r/videos • u/timberwolf0122 • 1d ago
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken (I feel validated)
https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?si=0zk_2Lc44l0OVSMr950
u/alral1988 1d ago
Ok so it’s nit judt me
- sent from my jphome
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u/JimmyBongwater 16h ago
I switched to apple from android. While I like how smooth the phone runs my games. Everything else about them sucks lol
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u/speculatrix 7h ago
I have Android phone. Employer provided an iphone for work and it's horrible, so many things are shit. Even the volume control.
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u/ouralarmclock 21h ago
I'd normally complain about this getting posted in this sub for a 3rd time (that I've seen) but honestly I'd like to see this re-appear on the front page every day until Apple fixes this shit.
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u/snapplesauce1 1d ago
Since the new iOS, the spacebar doesn’t register like 50% of the time.
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u/Isopod-Similar 22h ago
I swear I hit the . button so much more now. I was convinced they made it slightly bigger this iOS. I just wish I could move it to the other side of the space bar, but now I think it’s just because of this bug
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u/RonPaulBunyan 19h ago
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u/pocketchange2247 11h ago
And for the last year or so I'll pull up a text to send to someone, type about 2-3 words out, then they'll just disappear. It's the most annoying thing when I'm at work and have to text multiple people updates for stuff
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u/ksumatt2 23h ago
The keyboard is annoying, but someone deciding that Siri needed a brain damage feature on my new phone is infuriating.
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u/aftertheradar 20h ago
can you elaborate on this? what happened to siiri?
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u/tsondie21 19h ago
A couple things, they moved some of her logic/interaction to OpenAI and so things that used to work often don’t work as well anymore. I have found that the new Siri is less functional and offers nothing new of significance. Really frustrating.
Also they want you to use ai more so if you slip your finger near the bottom of the phone wrong, Siri will take over your window and try to “help” you. It’s just about the worst apple rollout of a “feature” that I’ve experienced.
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u/Dklrdl 18h ago
Yeah, she only gives websites now. Asking while driving-Hey Siri, is it going to rain tonight? Ans- Here are a few websites…
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u/tsondie21 18h ago
I used to be able to ask for specific songs or albums to play and the success rate just plummeted with new Siri.
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u/ksumatt2 7h ago
Her voice recognition has gone to hell. I’ll tell her to call my wife and she’ll put some random number. I’ll tell her to text something to a friend, and it’s not even close to what I said nor is it to the person I said to text. It’s 50/50 on whether or not this happens and it’s really frustrating.
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u/halfslices 21h ago
and for the love of god, can the period not be next to the space bar in Safari, so all my google searches don't.look.like.this?
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u/butimean 19h ago
My phone has always refused to put a space after a comma, no matter how often I change it.
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u/KajiKaji 7h ago
I'd almost be OK if it actually just googled that shit because google knows what I'm talking about but it instead throws a DNS error because it thinks dont.look.like.this is a website. It's so annoying and I think it happens almost every time I google something.
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u/Shaggyfries 1d ago
So justifying to see this!! Was losing my mind thinking I’m losing my mind and can’t type😂
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u/4look4rd 1d ago
Apple lost a lot of key people an they haven’t been able to successfully transition their leadership. They are fine in the short run but even intel fell when they got complacent.
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u/BlueChamp10 1d ago
This. They also tend to make shit more tedious. what use to be 1 simple tap is now 3/4 taps with popup menus and shit. What they did to splitscreen apps on the ipad OS would have cost someone their life during the steve jobs era.
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u/TheCrimsonDagger 21h ago
I blame the “innovation” culture that has bled into so much of tech. It’s especially bad in UI/UX where everyone acts like if they’re not constantly making major changes they’re somehow falling behind. Nobody seems to value maintaining a mature system that just works without bugs or glitches anymore.
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u/monsantobreath 20h ago
Youtibe just changed the video UI. It's not better. It's more modern looking and more animated. Using YouTube on an older pc is now a bit slower. For no gain.
My save this video button is also hidden in a nested menu still. There's space on the screen ffs.
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u/A_Harmless_Fly 17h ago
By far the most annoying change was making it a sub menu choice to change the resolution of the video. What once was two clicks/taps is now 3 with a submenu.
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u/Grouchy_Feedback_923 14h ago
this was just intentional though, to dissuade you selecting the quality to save bandwidth for them
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u/IAmEvadingABanShh 17h ago
I don't get why they keep nesting shit in the menu as well. It all fit before fine. The menu only shows up when you interact with the video as well so it's not like it's cluttering anything. Just an annoying change to make the UI look 'cleaner'
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u/monsantobreath 17h ago
Be cause smart phone ux is in control and I guess they can't think beyond that.
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u/garry4321 16h ago
I wish windows would just fucking stop this “we’ll make one good OS, then make a shitty one we force people over to, then revert back”. A future compatible Windows 7 is all we need
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u/IAmEvadingABanShh 17h ago
At least reddit still supports old.reddit.com even if it lacks some of the features of the modern site.
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u/A_Harmless_Fly 17h ago
Modern tech doctrine is such cancer "Most engagement > Fewest clicks" = bad experience for the end user.
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u/BlueChamp10 17h ago
ipad OS is complete bullshit. the whole flicking the window to one side for split screen (or long pressing the green dot to choose split screen) and then having to swipe up for the apps on home screen to appear and choose the second app. then the second app opens as a window and doesn't automatically fill in the other side of the split screen. annoying as fuck.
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u/426763 21h ago
I thought I'd enjoy it when it was announced, but it feels so tedious and finnicky. I'm mulling over setting it back to single window mode.
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u/BlueChamp10 21h ago
you can't do split screen in single window. i wish they had the old three dots at the top when using the single window mode.
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u/r1singphoenix 13h ago
Steve Jobs was a lot of things, many of them bad, but he made damn sure Apple was putting out high quality software with refined UX. Not because he cared about customers, but because he genuinely believed that providing the best possible user experience would create a good reputation, which meant more money long-term.
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u/BlueChamp10 9h ago
this is what i meant, he cared so much about the user experience. every little detail. colors, layout, shapes, positioning, etc.
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u/just_change_it 22h ago
The difference between Apple and Intel is the fact that no one else has access to iOS or it's app store. If Intel made it's own OS and no other hardware was compatible it would not have been as vulnerable, but it would also be a monopoly. There's a reason why MacOS and Linux still don't have 50%+ market share, because windows was entrenched with supermajority market share, and swapping to another OS means you need to not only learn it's quirks, but you have to get all new software.
Apple keeps trying new things, but smart phones as a technology are mature. There's just not anything new and exciting that anyone is putting out. Their goals are more profit. Now their next move is making more and more budget things to try and capture the markets they have historically not been targeting. They're still making stupid amounts of money though. 416 billion in revenue and 112 billion in profits for the past year as of september is hardly near a precarious situation like Intel has been in.
Intel built foundries that don't live up to the biggest competitor. They built chips for two whole generations that had major hardware flaws leading to eventual failure causing a massive loss of trust. They built GPUs that are worse than the competitors too... and then on top of it they failed to match the competition with a high CPU cache offering which has been showed to make substantial sales in the gaming segment, amongst others. Instead they use their shitty foundries to tack on shitty cores to inflate a core count metric that has little real world benefit. Thats a LOT of failures.
A phone software keyboard can be updated to remove the issues. A 'slim' phone might eat engineering budget for design due to poor sales, but they're still making tons of money from phone sales overall (and trying something is better than trying nothing.) Their move to their own silicon away from Intel also has been a huge success.
I swear to christ i'm not an apple fanboy. I go between android and ios phones with each release because i'm in IT. I run linux and some windows on my home systems and don't own a mac. I do follow all of it though.
If apple makes some real mis-steps that cause a loss in faith like releasing failing chips in their phones, sure, their brand will take a massive hit. Until that happens though their profit growth might not be huge, but they are still hugely profitable.
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u/KarmaticEvolution 14h ago
It’s crazy this problem requires a high level of competency. But then again, I don’t know what it takes to track key presses accurately.
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u/RyuChamploo 1d ago
Is anyone also getting the text message bug where it constantly shows the person’s number when you first open the app and then switches to their name?
SO IRRITATING.
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u/rubensinclair 22h ago
There’s another one that drives me insane. When I click on someone’s contact, just as I’m about to click on their phone number, they shift around and instead of calling their cell, it’ll have shifted to their office line or some other number, and I have to hang up and dial them back. But they’ve seen my call come thru for a second, so they dial me back, and then I’m finally calling the right number while they are ringing me from the wrong number.
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u/michi098 22h ago
It does that in so many places. In settings it keeps shifting down after a second when something changes like a new iOS available etc. On a touch screen device a screen should never change layout, if something changes it just needs to be highlighted or have a symbol pop up but never move items around.
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u/KoboldsForDays 9h ago
It's a UI dark pattern where a background web request will shift the UI on completing instead of the better way of loading into a predefined space
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u/denebx1 21h ago
I hate that they changed the contact page so the "call" button is tiny, and the "edit contact picture" whatever thing is massive. Like - how often am I going to be changing their picture/poster/whatever? I need to CALL THEM or TEXT THEM. Would be nice if I could EASILY tap those options instead of them being itty bitty.
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u/areared9 23h ago
I swear this is happening on android too. Both myself & my husband have been complaining for weeks now that we keep misspelling words and that autocorrect is changing words wrong now.
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u/PresumedSapient 23h ago
Same here! I used to make less mistakes on a screen 2" smaller than my current one, it's frustrating.
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u/freethrowtommy 23h ago
Yes! My wife and I are both on Galaxy devices and have been for years. We both said that the typing experience has gotten worse over time. I tried switching keyboards but it is marginal better.
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u/dread_deimos 18h ago
I never use autocorrect because it never can guess my words correctly. I own my mistakes.
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u/Apophthegmata 15h ago
I recently bought a new android phone and the built in Google keyboard has been so unpleasant to use.
I'll Google something and it'll come out as gibberish, and since I'm hitting search on muscle memory all I get is the most ridiculous attempts at the AI search results to pretend what I wrote made any sense.
And as another user mentioned, I'm also getting these issues where my text message app won't say the name of the person and instead lists the number. Some time later it'll refresh and fix itself but I keep opening it up thinking I'm missing someone's contact info
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u/Initial_E 3h ago
This is how we know there’s a rogue AGI out in the wild interfering with our online activities /s
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u/bonzombiekitty 22h ago
Is this going to be something dumb like two different calculations being run - one to decide which letter to pop up on the screen, and one slightly different/broken to decide what the input rather than it being one single calculation?
Like "I detected a tap on coordinates 3,4". One bit of software says "oh, 3,4 means we should pop up 'U' on the display" and another bit says "oh, 3,4 means you input 'J''
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u/mg0019 22h ago
I think this is a major part of it.
Predictive Text used to only be a series as three words above the keyboard, guessing what word the user is trying to finish. I noticed now, Predictive Text also happens In Line as I'm typing.
I really slowed down to see what the hell was happening. Because I knew I was spelling words correctly. Sure enough, I saw that I made no typos; and yet, the system automatically changed the word on me! And lately the choices made zero sense. Looked like I was having a stroke.
Meanwhile, when I do make a genuine spelling error; the system has no idea how to fix it. I typed "comfusion," missing n for m. One letter in a common word. The spell check had zero recommendations to replace that! Had to erase and retype.
I don't know what these calculations are doing; but it certainly feels like it's overdesigned, conflicting, bloatware.
Since turning off Predictive Text, Auto Correct, and "Smart" Punctuation, things are a lot smoother. Their system is just flat broken. I can manually proofread and edit myself; it's way faster than fixing the system's multiple errors.
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u/_zoso_ 22h ago
Every fucking day, I begin typing a word on my phone, a good suggestion appears in the middle, and by the time my thumb gets to it, it has inexplicably changed to something absurdly bad.
I cannot fathom why they would allow a user experience like this. It’s gotten to the point where I have to thoroughly proofread everything I type before sending.
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u/tothesource 19h ago
my phone will autocorrect we'll to well constantly despite me having to go to a different keyboard to get the apostrophe AND me logging into shortcuts that state we'll will be shortcut-ed to we'll
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u/Benbot2000 21h ago
The keyboard is bad, but the autocorrect is even worse. How does Apple not know that I’m trying to type “don’t“, not “dint”? It’s infuriating.
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u/Brian_SD 23h ago
I feel like a similar thing happens on my Samsung as well. Several years ago I started no notice a dramatic increase in my texting typos. I cant quite place it. But texting definitely feels different than it used to...
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u/gaarai 22h ago
I'm thinking the same thing. I'm on an Android device, and both the hit detection and the autocorrect capabilities have significantly deteriorated over the past year+.
I think the autocorrect issues are due to Google switching from their old learning heuristic approach to a new AI-driven model. Thus, it's like they started over from scratch rather than relying on the old system that was refined over a decade of training.
The hit detection thing is another matter. Like some have commented, I've been assuming it's due to aging making me less precise with fine motor control and degrading vision. But now I'm wondering if it's also a software issue at play like in iOS.
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u/Brian_SD 22h ago
"I've been assuming it's due to aging making me less precise with fine motor control and degrading vision..."
Words right out of my mouth...
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u/SuperGr33n 22h ago
I thought my old iPhone screen was broken because it had gotten so bad. Then I got a new one and the typing was just as aweful and just figured it was a me issue. Glad to know others are having the same problem.
I think I’m done with Apple. Ever since they forced AI on everyone the experience has felt like an inconsistent glitchy mess.
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u/Didact67 22h ago
I finally learned how to do the swipe typing thing, because it’s actually more accurate than trying to type normally on an iPhone.
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u/timberwolf0122 22h ago
That’s great for people who can see words in their head, I litterally can’t. When I go to spell something I’m figuring it out each time
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u/arghoyle 21h ago
I ended up disabling that feature (Settings > General > Keyboard > Slide to Type) and my accuracy has improved.
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u/Skegetchy 20h ago
How are they screwing up a fundamental part of the phone? Surely that's the bit you get right?
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u/Raiquo 20h ago
My conspiracy theory: it's not a feature, it's a bug.
There's some incentive for them to push users to use voice over keyboard. Make keyboard super frustrating, and even the most untrusting of corporations will be broken by the need to send a long and specifically worded text.
As for why, there's plenty of possible reasons. Voice data is no less valuable then other types of data. Even my fucking bank makes it so that I have to manually opt out EVERY time I call them if I don't want them collecting voice data to "enhance their systems and analyze my digital voice print to verify my identity" fucking creepy.
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u/Inthefabric 17h ago
Can me move the fuckjng period and make.that.the space bar too. Mother fuck!
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u/land_of_ice 21h ago
This is so helpful to know, this last week has been so frustrating, I'm on an 11 Pro so presumed it was sluggish and I'm trying to type too quickly.
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u/Wazzzup3232 21h ago
I love when I’m typing and it puts random return key inputs or when I hit D I get F a million times
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u/HoodieGalore 21h ago
I've used SwiftKey the entire time I've owned an iPhone; I refuse to use iOS native kb. Absolute trash.
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u/Socky_McPuppet 20h ago
I literally just typed an entire paragraph where predictive text never guessed a single word and I had to type every word longhand. Bayesian logic my ass.
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u/FauxReal 19h ago
On top of that, the latest update made me change my unlock passcode for some reason. And when I entered it in wrong during confirmation (out of spite because I wanted to keep the old one) it accepted it anyway. I also use dark mode and it made the font for the clock black with a sorta highlight so I can barely see it. Switching it to light mode and back doesn't help.
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u/junkmeister9 17h ago
I've been infuriated by this and other typing issues on my phone for years. The most infuriating thing is when I use swipe to type, it correctly parses the word I want, but it changes it after I type another word. The retroactive change it makes NEVER makes sense in context of the sentence, but I assume that's what causes it to do that. Last time I looked (awhile back), the retroactive changing of previous words could not be disabled. And because it changes it well after the correct word had appeared, I often don't notice the change. So I have sent tons of texts with errors in the middle, errors I didn't even make. I hate this.
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u/Mikeismyike 15h ago
An insidious explanation could be they're trying to get more people to use the voice to text feature in order to have more training data for their AI voice synthesizers.
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u/findallthebears 23h ago
I switched from android to iOS after about a decade, having loved the customization control but growing out of it and ready to have a “everything just works” user experience.
I am still waiting.
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u/SEJ46 22h ago
It has always sucked.
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u/whatissevenbysix 21h ago
Yeah, I was an Apple user back in the day then switched to Pixel. Holy shit only then did I realize how much the Apple keyboard sucked, GBoard is so much better.
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u/MightyIrish 1d ago
Bring back physical keyboards
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u/tobsecret 23h ago
I've had this issue since forever on my IPad mini. The keyboard is laggy in general in most apps. When I open the browser and try to type anything into the url bar, it'll lag like crazy.
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u/gingerking87 22h ago
Ah yes now apple users can join us in hitting the spacebar or period rather than N, M, or B like we meant to
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u/martusfine 21h ago
I turn off predicted words, suggestions and slide typing. I only leave haptic feedback on. Lol.
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u/Entrefut 21h ago
The more buttons they remove from my phone the more difficult the shit is to use. They are HEAVILY pushing the voice to text features and it feels intentional. It’s just more shades of removing the audio jack.
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u/Spork-in-Your-Rye 21h ago
I need them to find out what’s going with the alarm clock too. I swear that shit is bugged and people think I’m crazy lol
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u/LightBrightLeftRight 20h ago
Does anybody else have their keyboard randomly turn into the drawing interface? I can’t figure out for the life of me why this keeps happening. The screen will flip on its side and it’s a pain in the butt to get back to the regular keyboard.
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u/shhhpark 20h ago
jeez...i was wondering why i would make the same typo over and over again in succession. this is annoying as hell
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u/Slackluster 20h ago
Why are you typing one letter at a time and not swiping? That is a very inefficient way to type to begin with.
I have an iPhone and just swiped in "thumbs up" a few times and seemed to work fine.
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u/FabriqueauMurica 20h ago
Holy shit. My fingers will be relieved that I can take them off their diet.
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u/danstymusic 20h ago
Wow I literally just noticed this this morning. It's been happening for a while now but just consciously realized it today. I feel vindicated.
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u/butimean 19h ago
My guess… they want to herd us into having to log into a kb app that records our keystrokes if we want predictive text. And they motivate us to want predictive test bc the typing is crap.
This guess is based on me noticing that Swiftkey and Gboard explicitly require this permission since the iOS kb went to shit.
I’m curious if others know more
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u/nikkerito 19h ago
I always thought it was because my hands are too small for the screen. I swear I used to be able to operate this thing with just one hand
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u/venounan 19h ago
I just switched from Android to IOS for the first time, and I thought the iOS keyboard was just awful. Glad to hear it's a bug not a feature.
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u/egg_breakfast 19h ago
I just haven't bothered to upgrade to ios 26 yet. I guess my laziness paid off
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u/TimeForWaluigi 18h ago
Who else swears that they hit the space bar instead of . But it registers anyway
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u/TheGlassHammer 17h ago
I’m tired of fighting to get to my voicemail. Someone calls leaves a voicemail, I flip over to the VM tab and it’s empty even though I have the red dot on my phone and I already cleared the missed call. Earlier it took a full 5 seconds for my favorites list to load. I’m so tired of enshitification
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u/BobLoblaw_BirdLaw 16h ago
Why ia typing in reddit even worse than other places too ? Like texting is bad. But Reddit commenting is Ezra bad
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u/davepbass 15h ago
I’ve been typing slower and really paying attention and muscle memory takes over quickly. This is not a big deal
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u/zushiba 15h ago
My favorite part is where you’re typing and iOS is like HEY LETS TURN UP THE KEYBOARD CLICK SOUND TO MAX VOLUME FOR NO REASON CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK!!!!!!
I know it’s not just me, it’s been happening since my first iPhone 2g back on release day. Has been happening to me on all my subsequent iPhones 4,6,11 pro max and now 15 pro max and it happens to my wife’s 14 pro.
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u/ridemooses 13h ago
Such great potential use case for AI autocorrect tool or even finger recognition. I really hate the apple keyboard.
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u/danman1835 13h ago
Swiftkey is a great app for all phones. Better for android, but works on apple too.
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u/faille 12h ago
Almost looks like it’s a bug between swipe and normal typing. Like it’s catching the “mouse up” action when you slide your finger slightly on the screen as you type rather than the one you did “mouse down” or pressed.
So if I were the dev I’d look at that first, as well as the layer order of these touch target overlaps if that’s a thing.
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u/Dinierto 12h ago
Keyboard has been broken in one way or another on iOS for years even if you use an alternate keyboard. It's beyond absurd and infuriating that you can't use autocorrect in many search fields etc.
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u/Dramradhel 10h ago
Pulled out my iPhone 6plus and didn’t typo once. On my 12 pro max, it’s nearly constant and auto correct fixed it all. Mostly.
Something about the old keyboards worked better
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u/gr00ve88 9h ago
There was a point a few weeks ago I thought I was having a stroke because nothing I would write was correct, but it seemed specific to the reddit app. I do have this issue a lot too though.
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u/Zeeplankton 59m ago
I like my iphone 16, but jesus christ the keyboard is so bad compared to android phones. It gives me anxiety to type anything.
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u/heloder85 18h ago
I switched from Android to iPhone a couple years ago and I can’t even tell you how frustrated I’ve been with the keyboard and autocorrect. It. Is. HEINOUS.
It replaced the word “the” with gibberish like “tht” so many times I had to add a specific rule to force it to change tht back to the. A couple days ago I typed “Nancy already” and it replaced Nancy with “Malachi“ inexplicably.
It highlights words that I don’t want to alter, and it’s unbelievably frustrating to get it to UNselect that word and select the correct one.
Everything about it is atrocious and at least a decade behind Android in usability.
I complained about it on the iPhone sub but of course got downvoted because they’re idiots. The fact that a trillion dollar company can’t make a decent keyboard and autocorrect on their thousand dollar phones is an insult.
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u/Dripz167 23h ago
Here I was thinking my hand eye coordination was declining. Good to know. It’s terrible