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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 cyberpunk »

mcpar-land wrote: post #421

I watched the video and immediately tested it on my iphone. It's true?? About 50% of the time, typing "Thumb" resulted in "Thimb" or "Thjmb", while the visual feedback on the keyboard showed u being pressed instead! Other comments here say Predictive Text is the culprit, but I already had that off. I also turned off Slide to Type. Same result.

I had just sort of assumed it was me, but yes, this happens on my phone too. If i type very quickly i see the u feedback and i get an i or a j.

First notepad.exe gets a rce then this, is it the bottom, sadly I think not…

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

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Post by chmod775 »

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…

Sorry. That comment is too long. Didn't read. Hope you didn't waste much time on it.

Jokes aside, that video is 2:23 long and it gets to the point within the first 33 seconds, at which point they have demonstrated the issue.

You're being beyond incredibly silly right now.

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

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Post by trca »

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #415
sequoia wrote: post #274

I have a lot of issues with dictation as well which I feel has gotten much worse as it gets "smarter." It used to take literal dictation & I could say "comma" "period" etc. to insert punctuation. Now it tries to guess when commas or full stops should be added and it's horrible. If I pause to take a breath it puts a comma or period, sometimes entirely changing the meaning of the sentence. Recently I said "I ran into t…

Here's a recent conversation I had with Siri. Me: Hey Siri, set the living room lights to 100%. Siri: 100% = 1 This has been working for 6-7 years without any issues, and suddenly Siri is giving me math lessons. What the hell is happening in this company?

Same thing has happened to me with Siri. It's absolutely garbage.

For years, I've said "Hey Siri, turn on Bright" because I have a "Bright" Home scene configured. About 2 months ago, the HomePod updated and now responds consistently with "Pause in the bedroom?"

Nothing is playing in the Bedroom. Nothing CAN play in the bedroom, there's just lights in the Bedroom. No speakers. What the heck is it even _trying_ to pause.

It's infuriating.

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

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Post by leptons »

tambourine_man wrote: post #422
leptons wrote: post #376

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It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been. It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the…

I actually prefer the all caps keyboard and switch it on on iOS. It looks like a physical keyboard and the constant flicking between upper/lowercase is distracting and annoying

Well good for you, I guess?

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

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Post by nmilo »

There’s one specific thing driving me insane: it corrects “we’re” to “were” and “we’ll” to “well” EVERY TIME. It even did it while writing this comment. If I go into the symbols menu and find an apostrophe and type it in IT MEANS I MEANT TO PUT IT THERE

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

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Post by notorandit »

There's clearly something wrong here.

Either this user is faking everything about the keyboard, or Apple is.

None is testing (the keyboard) at Apple? Possible, but unlikely.

None is checking test results at Apple, possible and much less unlikely.

They want you to forget about the keyboard and go all vocal because "it's easier"? Sure.

That user wants his/her 15 minutes og glory? Possible, but unlikely.

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

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Post by ninth_ant »

tadfisher wrote: post #427
longfacehorrace wrote: post #349

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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.

Extremely common pitfall in UI engineering. If you treat all input as a queue that's divorced from output, you end up with situations like this. It's kind of a paradox, but in many cases you need to actually discard touch inputs until your UI state has transitioned as a result of previous inputs. This gets extremely nuanced and it's hard to write straightforward rules about when you should and shouldn't do this. Some…

This analysis ignores the fact that the user experience has regressed from a previous version which didn’t have these issues.

So it’s not like some longstanding industry-wide UI issues they’ve ignored forever, it’s that Apple has introduced new tradeoffs or lowered their quality standards to the point that some users feel their experience has worsened.

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

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Post by leptons »

abanana wrote: post #423
leptons wrote: post #376

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It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been. It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the…

Not always , if we go back to the 1980s. But in very modern times, they've lost all the learnings from back then.

lol, no, they sucked even more in the 1980s.

Did you ever notice that "About this software" is the first thing on the first menu of every application? Is that because people have to know what version of the software they are using every time they start it? It's still like that today, and it's very very stupid. Other OSs get it right and put the version information on the last menu, where it doesn't clutter up the most prominent area in the most used menus.

Finder was crap in the 1980s. Still is crap, but it used to be crap too.

The window system in the 80s and 90s was also crap. Could not resize a window from any side or corner of the window except the lower right. Windows has had resizing from any edge or corner since forever.

Apple "design" is just not as good as people seem to think it is.

They've also had plenty of weird and unloved hardware designs... the infamous trash can, the clamshell laptop, the weird anniversary macs, a mouse with a charging port on the bottom so that you can't use the mouse while it's charging, and the list goes on and on and on.

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