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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 ozzyphantom »

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.

Definitely ridiculous and mostly an exaggeration on my part. There is some truth to it because the features of iMessage group chats are fun (stickers, message animations, etc.) but more generally I just like the Apple ecosystem.

My personal devices are usually Apple products and they all work together pretty seamlessly. Then I have all my other Linux servers, Windows desktops, random tablets, etc. for my hobby projects which generally require more manual configuration to work together.

I just like having my “personal” things within an aesthetically pleasing, relatively privacy preserving ecosystem but I get my kicks outside of that ecosystem aplenty.

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

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Post by InMice »

I almost switched to pixel before getting my new 17 pro max. I feel like im just constantly fighting the ios keyboard or having to type so slowly and carefully but it still is screwing up. I have a pixel 8a and Im shocked how quickly I can type on it while constantly tip toeing and fighting the ios keyboard.

It's ironic because my first iphone i used was a 4s and i was pleasantly surprised how nice it was to type on after using samsung phones. Now it's like the tables have turned. Im constantly fighting the ios keyboard. Sometimes when i tap and get the wrong character i will move my thumb to where i would have had to type to get that wrong character and i know for sure i did not move my thumb that far away from the character i actually wanted and thought i tapped on. Im honestly shocked how bad typing on ios has become. i got a pixel 8a just to amuse myself and i was again totally surprised how fast and easy the typing was. something is going rotten inside apple.

even controlling when the keyboard appears and when you want it to go away is frustrating on ios. i find the little universal down arrow on the pixel phones much better.

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

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Post by ozzyphantom »

TACD wrote: post #496
devhouse wrote: post #492

This is a brilliant, Love that timer, not sure why the exact time frame was picked though. It makes me want to create a similar landing page for Apple to fix Spotlight Search. I remember when I used to be able to just find and launch apps on my Mac.

I categorically do not love the timer. Timers should be a fixed-width typeface so the numbers don't jiggle.

Good point, I’ll fix this in a bit, any typeface recommendations?

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

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Post by dd8601fn »

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?

Siri is about old enough to be getting a drivers license now, and I swear it's going through the same brain development woes.

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

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Post by not_kurt_godel »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Debounce

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

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Post by [deleted] »

materielle wrote: post #519
lysace wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

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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 lynndotpy »

malfist wrote: post #538
lynndotpy wrote: post #527

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're misunderstanding the situation and reading malice into teenagers who are living in a world of decisions that were made before they were even born. It's not "small stuff", it's the entire medium through which the conversation happens. It's the entire thing. Do you "cut" your mom out of your group chats with your coworkers? Do you "cut" your coworkers out of intimate chats with your partners? Of course you do, b…

I am not misunderstanding the situation. If you omit me from a group message with our circle of friends because of the color of my speech bubble, you are not a real friend. Full stop.

I don't know you, of course we're not friends. I addressed this in my comment. There are group chats you are part of and ones you won't be part of. Most people maintain multiple different overlapping group chats.
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