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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 halostatue »

alterom wrote: post #509
halostatue wrote: post #460

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TL;DW. I don't watch video complaints. I don't watch most YT videos except at 2x because by time the person who made the video got started saying what they're trying to say, I could have finished a text article version of the same thing. Most people speak way too slowly for me to be interested in what they're saying, especially when they could have written an article that is more information dense and it typically sh…

You know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words"? So yeah, a video that precisely reproduces a UI/UX bug is worth more than anything you can write about it. Showing exactly what the problem was is much better than describing the problem. It's a lossy conversion that adds noise. Saying this as someone who doesn't watch videos normally.

It isn't necessarily. A _bad_ video can often be worse than a bad description, because I can read a bad description and reformulate and clarify. This is compounded when the video skips the prerequisite steps that a description often needs to add.

So: TL;DW.

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

#812

Post by Cluelessidoit »

The IOS keyboard (literally as I type this) is a fucking pile of shit. It used to be so good (iOS 10, idk or some shit) it’s absolutely awful now. It doesn’t correct words, it doesn’t suggest correct spelling, it’s not intuitive at all. In fact, the only place where ai should thrive and be implemented is fucking texting/type

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

#813

Post by b__d »

I too struggled with the keyboard, especially since iOS 26. I then tried to DEACTIVATE ALL keyboard "features", so:

- NO auto-corr - NO predictive text - NO check spelling - NO char preview - NO feedback - NO sound - NO auto-cap - NO smart punctuation - NO slide to type - NO everything

And this ABSOLUTELY solved my problems with the iOS keyboard. Yes, I do mistype from time to time. But that is in no relation to how it was with all those features…

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

#814

Post by savanaly »

pbmonster wrote: post #805
savanaly wrote: post #797

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I'm in the US, I never experience any of the issues people complain about. Just checked and I don't have the setting disabled that that one guy talked about up thread. But I do have all notifications off. Maybe that is why?

Pro/Enterprise Version?

Regular Joe version as far as I know.

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

#815

Post by jama211 »

BobMontgomeryJr wrote: post #680
jama211 wrote: post #313

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Some of these are design decisions, not rough edges. There’s pros and cons. Eg, centralising settings makes it simpler min some ways and more convoluted in others. That being said clipboard history would be a nice addition. However I never want to see how long until my morning alarm, that’s one thing from android I don’t miss, it would give me immediate anxiety. Regardless when you’re used to something it often doesn…

They're both emphatically not fine from any erudite informed perspective of what has been better in the past. I've used small-form factor DOS luggable-bricks, miniature Windows7 7" diagonal laptops (Fuji B112, B2131) obsessively since the epoch, also exotics like Fakespace NDOF dataGloves, yada~ and my usual combination of trackball magicMouse and 3D connextion SpaceNavigator on my desktops. Now I've got an Android t…

That’s a lot of words to say “if I don’t like something it’s objectively wrong” - also your wild rant went on so long and on so many tangents surely I’m not supposed to take you seriously.

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

#816

Post by jama211 »

Gander5739 wrote: post #386
mikepurvis wrote: post #344

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I recently switched the other direction and one rough edge I was surprised to hit on Android is the state of copy and paste for images; on iOS I would copy from Google photos and paste in WhatsApp, now that's just gone and the only option is either Google photos share-to or WhatsApp insert-from. There seems to be pseudo image clipboard support but it's mostly limited to pasting between Chrome tabs afaict. My switchin…

I've been a lifelong Android user and still find this a glaring omission. As far as I can tell, copying an image in a browser and then pasting it elsewhere results in a character.

That’s ridiculous, that would drive me insane

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

#817

Post by jama211 »

bjoli wrote: post #781
jama211 wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of these are design decisions, not rough edges. There’s pros and cons. Eg, centralising settings makes it simpler min some ways and more convoluted in others. That being said clipboard history would be a nice addition. However I never want to see how long until my morning alarm, that’s one thing from android I don’t miss, it would give me immediate anxiety. Regardless when you’re used to something it often doesn…

They dont enforce the centralised settings. That is why it is maddening. Some apps have the settings in the settings app. Some do not.

Ehh, there’s a style guide for what should be in each, you get used to it, but I’ll admit it’s not ideal.

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

#818

Post by kakamadafuka »

BobMontgomeryJr wrote: post #680
jama211 wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of these are design decisions, not rough edges. There’s pros and cons. Eg, centralising settings makes it simpler min some ways and more convoluted in others. That being said clipboard history would be a nice addition. However I never want to see how long until my morning alarm, that’s one thing from android I don’t miss, it would give me immediate anxiety. Regardless when you’re used to something it often doesn…

They're both emphatically not fine from any erudite informed perspective of what has been better in the past. I've used small-form factor DOS luggable-bricks, miniature Windows7 7" diagonal laptops (Fuji B112, B2131) obsessively since the epoch, also exotics like Fakespace NDOF dataGloves, yada~ and my usual combination of trackball magicMouse and 3D connextion SpaceNavigator on my desktops. Now I've got an Android t…

This reads like a person trying to imitate a broken LLM that is on a hallucinatory rant. An actual LLM wouldn't be this coherent, though.

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

#819

Post by brynjolf »

Liftyee wrote: post #6

As a lifelong Android user (in the EU, where Apple hegemony is not as strong) I always saw Apple as the "pay more for more polished ecosystem UX" option. So it always surprises me when things that are trivial on Android/Linux are sticking points on iOS/macOS. Worse, it seems that proprietary means you can't do anything to fix them yourself.

One thing that blew my mind in a negative way, was pasting a phonenumber into the caller and not being able to edit it. If you paste a number and want for example to add the country code you simply cannot. You can only remove numbers.

If you want to edit it, you have to open the notes app, paste it, edit it and paste it back into the caller.

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

#820

Post by brynjolf »

threetonesun wrote: post #250
wilkystyle wrote: post #82

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The most frustrating aspect of Siri's quality decline is that super-basic things inexplicably stop working. For years I have been able to say "call " and Siri called my wife. A couple weeks ago she started dialing another contact I haven't talked to in 15 years with a similarly-pronounced name (but different spelling). I had to delete the old contact to stop that behavior from happening.

I mainly use Siri for cooking timers, I really enjoyed the brief period of time where it started flipping 50 minutes and 15 minutes. And then went back, for some reason, but not after I started using things like 14 minutes and 59 seconds or 51 minutes to make it think just a little harder.

My Siri just forgets to confirm the timer. So I go to find my phone swearing at it just to figure out it did set a timer, but for the wrong time. It simply didn't tell me.
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