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
Swift key is amazing
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 a huge improvement over iOS keyboard, but still massively worse than SwiftKey on Android.
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.
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
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)
I hate having the period/fullstop on the right hand side, as I always hit it when I hit the space bar
i’m confused. my iphone 12 pro with ios 17.1.1 has the period on the left. just above and to the left of the space bar.
It seems like Apple just doesn’t listen about this. It’s my only issue with the keyboard
Try going to settings-general-keyboard and untick the “.” shortcut
You can just double tap space.
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.
Swiftkey is way better and also has a number row.
SwiftKey app
The period thing is so fucking annoying
SwiftKey. I need my number row
Yes, iOS keyboard is terrible. Swiping helps but only so much (and seems worse at selecting the right word). I keep hoping for improvement.
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
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
I think apple purposely limits how well other keyboards work on iOS in the name of security. It’s a damn shame too because typing could be so much better on iOS.
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.