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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 fizwidget »

ntoskrnl_exe wrote: post #487
ASalazarMX wrote: post #290

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It's even deeper than that. You know the fancy side button that is designed to be used as a camera shortcut? You don't need that shortcut? Guess that button is unusable for you, because you won't be able to assign it to anything else. Meanwhile the lock button long-press was hijacked for Siri, so now you have to click it five times if you want to turn off the phone. And don't get me started on the useless back tap, w…

Do you mean that new action button thingy above the volume controls? You can reassign to perform something else in the settings. Only a few options to choose from, but it's totally possible. As for powering off, you can tap the ⏻ symbol in the upper right-hand side corner of the control center.

You can assign the action button to run a shortcut, which opens up thousands of possibilities for what it can do.

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

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Post by renmillar »

nashashmi wrote: post #426
ozzyphantom wrote: post #413

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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…

> - autocorrect “correcting” correctly typed words This brings up so many emotions. I disabled autocorrect. I don't give a damn if my words are spelled wrong but they should not be words that I did not type! I will add: text prediction was so much better before that I could be very sloppy and it would still figure it out. Now I have learned to be more careful with the keyboard.

I got anxious about autocorrect potentially inserting the wrong words and what kind of social fallout that could cause, so I just disabled it entirely. Takes longer to type everything manually but at least my anxiety has gone down.

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

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Post by bentcorner »

ozzyphantom wrote: post #413
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 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…

> Clearly tapping a letter “taps” a different letter (hot spots poorly calibrated)

FWIW I encounter this in Android every so often (using gboard). Anecdotally I don't know what causes it (I swear sometimes it's worse and sometimes it's better), but Android isn't entirely problem free.

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

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Post by SkyPuncher »

I thought this was just me!

Every now and then, I feel like I simply cannot tap the correct keys. Things I do from muscle memory are jumping to the next letter over. This isn't just a temporary problem. It lasts for days/weeks.

Then suddenly, it's fine again.

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

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Post by rock_artist »

Reading everyone’s comments it looks like there is a lot of rant with current iPhone state. I’m also feeling last releases introduced huge regressions. I bought an iPhone 16 seen many issues including keyboard ones.

I do hope Apple’s iOS 27 will be focused on fixes and optimizations. Apple Intelligence isn’t useful if the basic experience is mediocre

—— Sent from my iPhone sorry for the autocorrect

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

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Post by renmillar »

Eduard wrote: post #484
thaumasiotes wrote: post #381

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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. 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.

I'm typing this disagreement to your statement on a touchscreen with fingernails only

Did you use metallic nail polish? Or is your skin just barely not making contact with the screen?

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

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Post by munk-a »

hypercube33 wrote: post #241
srmatto wrote: post #174

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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 apple - windows and android autocorrect are more auto incorrect these days.

Your statement isn't incorrect - but I think it needs a slight qualification of "And none of them are acceptable". Both Apple and Android have regressed in quality and it's only possible because of a duopoly.

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

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Post by disillusioned »

hbn wrote: post #424
OkGoDoIt wrote: post #393

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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)

I know when I was on Android they'd do some smarts to detect stuff like that (handy for copying links) But I swear if that's what they're trying to do here, I've never seen it work properly once. It's always just a random substring of the sentence.

It works surprisingly well on Android; expanding to grab a full address, for instance, or complete phone number. Sometimes it needs tweaking, but mostly it's directionally correct and helpful rather than harmful

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

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Post by davnicwil »

The most frustrating one for me is how in safari in the address bar the keyboard changes and drops '.' to the right of the spacebar in the exact spot I usually hit the spacebar with my thumb (because I'm just tapping the edge, not stretching to the middle of the screen).

This means in the modern mode of using the address bar as search, and not to type a domain manually (which is what I believe most people are also doing) I just end up with a search string separated by dots which Google can evidently deal with but is just very annoying.

I see threads on the internet going back years complaining about this issue and yet there's no configuration to change it. It would be such a simple and easy fix (like, just give me the regular keyboard, nothing special). It's a bit baffling since it seems such a glaring everyday UX problem.

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

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Post by bartread »

butterfi wrote: post #540
Normal_gaussian wrote: post #345

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It turns out he posted a better example in his blog post about it - https://thismightnotmatter.com/a-little-website-i-made-for-a... - which is technically linked to in the bottom of the site. I guess if you spend your life learning UX from Apple this is what you get...

Thats a pretty snarky thing to say about Apple. They were arguably the pioneers in OS UX... granted, its not the end all, be all, but still. You could do worse.

> You could do worse.

Perhaps you shouldn't encourage them. Based on recent software releases from Apple they might see it as a challenge.

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