Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

I saw the video and understand the problem but I cannot simulate it. The keyboard always works great for me. Could it be that this bug is related to AI? Or some language settings?

Why the drama? If you do not like native keyboard, install 3rd party one like Gboard.

WOW I've spent years thinking that I suck at typing on phone screens, I never even considered that it might be the keyboard software is just shitty....

I thought it was only me.

The autocomplete has a preference for proper nouns, even when they make zero sense .

The next suggested word is, at best, naive. Using the previous word, it would be clear that the subsequent suggestion would not be reasonable.

I wasn't aware it does it insidious. I always assumed I miss typed something, not that the phone itself was messing things up.

/sign

It’s also reading your inner thoughts via neurallink

Very related for those not familiar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo (2min 24sec)

I feel like I’m the only one without major issues here. The autocorrect works, the keys I tap are right. Going to Android with the Android Keyboard drives me nuts.

I thought they fixed the bug where autocorrect would add text but repeat one word in the middle so it would look like: “I’m trytrying to”

Been an issue for two years or so. Resetting, all that doesn’t help.

I prefer the iOS keyboard than over the Android ones. Why does my autocorrect work fine and my keys and swipe typing work, but not yours?

You send an email to customer service to complain. I build a whole ass website to complain. We are not the same.

Yep! I can’t type on this thjng

The problem with Linux phone is app support. I dont know how it can compete with Apple or Android.

> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

Here's a more substantive reason to prefer iPhone to Android: Android phones, mine anyway, have no option to suppress audible notification of incoming texts or calls from numbers not found in Contacts.

> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

I know this is somewhat a joke site, but I think admitting this really proves Apple's dominance and doesn't really help in making your case. So long as the walled garden / "platform" approach still works, enshittification will continue

I like it, bookmarked, let's see how this extortion fares

i cannot upvote this enough, the keyboard is a DAILY annoyance, especially selecting words

iOS keyboard is such garbage. Almost a daily pain point for me. But I suffer for the amazing battery life and hardware. Like all Apple kit the software is crap.

What infuriates me the most is iOS being absolutely unable to detect which language I'm currently writing in and automatically replacing words in one language to another. I write in 3 languages on a daily basis and it's making iOS totally lose its mind. For instance I'm 5 words deep into a message in French with a person I'm only speaking French with, and somehow iOS still thinks I'm making typos every other word and automatically replaces them with English or Spanish words.

And it wouldn't be so bad if moving the cursor at the end of a word or selecting a few letters in a word or even selecting an entire word wasn't nearly impossible on iOS (and I have relatively small fingers… I have no idea how people with big hands can do that stuff). Writing a 10 words messages can take me like 2 minutes sometimes because of all the errors made by iOS that I need to manually fix, and having to retry like 5 times to position the cursor successfully at the end of every word I need to rewrite in the correct language…

i believe a lot of us are tired of this mess and will switch. can you enable an option where i could too join on this deadline/timer? this way we can all quit all at once.

I don’t think the keyboard is any more broken than it has ever been. It works pretty well for me aside from its awful, awful repeated "corrections" it applies, I delete and it reapplies. This is not new at all.

There are a lot of broken things in iOS, just try any apps in landscape and you'll wonder if QA even realizes the iPhone has landscape.

The amount of typos in this comment section is pure gold.

It's so bad. I think it has to do with touch targets because the slide to type is great in my opinion.

I thought i learned to forget how to type. knew i wasn't going crazy.

edit: another apple issue i have been hearing about recently is that the apple watch alarm just doesn't work some days. i have no idea why.

i don't have silent mode on when it happens. i have tried so many different settings to fix it. ended up buying the hatch alarm.

You can use gboard on iOS and it's a bit better. But still not as good as Android.

"I'm leaving iPhone" is the new "I'm quitting Twitter". Nobody ever does it.

I really hope someone at Apple is paying attention.

The text entry experience on iOS 26 really is frustratingly bad. Almost unusable (I’ve been going to the laptop for anything more than a few words).

It’s not just the keyboard (display glitches too), but the keyboard UX is particularly awful.

In the past, it seemed like Apple paid very careful attention to the minute details of timing size, etc. All that seems to have gone out the window with this liquid gas BS.

What the hell is this?? If the product has terrible issues, just leave! Why are you grovelling before a corporation, begging for fixes, when you have other options?

I totally understand why people want to buy the same phone as their friends and have a blue bubble and whatever; iPhone is not for me, but I get it. If it's meeting your wants and needs, then I'm genuinely happy for you. But I will never understand what binds someone to a product/company that's no longer meeting expectations. It's a product, a means to an end and nothing more.

I am not having that much problem with it — it’s been relatively easy to ‘train’ it to make the correct corrections, and I rarely have any problems with autocorrect. it usually does the right thing.

the thing is, when you do make a typo… just double tap the word (to select) and it will usually highlight the previous spelling. undo that, around 3 or 4 times, and it will simply stop autocorrecting that.

i find people who experience the most trouble with the keyboard are the ones who aren’t very patient, and keep tapping around like crazy - it’s not a physical keyboard.

- To select all, if you don’t have any selections — just simply triple-tap a word, and it will select the entire paragraph text.

- If you have text selected and you want to de-select, just tap in any area outside of the selection. If you have any ‘word’ selected, and you want to select a different word, double tap another word.

- If you have the Copy | Paste | etc bubble, you have to de-select the text before you can do anything else. (De-select by tapping anywhere /outside/ the selection).

- If you want to select a phrase or longer string, you need to tap at the beginning of the word once and WAIT for the cursor to move and blink again. If you do it too quickly, you might end up selecting more than you intended. If you did it right, it should just land right under your tap. Then double tap the cursor and drag up or down to select your longer text.

It works very reliably for me, and I’ve learned to type long prose on my phone quite well.

Wow I thought it was just me

I’ve definitely noticed more typing errors

hilariously, this will happen on or about when dictation is Wispr quality or better and you won't need your keyboard as much. I do second the Select All item, it's beyond frustrating.

This is my number 1 complaint with iphone, even above battery life with their new crappy 3d effects. I bet these issues have actually cost a bunch of lives, given that people type while driving, and this nonsense makes it far harder. It can't be that hard to do this.

With a couple brief exceptions, I've been an iPhone user since 2007. I'm not far from switching to Android myself. I'm not under any illusions that Google doesn't have some serious flaws, in some ways definitely worse than Apple, but from a usability standpoint I do find the keyboard and autocorrect behavior just atrocious on my iPhone.

It starts as annoyance, progresses to frustration, then overt anger at a lack of action from Apple. I'm at that last level now.

They pulled their head out of their ass when the MBP evolved into a frustrating pile of crap, and I think my 14" M2 Max MBP is my favorite laptop ever. So they DO sometimes listen to their users. Now is the time to listen again.

im not sure why you need to be so dramatic with the timer. just switch already if you don't like it

I don’t have an issue at all.. I have swipe turned off..

oh all this time I thought it was me...

"the orange iPhone was pretty"

Yeah well...

This isn't just you

I’d love a fix for that and I’d love to see nano-texture on the iPhone. I have a test device S25 Ultra and I always enjoy looking at that screen so much more than an iPhone. The most recent iPhone says it has stronger anti-glare, but it’s really quite poor still. Samsung’s display is way ahead in my book.

On a capitalist society your power is how you use your wallet (arguably more important than even the vote you do every 4 years).

So let's vote with our wallet.

Yes, it's badly broken. Try building an app, it's so inconsistent, I have no idea what the heck is going on. It seems like every place my app uses a keyboard it has a different look, different feel, different way to dismiss it, etc. What the AF.

I am not sure what I just read.

Actively hostile is a good way of putting in. Absolute dogshit is another no less accurate description.

But I doubt Apple gives a fuck. They're too busy making promos about how much cardboard they're saving per year shipping their dogshit products, or sending their C suite guys to do WSJ interviews about how much they care about privacy and are a premium brand while at the same time working overtime to implement 3rd party ads into their own ecosystem. They just simply aren't at all aligned with the company that existed when Jobs was still around.

This explains why my typing has basically turned to shit on my iPhone meanwhile on PC it's been fine. Frustrating!

"Now you're just a fruit that I used to know." Sounds like the title for a FANTASTIC song parody idea.

Android keyboards will make you return to iOS in less than a week

"Now you're just a fruit that I used to know." Sounds like a fantastic song parody idea.

If only there were a viable third option besides Apple and the world's largest advertising company.