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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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Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#653Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> They were arguably the pioneers in OS UX Who is "they"? The employees at Apple when the HIG was first published in 1986, 40 years ago? That Apple is dead, what you see before you is an empty and rotted husk.
When I began at Apple in 1995, we followed "Tog on Interface" to the letter. It was not uncommon to expect arguments over what the Right way was during lunch.
I watched as Steve Jobs came back to Apple—he really took hold of the reins of UX (aided by his team of designers).
Personally, (and I say this as it is often a matter of taste) I didn't care for a lot of it.
A simple example: the URL field of Safari should have been, to my Tog sensibilities, an editable text field only. Perhaps somewhere (below?, to the right?) you might include a progress bar to indicate the page loading. But a designer (I will not name, ha ha) came up with a combined textfield/progress bar. It looked to my eye as though, as the page loaded, the text was being selected!
Jobs loved it though.
It was then I think that Apple departed "Tog" for these "one-off" UX experiments.
I have rationalized this move away from a standard since, with the advent of the web, the customer is now being bombarded with all manner of UX—ought to be comfortable with one-off UX.
(Thankfully I see that now we have a thin line that seems to grow along the lower edge of the URL field.)
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#654@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…
but anyone who uses the keyboard knows the statements to be true.
I have just switched to turning autocorrect off.
The "select all" comment hit home. I frequently try to copy/paste text and it is maddening to try to locate "select all"
And cursor movement? ugh. It is so painful to move the cursor to one specific letter that I frequently just erase everything and start over.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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Yeah, it is still there, and there is a pretty clear cut logic for when it will appear. If you tap while a word is selected, it won’t appear. If you tap on the cursor while a word isn’t selected, it will appear.
If by "clear cut logic" you mean a consistent process, then sure. But if you mean intuitive, I must disagree.
Yeah, good point. Your guess was right, I meant it in the sense of consistency, not in the sense of it being intuitive without knowing about it
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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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.
Oh... Finder is the name of the default file browser? I always thought it was the search results that popped down from the top right search area. Last Mac I was on still had OSX on it. Thank goodness for Dopus.
lol, directory opus? I was using that on the Amiga way back in the day. I tried it like a decade ago, but it didn't stick for me. It doesn't seem to run on Linux, and it costs $$$, so no chance I'll try it again.
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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 have to long-press that icon, not just tap it. Granted, it enables lockdown too, which is what the physical button used to do. As other have pointed, you can also do that by long-pressing lock + volume up.
It is still ludicrous how Apple had to work around its own decision to not use the camera button for anything else, since allowing us to move Siri to the camera button would leave the lock button for the easy duress gesture it traditionally has been.
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Back tap is an accessibility feature, not intended for general public use.
Accessibility features are intended for general public use and they should work.
Specially on Apple devices, where common customization features are tucked away in the Accessibility menu.
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You can install third-party keyboards on iOS too, I'm not sure why that's not considered an option in this case.
3rd party keyboards are frequently banned from some of the bank apps, delivery services and so on. This way you have to keep the default one anyway and make even more typos when yet another app forces you to get back to Apple’s keyboard. I can’t even search stuff in my local delivery with SwiftKey
Oh that's really lame, I didn't know apps could do that.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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