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I've been using iPhone >10 years and cannot agree more. One example: from iOS 7 (that flat UI), I began to make much more frequent typos than ever before. Befor

I've been using iPhone >10 years and cannot agree more. One example: from iOS 7 (that flat UI), I began to make much more frequent typos than ever before. Before that, I didn't make much typo before the update even without looking at the keyboard but not anymore after the update. What I heard is that Apple did extensive studies on usability of virtual keyboard when it's launching iPhone and as a result keyboard visual on the screen was intentionally off from the actual layout based on actual typing patterns. And for some reason it seems they scrapped that idea, or at least changed it significantly. Don't know why. Maybe I'm an outlier and everyone else is happier with the change. But this is just one example; almost every 2~3 years, I've experienced a noticeable level of degradation of my typing accuracy, though not as much as the iOS 7 change. I wonder if there's anyone else whose experience matches to mine.

mickelsen 4y ago
Nope, you are not alone. I noticed this change starting with iOS 7 too and compared side-by-side back in those years. I could type very quickly with either one or both hands, and made almost no mistakes. So yeah, it seemed that they changed the position or the targets of the 'keys' because I wasn't hitting the right ones in iOS 7, usually shifted by one letter to the side but my mind sort of calibrated for the rest of the word. Then I switched between different iPhone sizes over the years, so all my experiences later were different. This still keeps happening to me but now the autocorrect on the phone gets the word I was intended to type, so it's less annoying but long gone are those days of keyboard perfection.
wruza 4y ago
Yep, ios 7 was the first version where I had to become conscious of where my touch lands vs where I see my finger over the letters. It’s both amazing how they could nail it from the beginning and then allow some idiot to break it and start a spiral of “degenerative enhancements” every few years.

mickelsen 4y ago

Nope, you are not alone. I noticed this change starting with iOS 7 too and compared side-by-side back in those years. I could type very quickly with either one or both hands, and made almost no mistakes. So yeah, it seemed that they changed the position or the targets of the 'keys' because I wasn't hitting the right ones in iOS 7, usually shifted by one letter to the side but my mind sort of calibrated for the rest of the word. Then I switched between different iPhone sizes over the years, so all my experiences later were different. This still keeps happening to me but now the autocorrect on the phone gets the word I was intended to type, so it's less annoying but long gone are those days of keyboard perfection.

wruza 4y ago

Yep, ios 7 was the first version where I had to become conscious of where my touch lands vs where I see my finger over the letters. It’s both amazing how they could nail it from the beginning and then allow some idiot to break it and start a spiral of “degenerative enhancements” every few years.