Like the title says, coming from android (more specifically pixel)
I did enjoy the inital promise of customization offered on android devices, but for whatever reason Google has done away with huge portions of that freedom and weirdly “pure android” has started to feel more like IOS.
Much to my pleasant surprise apple has fixed a huge number of my complaints with iOS since my last iPhone 7 years ago. To be frank I used to shit on iPhone but am eating a lot of crow here admitting that they definitely fixed most of their shortcomings and are clearly pulling away in the smartphone race (like you needed me to tell you that)
That being said… HOW HOW HOW is the iPhone keyboard so bad? I know this sounds like a small problem but when I last used an iPhone years ago, the period placement (near the space bar) caused me to constantly fat finger random periods into most of my searches and messages. It’s hideous design and I can’t understand for the life of me how apple hasn’t solved this wart of a problem. Especially because I KNOW that most people who work at apple are aware of the issue because it affects basically anyone with an iPhone! LOL
Not only is it an old, know issue, but it’s an obvious one that actually causes inconvenience. Not just the period, the entire board is cramped and it’s genuinely difficult to type on compared to Gboard, which I am using now to type this. It took me a few days to realize I could use gboard on IOS and HOLY SHIT is the difference night and day. I actually feel bad for all the people (most) using the stock iOS keyboard. It was like being stuck in hell lol
Just bewildered by how apple has solved so much yet somehow ignored this simple fix for going on a decade
You can download Gboard for iPhone since you were used to it on your pixel if im not wrong (i did too when i switched to ios the iphone keyboard was hella hard)
As someone who’s had iPhone since iPhone 3G, the keyboard has gotten so much better and worse at the same time. One great workaround for me has been to add your common fat-finger errors to the keyboard shortcuts to compensate. For example, I “lol” a lot, but would fat finger “lop” alot. So you just add a shortcut so the phrase “lop” automatically gets changed to “lol”.
Yes it’s kinda annoying I get it, but English is annoying too lol. Now try having the English and Spanish keyboards on at the same time, it can be a nightmare lol 😅
That’s why Gboard does not work for me for example, because I use English and Romanian, and aside for a few special characters, it’s the same character set. But I have to rely solely on G board knowing or predicting what word I’m typing or what language I’m typing. The Apple keyboard, the way, it is still works better for me because I can force it to a specific language.
i need to figure out my my autocorrect keeps chaging “bus” into “bud”. So god damn annoying.
I agree, autocorrect would sometimes auto-uncorrect a word that was perfectly fine. I had to do the same trick above, but to just make sure it stuck to my word.
So “lol” phrase will always be “lol”… freakin iPhone sometimes lol
The keyboard on the mini is horrible, I’m constantly mistyping words or hitting the suggested words at the top randomly. So frustrating
I agree and all the improvements in iOS 17 only made it worse.
I had to correct that sentence twice 👏👏👏
Download Gboard. Helps a little
I find it to be much better. Spell check actually works and doesn’t inject random gibberish too.
Imma be honest im so conditioned to the iphone keyboard other keyboards fuck me up. Ive used it since ios 1.
So on your app store, search/download"Gboard". Open the app, follow the instructions. Gboard is 100% is a better keyboard than the original ios keyboard
it’s is but it’s 53% worse than Gboard on Android is lol
Oh my god thank you for posting this, I had NO CLUE iPhone brought keyboard haptics back!!! Feels so much better now, +1 to OP
My only complaint is that it doesn’t have a built in clipboard.
I think the issue is with the return key, which is normally a big key and people got used to clicking the left part of the key to press return. However, on Safari, that return key is split into full stop and return key and people subconsciously click that full stop thinking of return key.
For me iPhone keyboard is hundred times better than Samsung or Google… I don’t know why I hate keyboards in Android phones…
It was good four or five years ago but for some reason, Apple changed it.
It was good before four or five years ago but for some reason, Apple changed it.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m too lucky with the one good iPhone 14pro that was made cuz damn, the things people complain about…