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This is a bigger issue, especially with Apple, than people may realize. I use iOS “Slide to Type”, aka swipe typing, and have noticed over time that among sever
by hopelite 1y ago
This is a bigger issue, especially with Apple, than people may realize. I use iOS “Slide to Type”, aka swipe typing, and have noticed over time that among several other glitchy bad UX issues, there a clear heavy hand on what can be typed that way.
I cannot recall all the specific patterns I have encountered that are basically impossible to write, some very similar in that they have a serious but also innocuous or figure of speech meaning; one I do recall is {color}{sex}, i.e., “white woman” or “blank woman”.
Please try it yourself and let me know if you do not have that experience, because that would be even more interesting.
Note that Apple/iOS will not just make it impossible to write them in that manner without typing it out by individual character, it will even alter the prior word e.g., white or black, once you try to write woman.
It seems the Apple thought police do not have a problem with European woman or African woman though, so maybe that is the way Apple Inc decrees its sub-human users to speak. Because what are we if corporations like Apple (with others being far greater offenders) declared that you do not in fact have the UN Human Right to free expression? We are in fact sub-humans that are not worthy of the human right to free expression, based on the actions of companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Reddit, etc. who deprive people of their free expression, often in collusion with governments.
- GaryNumanVevo 1y agoComplete bollocks, you cannot even type multiple words with spaces via Slide to Type.
- hnuser123456 1y agoGenerally one picks up their finger between words, but different autosuggest logic applies when swiping versus pecking, on both iOS and Android. The keyboard will dynamically adjust the probability of suggesting next words and how easy it is to swipe given words. Generally, it will work against you with technical writing that isn't predictable small talk.
- orev 1y agoThis whole response is being written using slide to type, and it definitely adds spaces after each word. Maybe you’re unaware that it will leave the cursor at the end of the word, with no space, which indicates that if you backspace it will delete the whole word, or replace it in full with one from the predictive word list above the keyboard if it got it wrong. If you keep typing it adds a space automatically.
- GaryNumanVevo 1y agoTheir claim is instantly falsifiable if you have an iPhone
- DamnInteresting 1y ago> This is a bigger issue, especially with Apple, than people may realize. Like he'll it is! I jest. I also use swipe typing, and have for years, but just about daily I consider turning it off. There are so many words it just won't produce, including most profanities. It also fails to do some simple streamlining; for instance, such a predictive system should give priority to words/names that have been used in the conversation thread, but it doesn't seem to. If I'm discussing an obscure word or an unusual name, I often have to manually type it each time. Its predictions also seem to be very shallow. Just a few days ago, on US Independence Day, I was discussing a possible get-together with my family, and tried to swipe type "If not, we will amuse ourselves", and it typed "If not, we will abuse potatoes". Humorous in the moment, but it says a lot about the predictive engine if it thinks I am more likely trying to say "abuse X" than "amuse Y" in that context.