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

  • jamwin@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I hate having the period/fullstop on the right hand side, as I always hit it when I hit the space bar

  • Intelligent_Hour_906@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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)

  • seitgeizt@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Same but my experience with gboard on ios was absolute dogshite idk why but SwiftKey did me better

    • boq@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Swiftkey on iOS is better than the stock keyboard but still bad compared to Android keyboards. No idea why iOS is so behind in that regard.

    • fatfuckery@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Swiftkey is a huge improvement over iOS keyboard, but still massively worse than SwiftKey on Android.

  • hyperlobster@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    tl;dr: OP prefers a different keyboard, generalises this out to everyone as if that’s a valid thing to do.

  • anamazingredditor@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Im one those who ignores these keyboard rants lol. I maily speak a non supported language so I just use the keyboard bare, as in no special features

  • Demigans@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thats it? Thats the only complaint? I was going to make a new post about how horrifyingly bad the Iphone keyboard is and thought for a moment I didn’t need too. The entire system of typing is made as if its by students on a deadline and technically they have all the functionality but practically its just terrible.

  • BadDub@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Same here and I’ve been using since the 3gs. I always hit the period key instead of space. Wish I could move the period key to the left or space to far right

  • zerbey@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    GBoard exists on iPhone too, but I can tell you it doesn’t work as seamlessly as on Pixel. The keyboard is the one weak point on the iPhone that I miss from Android.

    Funnily enough, it used to be the other way around.

  • noscopefku@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    i think its also ridiculous that you can’t show the nunbers row above the letters, its possible with android screen real estate, yet apple cant even put it on the regular ipads with 10.9" screen… you need an ipad pro for that (which has 11" screen)

  • SkepTones@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’d say I’m used to it, but man I do remember Android having a wayyy better keyboard experience overall. They just recently brought back key vibrations on iPhone, which it feels horrible to not have. Would love if they had an option for the strength of the keyboard vibes. The layout is very whatever to me I can work with it.

    • apollo-ftw1@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      whats funny is jailbreaking could net you asjustable strength and haptics

      so we know its possible

      • SkepTones@alien.topBEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I had a JB iPhone 7plus that I put the haptics on! It was great, had them cranked to the max. Also I notice that on iOS now sometimes the keyboard haptics stop working. They are currently not working as I’m typing this lol