re: Did iPhones get harder to type on recently or am I just a complete moron?

My phone consistently makes mistakes as well. Also the TD formatting on my phone has changed. It's still the same on the computer but on the phone it sucks now.

It has. That said, you can turn it off but you'll wish you hadn't. It's even worse when you have to spot the necessary corrections yourself.

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It’s not you. Apple crams so much capability (crap) on these phones that it interferes with it being a phone.

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I think some of it is that they haven’t had someone running software who is a hard arse about following interface guidelines, innovative, and will push back a little when innovation needs to come before Cook’s supply chain. They seem to always be short software developers and have to move people around when issues come up instead of keeping more people dedicated to future development.

It started when cook let the hardware design guy control design and interface of both software and hardware. He also ran off Steve’s software guy because Cook doesn’t like to have discourse and play devil’s advocate like Jobs did. Jobs would lay it all out there when he hated something, and you needed to have thick skin and the balls to push back when he was wrong. I read once when cook didn’t like something he would take a bite of his protein bar and sit back in silence. I would prefer being told exactly what manager felt even if harsh and not that passive aggressive crap. Cook wants his senior staff to fall in line and not challenge him. Instead pushing people to work hard and prove to him why they should be employed Cook let them get soft and started giving in to them on making work easier. Cook went full DEI and babying employees before covid and the summer of love pushed others into doing this.

Cook is great at operations, supply chains, and buying back a ton of stock to keep value up; but as a boss, leader, and a tech visionary he is big ole pussy which has some irony to it. Apple is in dire need of a strong willed visionary head of software who doesn’t threaten Cook which is the part that seems unlikely to be possible.

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Just typing this I had 3 mistakes. I used to not have these problems. It’s like the letters got smaller or something.

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There used to be a way in like a diagnostic mode to see how keys were actually responding to finger placement when typing after learning over time what you likely meant to tap by using your manual corrections and accepted autocorrects. You could see a slight shift in some keys’ sweet spot in that diagnostic mode. Keyboard in regular usage looked the same as always, but the touch sensitivity could shift a little for some keys. I am not as active with that stuff anymore to know if a diagnostic mode like this is still available, or if how to get into it has been published on be web.

This and any dictionary memory could be reset with upgrades to a new iOS or resetting all settings, so when using betas over the summer and into the fall which could often have complete full installs every so often instead of incremental updates it got frustrating typing while waiting for those items to adapt. It could also get close to normal only to have it reset again with release of another beta. The frustration waiting for it to adapt is how I feel typing every day with ios18.

If you have AT&T we’ve had issues too. Wireless dropping, unstable and switching over to 5g. Others I know have had same issues. They sent me a new modem, but haven’t hooked it up yet. On a whim, we resent present modem and it seems to have fixed the issue. Sending new one back. Try resetting your modem.

We've got Kinetic Fiber for home internet and my iPad is wifi only.. I never thought about resetting it, I'll try that in the morning, thank you! Fingers are crossed!

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There’s no clear on my calculator anymore. I have to backspace to delete numbers.

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I just googled that- why on earth did they mess with something as BASIC as a calculator?!

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Every.time.i.try to. type. i.get.a.period. in.between.the.words

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That period on keyboard when typing in a browser’s search field (or web address field) has been a pain for a while if you usually use right thumb to tap the space bar. It sucks when you search only using 2 words, and the accidental period causes them to be treated as a TLD.

They don’t listen to feedback unless a large segment of users complains, and programming decisions are often based on what the techie betas use it for not the real world customer.

Simple solution would be to have setting where user can flip the period to the other side of space bar if they want. I have long used right thumb to tap space bar, so it constantly hits the period when it’s forced to the right side of the space bar.

If I didn’t dislike google more than Apple I would have ditched Apple phones 6 or 7 years ago. I like some of their privacy focus, the closed system, and have a lot of media purchases with them over the years, but their quality control and innovation have gone to shite with no signs of fixing them.

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Did iPhones get harder to type on recently or am I just a complete moron?

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Glad I’m not the only one