I hope rants are allowed on r/apple… didn’t see anything about it in the rules.

My iOS keyboard has new behavior since a few days ago. I have most of the QOL features turned off because I sometimes mix different languages, use abbreviations and sometimes need to communicate scientific names/concepts that aren’t saved in dictionaries. I do like the “predictive” option because it saves me from typing commonly used words. Apparently there is now an auto-fill feature that is grouped with the predictive keyboard option. So, if I type “Backe” (german for cheek) but iOS thinks the most likely word I am writing is “backed” it will automatically add a “d” when I hit space.

I

HATE

THIS

Please for the love of god put all the auto-correct / auto-format / auto-fill / auto-bulls*** options separately from the other QOL options. Predictive text options IS NOT the same as typing things automatically for me. It should never be combined.

Anybody else experiencing this frustration? Does anybody have a workaround? I have never really experimented with custom keyboards before but maybe I should.

  • shattermast@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    All I know is that Apple said they’ve improved the keyboard with iOS 17 and frankly I’ve never been more frustrated with it. I don’t know what they even did but here’s the problems I’ve been having:

    • Swipe typing has become nigh-unusable for me. Gets the wrong word nearly every time, takes forever.
    • It is incredibly annoying to put the cursor where I want it now because it’s constantly selecting things, and when I actually do want to select things, it selects the wrong things and becomes very fiddly to adjust.
    • General autocorrect, much like swipe typing, has become extremely inaccurate.

    I used to love alternate keyboards on Android and tried to keep up with them once I moved to iOS but it’s usually not a great experience here because of Apple’s restrictions. But at this point the stock keyboard has become so bad that I feel like I have no choice. It has been making my phone demonstrably worse as of late.

    Anybody have any third-party keyboards they recommend?