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

Posted by ozzyphantom 1 day ago

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android(ios-countdown.win)

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bentt 1 day ago|

Yep! I can’t type on this thjng

halapro 1 day ago||

I don’t think the keyboard is any more broken than it has ever been. It works pretty well for me aside from its awful, awful repeated "corrections" it applies, I delete and it reapplies. This is not new at all.

There are a lot of broken things in iOS, just try any apps in landscape and you'll wonder if QA even realizes the iPhone has landscape.

whicks 1 day ago|

Someone actually took the effort to make a video to show how broken it is, it’s worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

It’s only 2 min 24 sec.

halapro 21 hours ago||

I know the video, again it doesn't matter. I speed type on my phone exactly the same way I used to. I understand how autocorrect works and that it retroactively fixes multiple words later on. I typed this whole comment on my iPhone and I encountered no such issue.

What the video shows could be a problem only if you disable autocorrect or if you want to type a single letter. I made a bunch of errors typing this one and in the end the phone autocorrected it all.

vzaliva 1 day ago||

Why the drama? If you do not like native keyboard, install 3rd party one like Gboard.

Zagitta 23 hours ago||

Because thirdparty keyboards are equally bugged. Sometimes keyboards simply fail to show up or cover app content without rhyme or reason. This happens across multiple thirdparty keyboards so it must be an ios issue.

Someone1234 1 day ago||

3rd Party Keyboards exist, but they don't have the same rights/abilities as Apple's native keyboard, directly resulting in some features/functions being impossible to implement.

vzaliva 1 day ago||

Interesting (I am Android user myself). Any examples of such features?

Someone1234 1 day ago|||

- Apple's keyboard has richer context; third-party keyboards are largely limited to the text proxy (surrounding text/selection) and cannot inspect the host app/see the underlying context of where the text is used/what for.

- No caret/cursor control; cannot reliably set the cursor to arbitrary positions

- No custom dictation pipeline inside the keyboard; must rely on system dictation (or move voice input outside the keyboard).

- No camera access from the keyboard extension; blocks scan-to-type (OCR), QR/barcode capture, etc.

- Can do basic text expansions, but cannot implement privileged automation/macros that interact with other apps/UI or run broadly in the background.

- Due to aggressive lifecycle + tight resource limits constrain large language models/dictionaries; cloud sync/personalization

dabbz 1 day ago|||

The ability to auto-fill the text/email verification codes is a huge one.

singpolyma3 1 day ago||

You can use gboard on iOS and it's a bit better. But still not as good as Android.

ett0018 1 day ago||

Fix your website before the day ends or I'm not upvoting

grishka 17 hours ago||

The one related thing that has always driven me a bit crazy on iOS (which I hardly ever use, only for testing) compared to Android (which I've been using daily since 2011) is how touches register slightly higher than where you're physically tapping. This alone makes hitting small-ish targets, including keyboard keys, quite challenging and infuriating. This does seem intentional too, as it depends neither on the device model nor on the OS version, it's been like that for over a decade at this point.

garyfirestorm 1 day ago||

i believe a lot of us are tired of this mess and will switch. can you enable an option where i could too join on this deadline/timer? this way we can all quit all at once.

ggregoire 1 day ago||

What infuriates me the most is iOS being absolutely unable to detect which language I'm currently writing in and automatically replacing words in one language to another. I write in 3 languages on a daily basis and it's making iOS totally lose its mind. For instance I'm 5 words deep into a message in French with a person I'm only speaking French with, and somehow iOS still thinks I'm making typos every other word and automatically replaces them with English or Spanish words.

And it wouldn't be so bad if moving the cursor at the end of a word or selecting a few letters in a word or even selecting an entire word wasn't nearly impossible on iOS (and I have relatively small fingers… I have no idea how people with big hands can do that stuff). Writing a 10 words messages can take me like 2 minutes sometimes because of all the errors made by iOS that I need to manually fix, and having to retry like 5 times to position the cursor successfully at the end of every word I need to rewrite in the correct language…

nvarsj 1 day ago||

iOS keyboard is such garbage. Almost a daily pain point for me. But I suffer for the amazing battery life and hardware. Like all Apple kit the software is crap.

LowLevelKernel 1 day ago|

It’s also reading your inner thoughts via neurallink

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