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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 latexr »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #536
latexr wrote: post #252

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I think you’re projecting. How is mentioning a counter once in one comment “obsessing”? I’m glad this post is getting traction, I’m pretty open about my disdain for Apple’s declining software quality and Tim Cook’s management, I welcome posts that shine more light on it. > Realistically, another post about Apple's borked keyboard should create zero emotional response Of course that is not true. That is trivial to dis…

The linked post is from two months ago.

There aren’t daily or even weekly submissions about the iOS keyboard being broken. That seems pretty obvious (and understandable).

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Post by RobertLong »

I've been staying on iOS 17 and macOS 15 because I just don't see iOS/macOS 26 as an upgrade in any way. This is the first time I haven't been running a beta or getting a day one upgrade for Apple operating systems. I can't imagine moving away from iPhone or a MacBook, however if they want to avoid OS fragmentation and security issues caused by users like me refusing to upgrade, 27 better address these UX and stability issues.

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Post by iamacyborg »

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…

A lot of these issies seem damiliar to me as well on the glasskwyboard pn my iphone13 mini.

Also typed without any maual fixes. My typingwas mucu better before glass.

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

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Post by n8cpdx »

rationalist wrote: post #518
n8cpdx wrote: post #510

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.

The irony is that things like HealthKit make it easy to build a system out of parts that just work together - my glucose monitor, watch, and scale all feed data into my nutrition tracking app seamlessly, and if I want an AI spin on the data, I use a separate app that reads the same data. Very hard to do that on Android.

My iPhone seamlessly adapts to my working context using focus modes automation - Android still doesn’t do that; maybe they have launchers with equivalent features.

Android makes it easy to customize the things I don’t want to customize, and hard to customize the things I do.

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Post by spockz »

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

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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.

Just keeping my finger on the word works for me every time to select it. Double tap works only works in the edit fields. Also works reliable for me here in the hacker news post editor, as long as I do it in the middle of the word.

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

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Post by osener »

biotechbio wrote: post #506

+1. From the original post, I found this video to be particularly damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Does anyone have an explanation for how something like this passes QC at a company with the resources of Apple? Is this video misrepresenting something?

For years I thought I had a faulty touchscreen and started relying on dictation more and more. Seeing this video saved me from going insane. They must have crunched the numbers and decided that these choices benefit more people than not. BUT HOW!

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Post by ost-ing »

Im convinced its all planned to force users to upgrade. The “7 years of updates” selling point is just a trojan horse to install a newer iOS that makes the product run like garbage.

Id honestly prefer never to update than get these bogus “security updates, features and fixes”

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Post by hollandheese »

muppetman wrote: post #529
leptons wrote: post #470

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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 mos…

As someone who has switched from Windows to Apple recently, my God the Finder is terrible. I can't understand how people aren't flipping tables over how bad it is.

Because Mac OS X Finder has always been kinda terrible. There was a lot of talk about this in the early 2000s and it's just faded away since the people using macOS now probably never experienced the good old Mac OS 9 Finder.

And its Windows competition Windows Explorer has likewise gotten worse and worse each revision of Windows.

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

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Post by kbelder »

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.

Is there a windows autocorrect? I thought that was a feature implemented by the individual program, not any sort of OS functionality.
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