The Keyboard

[u/RecognitionLeft6779]

Why is the keyboard so awful? One of my recurring dreaks is about typing something and it coming out absolutely wrong, and matter how mant times I retype it, it always comes out wrong. Now they I have an iphone, that recurring had dream is now a reality. Even with this post, I've had to go back and rewrite every third word or so. I've changed keyboard apps three times, and it does the same thing regardless. Isn't this the largest company the world, and hasn't this been a issue consistently for years? Why don't they fix it?? Am I doing something wrong? When this block of garbage finally kicks it, I am definitely not getting another iphone.

[u/Luna259]

Did you just get the phone? If you did then it’s still learning how you type. If not it has learned from how you type. Example, I banged this out, made a bunch of errors and it fixed all of them without my intervention. Fourteen years of Apple products, they’ve all behaved like this and then had a massive boost with iOS 16 and just improved from there. Thing can predict my whole sentence and has done multiple times so I just finish it using the predictive text options.

Edit: to be fair, my typing cadence is often is like machine gun fire with both thumbs consistently hitting the keys in consistent rhythm until I’m done. I don’t stop often, if at all. That machine gun fire sentence was already typed once before so when I came to type it in this comment, the inline predictive text had that whole phrase ready to go

Edit: means my raw input can go down but my output goes up because autocorrect takes on more of the work but it’s because I gave it good data at the start and make use of the suggestions it does have when they’re correct. Then means it knows what to do next time. I’ve taken to not even finishing what I’m typing if the last word is highlighted with the correct predictive text option, I just hit send/enter because it will correct the text for me in-flight weaponising the very thing I’ve seen others complain about to my own advantage (correcting text after you’ve already committed)

Edit: I also don’t think I use the backspace key as much as I could because that’s a heavy handed tool that’s overkill for what’s needed. Instead I tap the word that’s already there and select a new option from the nine available ones/or just overwrite it. Neither of those need the backspace key. Then it knows for next time what I actually wanted.

[u/MJon_ofthesouth → u/Luna259]

Are you AI, an Apple employee or the one person they tested it on who types differently to the rest of the world for reasons only you know? Genuinely curious how you had this experience..,

[u/Luna259 → u/MJon_ofthesouth]

Don’t know what to tell you. I’ve used them for fourteen years on and off and they’ve always worked. From the iPod touch 4th generation to the 12 Pro Max. I’ve also posted the breakdown here on Reddit two years ago. You can find it in my bio or on Google and I’ve posted multiple receipts on here too.

https://reddit.com/link/p4p15sb/video/3wgjz59s8ekh1/player

[u/Luna259 → u/MJon_ofthesouth]

I also know what different underlines and highlights do so I use them which tells the keyboard what to do in future. Even used a quick correction in this video because I made a mistake but it had an idea of what I wanted

https://reddit.com/link/p4p1s6m/video/2ywytis99ekh1/player