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The recent changes to the iOS keyboard and text editing in general have been very counter productive for me as well. Tap to select doesn't really work the same
by srmatto 8mo ago
The recent changes to the iOS keyboard and text editing in general have been very counter productive for me as well. Tap to select doesn't really work the same way anymore and the logic of it isn't clear to me which makes it unpredictable. Typing accurately itself has gotten really difficult. I used to be a pretty quick typist on the iOS keyboard but now I find myself looking for my Mac to send a message from there or using voice to text more.
Folks can thumb their noses at Reddit but the top comment in every post about iOS updates since 26.0 was released is some variation of "fix the keyboard." The problem seems very real for a lot of users.
- raylad 8mo agoAlso why did they get rid of select all? Is there any excuse for that?
- DamnInteresting 8mo agoIt's still there, it's just difficult to know when it will appear. Sometimes it takes one more tap than expected, or sometimes one must deselect a word and tap again, or change focus away and back again. Very sloppy UI.
- filoleg 8mo agoYeah, it is still there, and there is a pretty clear cut logic for when it will appear. If you tap while a word is selected, it won’t appear. If you tap on the cursor while a word isn’t selected, it will appear.
- DamnInteresting 8mo agoIf by "clear cut logic" you mean a consistent process, then sure. But if you mean intuitive, I must disagree.
- microtonal 8mo agoEspecially because it was working fine and understandable in older iOS versions. Also for some reason autocorrect seems to have gotten a lot worse. It has become nearly impossible to type a grocery list without all kinds of annoying wrong corrections.
- filoleg 8mo agoYeah, good point. Your guess was right, I meant it in the sense of consistency, not in the sense of it being intuitive without knowing about it
- bobbylarrybobby 8mo agoSelect all always appears if you have no text selected and never appears if you have some text selected. Insane UI decision by apple but that's how it is.
- thehappyfellow 8mo agoWhich means you can't select all on text which isn't editable - insane!
- leptons 8mo agoIt honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been. It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the great UX people claim they do.
- tambourine_man 8mo agoI actually prefer the all caps keyboard and switch it on on iOS. It looks like a physical keyboard and the constant flicking between upper/lowercase is distracting and annoying
- leptons 8mo agoWell good for you, I guess?
- b112 8mo agoAs bfinn once said on IRC, as he wrote in caps: <BFINN/#debian> ALL BIG LETTER ON KEYBOARD HERE!! <CosmicRay/#debian> haha <BFINN/#debian> TO NO LITTLE LETTER! https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.misc/c/7AdXvE7KQzk/m/N7y3Z4yAi_cJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.misc/c/7AdXvE7KQz...
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- jorl17 8mo agoYES. WHY?! GOD WHY!?!!?!?!?! I'M GOING INSANE!!
- razingeden 8mo agoMy favorite ( /s) IOS hassle - aside from running around on 12% battery at all times, didn’t I buy a pro max for the extended capacity ? - … is not being able to paste into an empty box unless I type a letter there and select it/clobber it/overwrite it And I just LOOOOOVE not being able to tap a URL in safari and get to the end of it to add parameters or change a path anymore… Just gave my MacBook that hasn’t been turned on in months away(i haaaaate Tahoe) and been using GrapheneOS on a pixel 7a. so far I’m not in love with it but I’m getting used to it and starting to like downloading apps anonymously (if I name the app, I’ll probably get scolded) anyway this might be the end of the line for me and Apple.
- everdrive 8mo agoThey're a modern tech company. They need to changes things every so often no matter what downsides come with the change.
- hypercube33 8mo agoIt's not just apple - windows and android autocorrect are more auto incorrect these days.
- soco 8mo agoI can't tell about windows - never used autocorrect there - but GBoard became laughable. I don't think I was able to use its suggestions since a few years. For instance, it will NEVER but really never put a uppercase I when I'm talking about myself. Never. I could select it from suggestions if I feel like, but I kinda gave up (this is written in Windows, that's why you see capital Is). Or my name, used quite often right, is also never spelled correctly - although it's there in the suggestions. I am using a yahoo email, GBoard knows the username, but it will ALWAYS suggest a gmail extension, which simply doesn't exist. I don't know any other keyboard which can properly handle multiple languages, so I'm stuck with GBoard, but it's nothing to be proud of.
- netsharc 8mo agoI have the same email @yahoo.com and @gmail.com (one is mostly for online shops etc), and the amount of time GBoard thinks it needs to recommend @gmail.com, it's obnoxious... But the correction offers are still okay for me, I can mash keys around my email username and one of the corrections offered will be my username...
- owenthejumper 8mo agoSwiftKey can handle languages, but it kind of sucks too , lol. It crashes all the time
- soco 8mo agoNo it cannot. SwiftKey has exactly two "languages": one is French, the other is German/English/Italian/Romanian. Yes it's a mash of all four, which makes the default swiped word and the suggestions exactly useless. Who the hell thought that was a good idea... only Samsung keyboard offers separate languages as well, but it's kinda worse in suggestions than GBoard.
- mrmuagi 8mo agoAutocorrect not getting simple character substitutions is beyond frustrating.
- notorandit 8mo agoDo you know a corrector that "understands" a typo at the third or fourth character? If it's 1st or 2nd, then it's ok.
- longfacehorrace 8mo agoIt's not just the keyboard. My iPhone 15 is often so unresponsive I am tapping twice as much. Example but the issue not limited to web browsing; Safari will do nothing, I tap again, it does the thing, then it does the thing again due to the second tap. I have to tap back to get to where I really wanted to go.
- itopaloglu83 8mo agoSounds like the liquid glass animations are so heavy that if the system is busy with anything else for a second then everything simply breaks. I remember seeing the videos about cpu usage spiking over 40% just to show the control center. And similarly, even on a Mac I find myself clicking on links and button multiple times, just for things to work. It has a dedicated keyboard, how is it that they messed it up so much that a physical keyboard stops working. It's an interrupt based interface, it takes less than a millisecond to process things, how can someone mess things up so freaking stupidly.
- longfacehorrace 8mo agoShortcuts run but often do not trigger all the stages in a pipeline. No issues with same shortcuts prior to installing iOS26. These Shortcuts do not trigger UI transitions. They send data over network. Sounds like Apple management enabled a quality assurance failure that is fostering so many distractions for users it's turning people against Apple. Tim Cook handing his replacement a dumpster fire.
- seec 8mo agoThat was basically the whole point of it. Apple makes money selling hardware; they have a vested interest in making things slower/worse to incentivize people to buy newer hardware. This is why you can never really trust Apple and also why no matter how bad Windows gets, it's still a better deal because at least you can count on the fact that PC businesses will compete on the hardware front to get your money. Choosing Apple is a lot like being in an abusive relationship; you can't leave because the switching cost are quite high, so you tolerate a lot more abuse than you would be willing to otherwise. And this is the reason people try to not rely on Apple software too much; if you do, they truly have you by the balls.
- winternett 8mo agoThe same things are happening on Android too, no coincidence.
- Fr0styMatt88 8mo agoWhat I don’t get is why it can’t tell I’ve gone back and edited a suggestion or correction it gave me and correct itself in the future.