Apple

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 😅

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.

Isn’t the period hidden behind the 123 button now?

Also got an iphone like 3 days ago and I am also coming from a pixel 6 yes the keyboard on the iphone is a weak aspect specially is you are bilingual I noticed it struggles more

It’s funnet, the keyboard is absolutely perfect for me but I dont type on a regular english keyboard, so the extra letters sort of ‘fixes’ the layout.

I miss the number row on Apple keyboard.

Can you share which apps you are using that has this period next to the spacebar on the keyboard? Because the only time I can get it to appear is when typing URLs, and the Gboard also has the period next to the spacebar there

it is very bad indeed had the iphone since last year november 4th 2022
but I didnt know auto correct could be a problem until I tried the apple keyboard

Definitely all in what you get used to. I've barely used android (last time I had one was probably 8-10 years ago). Anytime I've tried using any Gboard or any other 3rd party keyboards on iOS they drove me crazy and I ended up switching back.

Yea, i wish there were a better keyboard but whenever I try another one like Swiftkey, the keyboard itself is marginally better but the mouse cursor function when you hold the spacebar is terrible compared to the default Apple keyboard. You can move it around anywhere on the screen like a mouse with the default keyboard compared to the others that seem to track the lines of text which just doesn't feel intuitive at all. I personally don't see a big enough difference in the keyboards themselves to compromise on the mouse function which i tend to use a lot.

Your fat fingers and lack of dexterity aren't Apple's fault. I've been using iPhones since the very first and I can't say I've ever had any trouble with the keyboard.

Did they make a recent change to the keyboard? I remember having that problem, but now my keyboard looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Vkzd4l7.png

If I want to type a period I have to go to this screen:

https://i.imgur.com/oesLN0p.png

And I usually just double tap space bar at the end of a sentence. I think it’s been like this for a while but haven’t thought about it. I use swipe for most typing.

Just install GBoard

The space bar is friggin massive. How are you hitting the period so much? Could this just be a muscle memory thing?

Keyboard and gestures are really terrible.

The keyboard is awful, and how can we not increase the size of the keys? Anyway, I use swiftkeys now which is a lot better and it actually has a number row, but I still can't change the size of the keys.

It’s clunky for sure but you get used to it I suppose. In that one sentence alone I had to do a delete/retype 4 times.

My keyboard doesn’t have a period at all on the main keyboard screen. I have to double press the space bar to get a full stop.

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

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)

it's all about what you are used to. no design is good enough to overcome years and years of muscle memory. likewise i struggle a bit with typing when it comes to samsung keyboard and gboard whenever i have to use an android phone.

Just download Gboard

I fucking miss nintype

As someone who switched to Iphone a few months ago after exclusively using Android, all I can say is you'll get used to it and the constant switching to the numpad as well. I don't know how you type but since I don't use english words only I turned off autocorrect as well since it messes with words it doesn't know.

You'll also probably miss ,if you ever used it, where you can use two apps at once on Android since switching apps on Iphone can be a bit of pain sometimes if you use more than three at once.

P.S. if you get used to the keyboard and tried using an android again you'll have a hard time typing on that ooof.

The what next to the what?

https://i.imgur.com/Zpy1Eaq.png

SwiftKey app

I completely agree, I also miss having a wider variety of symbols on my keyboard and having the number row always display. Text selection is also super weird and inconsistent on iOS. I still choose not to use gboard though cause it looks out of place

man, even google keyboard on ios sucks, but not quite as bad as the stock keyboard. god damn i miss android so much. next year can't come soon enough, when apple joines the rest of the world with RCS and can send high quality media over SMS

YES YES YES

As I type more than one sentence, the text starts to jump around to the beginning and other odd places, so I constantly have to reposition the cursor or text starting point with my iphone ( it’s got iOS 16.7.2 ) And the dictionary is shiite, it constantly auto incorrect to something misspelled, or corrects words that were spelled correctly. I wish it would do less but more accurately. At least Android didn’t go back and change words.

Swiftkey is the way to go but it's still inferior to the Android version where long presses gives symbol or number options..why that isn't on the iPhone I don't know

The period thing is so fucking annoying

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

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

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

Swiftkey is way better and also has a number row.

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

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.