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I have a personal Android phone and a work iPhone. They both have their pros and cons. But when it comes to keyboards, the iPhone typing experience is far worse

I have a personal Android phone and a work iPhone. They both have their pros and cons. But when it comes to keyboards, the iPhone typing experience is far worse than Android for me.

ok_dad 4y ago
It’s so bad. I switched from Pixel to iPhone and the main gripe I have is the keyboard. It’s the worst autocorrect experience ever. It constantly gets words wrong. The word “and” is constantly replaced with Abe, abs, or something else. Funny enough, just now when I was trying to type those words, it actually replaced them with “and”! Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed.
- fatboy 4y ago
  With both French and English enabled, it sometimes randomly "corrects" the English word "the" to the French word "thé" (meaning "tea" in English), despite every other word so far being English and despite the fact it would make no grammatical sense. Most infuriating of all though is when it lets you think you've got through the gauntlet of perfectly valid words being replaced with nonsensical ones, only for it to swap out the last _two words_ you've typed!
  - interpol_p 4y ago
    I've had that replacement (the -> thé) and have never even enabled or used a French language keyboard on my device. At this point I disable autocomplete and autocorrect completely, on macOS and iOS.
- karolist 4y ago
  I switched from Pixel to iPhone and lasted a week, the keyboard, among many things - was a real deal breaker. MS SwiftKey is a notch better than the rest (even GBoard) on iPhones, but nothing holds a candle to just typing on a stock Pixel's keyboard.
  - mahmoudhossam 4y ago
    Swiftkey doesn't enable swiping unless you give it full access which is worse than gboard.
- Stratoscope 4y ago
  > Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed. [emphasis added] It must have autocorrected your attempt to write "should"?!
  - ok_dad 4y ago
    Yep. Didn’t even notice.
kergonath 4y ago
And it used to be the other way around. Infuriating.
dieulot 4y ago
Kocienda has a twitter thread on this matter (modern iPhone keyboard): https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520 https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520
deergomoo 4y ago
It used to be a lot better. Around iOS 13 (I think?) they moved from a heuristics-based model to a machine learning-based model and it's never been the same since. It's just frustrating now.

I have a personal Android phone and a work iPhone. They both have their pros and cons. But when it comes to keyboards, the iPhone typing experience is far worse than Android for me.

ok_dad 4y ago

It’s so bad. I switched from Pixel to iPhone and the main gripe I have is the keyboard. It’s the worst autocorrect experience ever. It constantly gets words wrong. The word “and” is constantly replaced with Abe, abs, or something else. Funny enough, just now when I was trying to type those words, it actually replaced them with “and”! Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed.

fatboy 4y ago
With both French and English enabled, it sometimes randomly "corrects" the English word "the" to the French word "thé" (meaning "tea" in English), despite every other word so far being English and despite the fact it would make no grammatical sense. Most infuriating of all though is when it lets you think you've got through the gauntlet of perfectly valid words being replaced with nonsensical ones, only for it to swap out the last _two words_ you've typed!
- interpol_p 4y ago
  I've had that replacement (the -> thé) and have never even enabled or used a French language keyboard on my device. At this point I disable autocomplete and autocorrect completely, on macOS and iOS.
karolist 4y ago
I switched from Pixel to iPhone and lasted a week, the keyboard, among many things - was a real deal breaker. MS SwiftKey is a notch better than the rest (even GBoard) on iPhones, but nothing holds a candle to just typing on a stock Pixel's keyboard.
- mahmoudhossam 4y ago
  Swiftkey doesn't enable swiping unless you give it full access which is worse than gboard.
Stratoscope 4y ago
> Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed. [emphasis added] It must have autocorrected your attempt to write "should"?!
- ok_dad 4y ago
  Yep. Didn’t even notice.

kergonath 4y ago

And it used to be the other way around. Infuriating.

dieulot 4y ago

Kocienda has a twitter thread on this matter (modern iPhone keyboard): https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520 https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520

deergomoo 4y ago

It used to be a lot better. Around iOS 13 (I think?) they moved from a heuristics-based model to a machine learning-based model and it's never been the same since. It's just frustrating now.