tremarley »

junon wrote: post #384

Android is the same. Grass isn't any greener over here. I miss T9.

On android there are 1000s of keyboards to choose from. They have various perks, customizable and if you don't like what's available you can simply build your own if you have the skills

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

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Post by neutronicus »

Someone1234 wrote: post #214
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…

It does make me wonder if Apple's own employees actually dog-food iOS day-to-day. It just seems like, you could stop any iPhone user in the street and ask them "How do you find the keyboard?" And get a consistently negative response, but yet nobody within Apple seemingly has noticed for YEARS. Everyone says iOS 26 did it, but I strongly disagree, I disabled most options in General -> Keyboard like three major iOS ver…

My wife got me to switch over from Android 2-3 years ago and I have fucking hated the iOS keyboard from day one.

She has only been complaining since iOS 26, though.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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