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Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?

46 pointsby apetersover 1 year ago
I can’t be the only one who noticed.<p>No matter the model. It’s a pain to write with it. Writing faster or correcting longer words totally drives it nuts.<p>It’s slow, not precise and just not clever.

17 comments

LimeLimestoneover 1 year ago
I have the same feeling, back in the iPhone 5 and 5S days I used to be able to type very fast with hardly any typos, now I type slower and make more typos. I weigh the same (I even lost some weight I had gained during the COVID era). The two things that have changed are the screen size and the version of iOS.<p>I have never had autocorrect on. My guess is that iOS is somehow trying to be more clever than me and slightly shifts the keys&#x27; hitboxes in a poor attempt to overcompensate for what it thinks is my fingers&#x27; clumsiness.
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dave84over 1 year ago
Yes. I had previously wondered if iOS keyboard usage could be used to track cognitive decline in Health, but the keyboard is declining faster than I am.
ostenningover 1 year ago
Its really had a significant impact on my usage. Its laggy and incorrectly interprets events or even worse wont register them at all - such a fundamental aspect of using the device im not sure how they fuck up testing these releases. Latest iOS on iPhone 12 Mini.
more_cornover 1 year ago
Because Apple’s monopoly position in mobile means the company doesn’t have to keep you happy to keep you as a customer. What about android you say? Apple has been able to achieve customer lock-in which gives them a de facto monopoly because the barrier to quitting is too high.<p>Complain to the FTC and your state’s attorney general. Apple needs a slap or else they’ll keep using anticompetitive practices to keep customers even when they don’t have the best product or the best price.
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theflyingelvisover 1 year ago
I thought it was just me. Seems like the keyboard is more difficult to use with each update.
Svetlitskiover 1 year ago
Turn off “Slide to Type” in the settings if you don’t use it. This appears to increase accuracy in my experience.
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testmasterflexover 1 year ago
I was working with an iPhone 6 today with iOS 12 installed and I was shocked how much comfortable typing was
girishsoover 1 year ago
When correcting a typo, tapping on the character in a word selects the entire word instead of putting the caret next to the tapped character. Also, long pressing &quot;space&quot; doesn&#x27;t move caret as it moved to in previous iOS versions.
alexstore06over 1 year ago
Having lag trouble? Mine had been getting worse and worse, so today I finally reset my phone. No issues at all now. (issues included delays in opening messages, delays in characters appearing in the text box after attempting to type on the keyboard, and delays in responding after the send button was pressed)<p>If autocorrect is being trouble, you can always reset your autocorrect dictionary - it seems to get into bad habits sometimes.
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pbnjehover 1 year ago
A few years ago, the default Android keyboard started interpreting most anything that could match a brand name or trademark as such. I got really sick of backspacing to remove capitalizations.<p>My interpretation: The trends and ads and marketing people have their fingers in the keyboard pie. Not really a surprise that they would.<p>Another reminder that this whole system is not really created to serve me, the user...
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kingTugover 1 year ago
Nothing to add but I started spotting these &quot;is the iOS keyboard getting worse or am I going crazy&quot; threads (mostly on twitter) last year but I swear in the last ~4 months it has gotten demonstrably worse...like it&#x27;s comically bad. My typing accuracy these days is dreadful.
calypsoover 1 year ago
The iOS 17 swipe keyboard is the worst it’s ever been. I have to constantly go back and edit my discord messages.
Flowover 1 year ago
Years ago I had iPhone 3GS and iPhone 5. I remember being amazed how fast I could type on it. Today I simply write &quot;I&#x27;ll write a better answer on the computer later&quot;.
hesnutsover 1 year ago
Yea I keep thinking maybe my co-ordination is getting worse. I used to be able to type like a champ on the phone, now its a garbled mess and I&#x27;m constantly fixing mistakes :&#x2F;
LingxiJinover 1 year ago
The iOS keyboard Offers A Positive Feedback To A “Player”<p>Lingxi Is Who She Needs To Take The Responsibly. The Description “Dyslexia” Is Not Supposed To Take The Response.<p>Thank You For Your Question. Lingxi is Learning.
gperkins978over 1 year ago
Are you sure your fingers are not getting fatter? That is what I assumed, but I have gained over a hundred pounds.
runjakeover 1 year ago
Because, Apple isn’t good at many aspects of ML and particularly, LLMs which power text input on iOS 17.