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Posted by walterbell 7 days ago

iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video](www.youtube.com)
708 points | 436 commentspage 5
sota_pop 4 days ago|
All commenters here missing the big picture/long game…. Apple just doing their part to poison the well for future LLM training data across the internet. With enough typos littered about the Internet, that’ll really grind foundation LLM trainers’ gears.
grsmvg 7 days ago||
I’m using a 12 mini and I’m running into so many typos since the new iOS. Maybe the combination of buggy software with their smallest screen is making it even worse.
or_am_i 7 days ago||
Wish it was only the keyboard enshittified. Literally everything became worse with the update, I had to google how to turn off the silly transparency (Accessibility Settings -> Display -> Reduce Transparency) so that the battery that used to happily last for the entire day on iOS 18 does not die in a matter of some 4 hours. And don't even get me started on now-always-lagging home screen swipes and the Safari overhaul madness! Wanna close the active tab? That will be three taps, thank you very much. Oh, you want them taps to register _every time_, too? This basic phone UX used to be Apple's major USP over Android, now fewer and fewer reasons to stick to this ecosystem.
grsmvg 7 days ago||
For the power users: you can swipe up from the bottom URL bar and then swipe from rtl on a thumbnail to close. That’s two actions instead of three.

You can also swipe right or left on the URL bar to switch tabs.

Alternatively hold the URL bar and press close.

apparent 7 days ago||
Is there anything in iOS 26 that makes it worth updating for an older iPhone? I am holding out for now, based on the bad reviews regarding battery impact.
n8cpdx 7 days ago||
Please, save yourself, stay away. It is a buggy, slow mess on a 16 Pro.

I paid for 120hz but it can’t even hit 60 on the Home Screen :(

apparent 7 days ago||
Thank you! I was thinking of moving over at 26.1, but it sounds like maybe I'll have to stay away for even longer. Honestly there isn't a lot that I'm excited about, other than perhaps call screening. But I can do that by just sending callers to voicemail and seeing watching the transcript come in on iOS 18.
tbensky 7 days ago||
I have a lot of trouble texting, independent of the issues here. I'm just clumsy and can't seem to do it in any productive way.

I'm working on this keyboard substitute with larger keys and split up keyboards: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icantext/id6748927092. Give it a try if you want.

skygazer 7 days ago|
Why is the first row oversized and sliding back and forth with keys sliding off screen. Hitting letters on this moving row is like a carnival game. Is that intentional or a bug on my Pro Max phone?
tbensky 6 days ago||
Hi! Thanks for trying it. The "slow sway" is part of the plan! It's so the oversized first row of a qwerty keyboard can show all possible letters on the top row. If it feels too much like a game, slow it down using the main app from your home screen.
stanislavb 6 days ago||
WTF Apple. And, yes, I've been the same boat. Thank for pinpointing that this is not me but rather another genius Apple design.
dacox 6 days ago||
The iPhones autocorrect is one of my biggest frustrations coming from Android a few years ago. The biggest frustration for me is the tendency to correct the _second to last word_. I have never gotten used to this. I know i can stop it by "clicking" on the word instead of hitting space - but that feels slow and bad.
simoncos 1 day ago||
I thought it was my own problem
ChrisArchitect 7 days ago||
It's Not Just You https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
walterbell 7 days ago|
This thread has more comments than all previous submissions combined.
ChrisArchitect 7 days ago||
Understood. Just highlighting the number of submissions of this thing for 2 months over and over with interest but little traction.
nothercastle 7 days ago||
Any one know why the iPhone will put a random v or similar letter in the text by itself? It’s a really annoying bug.
socalgal2 6 days ago||
I detest Apple's, and Google's, and Amazon's, and nearly every tech company's feedback system.

Apple's is by far the worst. All feedback is private. There is no way to show or advertise support for feature. Like I want to go upvote the feedback from this video, but all I can do is file my own feedback, which is more work, and therefore more people will choose not to give any.

Both Apple and Google and Microsoft have "users help users". These are infuriating as there is no official answer or help. There's just some fan with an often completely wrong or irrelevant answer. There is zero indication that any of these companies look here to see what's broken.

RankingMember 6 days ago|
You've reminded me of the hellscape of Microsoft's "help" forums filled with people asking specific questions and getting their question closed with a barely-relevant response followed by many others commenting, essentially, "me too! why won't anyone help us?"
Grisu_FTP 6 days ago|
Worst thing about iOS keyboard is that it corrects the last word when hitting send before even showing what it would change.

When i hit send, i want to send the message that is on my screen, not the message iOS thinks i meant to send.

(And that you cant just click into the middle of a word to edit one letter)

verytrivial 6 days ago|
I can't comprehend how that's even an issue. Like it's the sort of thing you might read in an old bug report online and go "wow, that must have been an awkward few days for everyone" but to hear that it is "normal"? Wild. Utterly unacceptable.
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