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The thing I still feel is missing from the iPhone keyboard design is some concept of clear intention from the user: it doesn't just correct near misses, it will
by saurik 4y ago
The thing I still feel is missing from the iPhone keyboard design is some concept of clear intention from the user: it doesn't just correct near misses, it will also do ridiculous autocorrections where a few characters will somehow autocorrect--and to be clear for people who don't use it (or people who do but don't spend any time configuring it): I do NOT mean the autocomplete nonsense that I always have turned off--into giant words. I clearly didn't try to type a ten character word if I only hit the screen four times, right? It also should calm down if I start actively typing slower and with clear intention: if I'm suddenly typing at one character per second when I'm usually typing at five characters per second, it should probably just trust that I'm looking at the keyboard and tighten the bounds on its attempt to fix my mistakes.
- aikinai 4y agoAgree; this was great at the time, but I feel like they’ve barely updated it since then. At least they finally added a somewhat useable swipe mode, but it’s still far behind what Google has done.
- solarkraft 4y agoI think their swipe input is only a little behind. FWIW I also think that Google's has become worse for me. Maybe because I don't let it use the internet.
- s3p 4y agoI use the one-handed keyboard[1] sometimes and swipe has always been great on that one. not so much on the main keyboard though. [1] https://www.iphonelife.com/content/how-to-enable-one-handed-keyboard-ios-11-iphone https://www.iphonelife.com/content/how-to-enable-one-handed-...
- gnicholas 4y agoIt’s become more powerful, which means it can correct things in ways it previously couldn’t, but it can also screw things up in new ways. For example, autocorrect used to be limited to words with the same number of chars, and with letters in the same order. Now it can autocorrect to a word with more or fewer chars, and with some transpositions. It’s good this is now possible, since people do make mistakes like this. But it opens the door for new types of errors. One issue I find to be annoying is that it gives too much weight to the first char in a word when making its guess. I’ve learned that if it gets the first char wrong I should probably go back and correct it, unless it’s a very long word that will become apparent over time.