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There appears to be some speculation about something changing on the iOS keyboard / autocorrect, causing it to get worse in the past few years. You're not alone

• stevage 5y ago
  Meanwhile I think Android's has gotten a lot better.
  • smcl 5y ago
    This is interesting, I used Android briefly around 2011-2012 and found text entry to be quite frustrating so if it's improved I'll need to revisit it.
• Tsarbomb 5y ago
  Based on my experience with my iphone, I have a suspicion they've optimised somehow for people having fatter fingers. I've noticed that sometimes the auto correct assumes I mean to press a character next to the one I wanted.
  • bgro 5y ago
    This actually would make a lot of sense. My previous guess was the original version had spaghetti code (ex: lots of hard coding edge cases), and they tried to move it to a more standardized / maintainable code block that hasn't been fully brought up to speed. The guess was based on a interview video I saw discussing the various prototypes for the original iphone keyboard.