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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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> "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.

That’s not what this is about. If you have a group chat with one android user, it used to make all aspects of the interactions clunkier. Green bubbles, sending a new text instead of reactions, etc. as such, people would get left off of a list. Those small interactions add up over time.

Man, if you seriously would exclude someone from social interactions because of the colour of their speech bubble in group messages, I dread to think how m stressful it would be to interact with people who's entire bodies were different colours.

Not even joking. 'Its legit stressful if someone's messages use a different colour background' is not logically compatible with being ok having different coloured people in view. I'm not actually calling you a racist, because it would also mean you get distressed if people wear different colour clothes and have avatars that look different, and I think a social group like that would have struggled enough to realise that the solution might not be 'get the Wrongly Coloured Group Text Guy to purchase a different phone rather than, idk, stop spending so much time staring at screens.

But it was amusing to imagine how wildly conformist one would have to be to actually dislike someone because their phone number doesn't have enough 7's or their name is longer than everyone else's so it looks untidy or whatever.

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

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It's so bad that I have to assume that Cupertino is filled with people who "hold the phone differently" and tap with their long fingernails or the very tip of their fingers or something. I'm always mistyping and I don't know how to fix it to do what they want.

> It's so bad that I have to assume that Cupertino is filled with people who "hold the phone differently" and tap with their long fingernails or the very tip of their fingers or something. Fingernails won't trigger a touchscreen. They do matter, though - as your fingernails get longer, you're forced to tap the phone with the side of your fingertip (so the nail doesn't block you) instead of the front.

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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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Apple is allergic to admitting anything. They go straight from "there is no problem" to "this update brings improvements".

This new keyboard is revolutionary. It's not just an improvement in the way you will type. It's an entirely new way of expressing yourself.

This new keyboard is revolutionary. It's not just an improvement in the way you will type — it's an entirely new way of expressing yourself.

Works better with an em-dash to make it feel more like today's default ChatGPT style.

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

#516

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If Steve jobs was still around, the iPhone would be considerably worse.

This is a bold statement - care to elaborate?!

I think they mean worse at generating services revenue. Everyone knows that’s the iPhones primary goal and purpose.

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

#517

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I see where you’re coming from, this was an impulsive creation after months/years of frustration without any expectations. For anyone curious of my experience here are my main pain points: - autocorrect failing to correct minor mistakes - autocorrect “correcting” a mistake with another mistake - autocorrect “correcting” correctly typed words - swipe to type is painfully behind Gboard (third-party keyboards are univer…

My fav is when iOS autocorrect corrects me AFTER pressing send. Be glad you only type in one language and that it is US English (probably) ;)

Try typing

Other times were not so bad.

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

#518
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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…

With Android (GrapheneOS), I can customize stuff on the phone that you can't customize with iOS.

It reminds me of Apple's 1984 commercial, except that Apple users are the ones sitting down, all looking identical, drinking the Kool-Aid from Big Brother.

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

#519
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Their software quality really went downhill in recent years, really hope whoever comes in after Cook treats it as priority

I'm getting a strong feeling that the first generation of really, really talented people who built iOS in the 2000s have now to a substantial degree moved on/retired. Similar feeling with OS X/macOS. Please correct me if I'm wrong - it is after all just a feeling.

I think the problem is actually political capital.

Someone who deeply understands how to qualify the product.

But with enough political sway to tell entire orgs of 1000s employees to shred their timelines and planning docs and go back to the lab until it’s right.

Without those two pieces, the problem is that individual devs and leaders know that there’s a problem. But the KPIs and timelines must lurch onwards!

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

#520
This is my number 1 complaint with iphone, even above battery life with their new crappy 3d effects. I bet these issues have actually cost a bunch of lives, given that people type while driving, and this nonsense makes it far harder. It can't be that hard to do this.
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