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Posted by walterbell 12/11/2025

iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video](www.youtube.com)
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mcphage 12/11/2025|
What.are.you.talking.about.the.iOS.keyboard.is.just.fine
AnotherGoodName 12/11/2025||
This isn't just double space = '.' either since you can just turn that off in options.

iOS also changes the keyboard layout depending on usage. So when you're in a browser like safari or Chrome and you tap the address bar which these days is 99% used as a search bar with no particular need for a prominent '.' you get a prominent '.' for no good reason.

A huge '.' right next to the space that's not even correctly recognizing the touch area in a context where you actually likely type '.' less often than any other form of writing. You cannot change this behavior.

Fwiw i made a mistake of switching to iOS from Android due to a lot of peer pressure. "iOS is better, you should switch" the wife said. Well I've switched. Now i have a terrible keyboard, i don't have any call screening and non existing text spam filtering. I'm yet to see any improvements.

rogerrogerr 12/11/2025||
There’s two great reasons to have a prominent . key in the search/address bar:

1. For typing actual web addresses

2. More importantly, for typing “site:reddit.com”

nixpulvis 12/11/2025|||
I remember when this first became an issue, then they tweaked something and I noticed it a lot less. Something changed again recently (last couple years) where this is happening a lot again.

I appreciate how Apple pioneered the touchscreen mobile device, largely due to the implementation of the keyboard, but it needs to be more stable than this.

rationalist 12/11/2025|||
Rhe Androidmkeyboard is jusr fine roo.
striking 12/11/2025|||
SwiftKey was actually good. I could pound out a solid 30WPM without even trying, no typos. But then they added a "Ask Bing" context menu item to all my selections after an update and after leaving it on principle I've been suffering ever since.
pzo 12/11/2025|||
Yeah also I thinkc they rewrote it in some crappy way because app got so bad and laggy and irresponsible that I had to remove it.
mackeye 12/11/2025|||
try thumb-key [0] if you're willing to go for something unorthodox :-) the swipe-style keyboard cut my typos by ~90% (though i was particularly bad at using phone keyboards, lol).

[0]: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

verall 12/11/2025|||
this is what all of my texts from my pixel look like

but it's nice to hear it's no better for the apples. misery enjoys company :)

oulipo2 12/11/2025|||
that's the most annoying to me, when they put a large "enter" key, or "@" or "." just next to the space, and you want to type with both hands, and you keep hitting that with the right thumb
altairprime 12/11/2025||
Yeahxright, worksnfor me
iJohnDoe 12/11/2025||
I swear I have felt like I have dealt with this for the last few years on iPhone. So frustrating. It has forced me to use the the dictation feature.
swah 12/11/2025|
Using raycast for dictation has been pretty great for me (longer sentences ofc). I wish apple would just acquire and integrate, with local models one day this will be crazy fast.
inetknght 12/12/2025||
Touchscreens are an awful user interface. You'll never change my mind.

I want an iPhone but without a touch screen. Give me a damn real physical keyboard.

browningstreet 12/11/2025||
Another problem I'm having is.. with the latest iOS public betas, when you swipe down to bring up Siri search, it takes 2-4 seconds for the keyboard to show up. Every time. Went to an Apple store and they said, "re-install from scratch". Which isn't really easy these days, given work MFA accounts etc.
mikestew 12/11/2025||
It’s a beta, Apple Store isn’t going to help. File a bug, as Apple is famous for their timely bug feedback and fixes (that would be a strongly sarcastic statement, for those that have not dealt with Radar).
browningstreet 12/11/2025||
I'm aware of the beta trap.. and I'm waiting for the final release to come out to see what happens, but given that we're on the 2nd RC, I'm willing to bet all my money that the bug persists.
altairprime 12/11/2025||
Did you file a beta report about the issue using Feedback Assistant? If not, include a screen recording.
browningstreet 12/11/2025||
Yes, and I'll file again after the final production release. Neither of the RCs resolved it.
koinedad 12/11/2025||
This is a big issue and I’ve noticed I significant decline in my accuracy. Would love to hear a response to this from Apple with proper fix.
lylo 12/12/2025||
The auto-capitalisation of Apple trademarked phrases like Liquid Glass and Apple Intelligence is what really drives me round the bend.
Aachen 12/11/2025||
That learned helplessness at the 2-minute mark... Install a different program if you don't like this one. There are options beyond "submitting a bug report and hoping for the best". The video makes it sound like Apple is some kind of holy spirit to which you can only pray. If there's no good options, and you can't code, you can even get together and fund someone to fix an open source keyboard if it's bothersome enough. There's always more options, especially in software
parliament32 12/11/2025|
Apple severely limits third-party keyboards, see https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1l2gg3r/thirdparty_ios...
efilife 12/12/2025||
"So the playing field isn’t just uneven — it’s tilted like a ski slope."

This is a ChatGPT written post

armandososa 12/11/2025||
I've been suffering from de quervain tenosynovitis for the last 6 months or so. I thought it was the cause I can't type anymore.
burnt-resistor 12/12/2025||
And it's possessed a random, multi-second lag ever since ~2012, even with spell check, replacements, and prediction turned off.
willwade 12/11/2025|
that to me looks like a error in whatever logic is behind the positional error code. You'd think they would have transformer models based on different layouts but maybe some weighting issues going on.. ie I would have thought its a model that is altering based on likelihood weights and maybe something up with that..
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