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I’ve been complaining about the iOS Keyboard for years, and the people I’ve been complaining to would act like I’m insane.

I suspect this last iteration broke it just enough for it to impact more people and make some of the problems I’ve been experiencing mainstream.

But yeah things like deleting when I meant to space, putting an “I” instead of “K” and a bunch of other little things like “thinks” instead of “things”, unintended periods; complete failure of spelling just generating gibberish “x” instead of “c” leading to un-autocorrectable failures; and if you want to reference the name of something that doesn’t fit the grammatical structure of the sentence but isn’t a mainstream item, forget about it.

Also “od” instead of “of”.

Seeing this video is super validating. Emotionally, it does a lot to make me feel vindicated.

Someone was telling me you can install 3P keyboards, does anyone have any recommendations?

dawnerd
What gets me is if it autocorrects the wrong wrong the first time, I can deal with that. It's when I backspace, re-type it the exact same and it autocorrects again - that's a huge UX problem. Then there's the lack of autocorrect where it makes sense, like you're "od" example. I know they probably do need to do a little tap point correction, but whatever they did with this last version is way off. Maybe they're trying to determine viewing angle since that could affect the perceived place you're tapping?
basch
not just the keyboard either, but the text editor box (or address bar /search) in general. i cant count the number of times i try and put the cursor before a word, i see it is before the word, i let go, and the cursor moves to the end of the word. if i wanted it at the end of the word i would have put it there before letting go.

also, the damn period next to n in the address bar. no i didnt mean to type every word in a sentence with a period delimiting between words.

ashdksnndck
If you long press on the space bar and drag left and right, it moves the cursor around. Obscure UX but useful.
ruszki
It has the exact same bug as mentioned above. I solely use the spacebar for cursor movement, and the cursor returns to the end of the line/word at random times. I couldn’t find a pattern when it happens. It’s especially annoying when it happens with something long like a long path in a URL bar.
bschwindHN
> i see it is before the word, i let go, and the cursor moves to the end of the word. if i wanted it at the end of the word i would have put it there before letting go.

Having never implemented something like this, I wonder if the algorithm could take into account how long the cursor lingered on each position before being let go. If it spent significantly longer in a position before the word, and your finger happens to move a little bit when you let go, that slight movement shouldn't affect the cursor position.

Apple is usually pretty good about this stuff but they've really been slipping on the keyboard.

basch
I dont think it is a last second twitch. It's some kind of autocorrection that has decided I meant to do something differently than I meant to.
SoftTalker
Yeah it’s the worst phone keyboard I’ve used, hands down. Every android keyboard has been far superior.
captainregex
the third party ones seem to be suffering in similar ways in my short use

I intended to tie experience where it says short use

I intended to tour type where it says tie

I intended to type type where it says your

I intended to type tour where it says your

jesus…it might be time to consider android

willis936
Just as a sanity check: 3rd party keyboards are an absolutely terrible idea.

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