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I was so confused and panicked once I accidentally overwrote some text from an important note on an iPhone. For a few minutes I desperately searched for any me
by vardump 7y ago
I was so confused and panicked once I accidentally overwrote some text from an important note on an iPhone.
For a few minutes I desperately searched for any menus, long presses, weird nearly hidden menus, finger gestures etc. but couldn't discover anything. Apparently there was no way to undo!
After some googling I found out you have to shake the phone a few times. Seriously?
I think there must be a lot of people who simply lost their notes due to a small mistake.
- ajmurmann 7y agoI once shook my phone because I was annoyed by autocorrect repeatedly messing up. The shaking undid more than half the text I had written. I couldn't find a way to redo.
- whatshisface 7y ago"I'll show him to shake me..."
- slovette 7y agoI know this is HN and not Reddit. But this made me lol.
- paggle 7y agoI tried it and got an “Undo Typing” confirmation. Did you?
- saagarjha 7y agoYou get that and then accepting it deletes a large portion of the text.
- KukicAdnan 7y agoThat's what Undo Typing does...
- pegasus 7y agoHe's complaining that Undo is overly agressive, given that there's no (obvious) redo function.
- catalogia 7y agoJust shake it backwards of course.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoHuh? It usually pops up a message asking if you want to undo, which you need to tap. I'm pretty darn sure this is how the feature has worked since it was introduced.
- Aeolun 7y agoProbably, but you do not necessarily expect half your text to disappear when you click accept right?
- IAmGraydon 7y agoWhen a message pops up asking me if I want to undo my typing and I click yes, I do in fact expect the text I typed to disappear.
- pegasus 7y agoHe's complaining that Undo is overly agressive, given that there's no (obvious) redo function.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThat's not the question that was asked.
- IAmGraydon 7y agoThe question that was asked was obviously hyperbolic as the undo function doesn’t just delete half of what you typed.
- ajmurmann 7y agoYou are right. I hadn't used this in a long time. Did it always pop up the dialog? I could have sworn it didn't.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoAs I said, I'm pretty darn sure it has always popped up a dialog. Certainly, the dialog has existed for a very long time, I recall seeing it on my first gen iPad, when I was in High School. (I graduated college three years ago.)
- bouke 7y agoShake once more, it'll offer to redo.
- xvector 7y agoThe gesture is now a two-finger swipe back. For some reason Apple couldn’t be bothered to add an “undo” to the cursor dialogue though.
- ryall 7y agoThanks for the two-finger tip, just lost a whole block of text in slack ;)
- lstamour 7y agoSlack has the worst text editor under iOS 13. I can't tell you how many times I've been frustrated by the keyboard disappearing when I want to select and copy or paste text... If the keyboard stayed open like in every other sensible app, I wouldn't have such frustrations editing text, but leaving text edit mode, Apple makes it impossible to edit text with touch at that point...
- drifkin 7y agoI think it's a three-finger swipe, isn't it? Though while trying it out, I did discover that a three-finger tap now shows another menu that makes undo/redo a little easier.
- Bud 7y agoLet's not pretend this is a matter of how Apple "couldn't be bothered". Everything like this is an affirmative choice. All such choices (or their alternatives, like what is being asked for here) have both costs and benefits.
- paggle 7y agoDid you google on a separate device or was it able to preserve the undo stack even through app switching etc?
- vardump 7y agoYeah, luckily I had also an Android flagship device with me. Didn't indeed dare to switch apps at that point!
- nicoburns 7y agoAndroid is even worse in this regard. There really is no way to undo changes in text fields! I'm generally a happy android user, but I find it absolutely infuriating that this hasn't been implemented. Text editing on phones is fiddly, and I've lost quite a few comments/messages due to this issue.
- gryfft 7y agoI have one of the few Android phones with a physical keyboard and I have the dollar sign key mapped to ctrl. I was pleased to discover ctrl-z works the way it should. This doesn't help the vast majority of users, I know, but it's one more thing I love about having a physical keyboard on my phone.
- Izkata 7y agoOh nice! Mine has left-shift and right-shift, I mapped right-shift to ctrl long ago (so I can use screen when ssh'ing from my phone) but never thought to try - undo (and redo, ctrl+y) both work here too.
- JadeNB 7y ago> I have one of the few Android phones with a physical keyboard What phone? Do you recommend it?
- Fnoord 7y ago> What phone? Do you recommend it? I have a Cosmo Communicator. No comment yet on recommendation (or not). F(x)tec is another one.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoBlackBerry KeyOne or Key2. I have the KeyOne and would recommend the Key2. Typing is not any faster than on glass, but it's purposeful and generally error-free, which is a much better experience in my opinion. Also, you don't need to look at the keys.
- wruza 7y agoAnd when you shake it, in russian language it asks “Don’t apply typing of text” with buttons “Don’t apply” and “Cancel”. Years before its title was “Don’t apply (Input)” with same buttons. Maybe because in russian Undo == Cancel and they had no courage to make it “Undo”: “Yes” - “No”.
- kienkien 7y agoApple think if people panic they will shake they phone. Really clever