Rant: New iOS keyboard features drive me insane - eviltoast

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.

  • tumbledrylow87@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IOS keyboard has always been giving me an eye twitch after using SwiftKey for years. It’s so shitty it would take me a few paragraphs to even begin describing what’s wrong with it. Utter garbage.

  • havregryns@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This feature is the only thing i hate about the keyboard on iOS compared to Android. Its also driving me insane how many times i have to go back and fourth to edit a sentence and sometimes delete a message entirely i sendt

  • CD_4M@alien.topBEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    100% agree. Truly nothing in this world infuriates me like when I correctly type something and iOS “corrects” it for me into something I never intended to type

  • TizonaBlu@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been ending my sentences with v for as long as I can remember. Fucking annoying v

  • sneakinhysteria@alien.topBEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Autocorrect and its related features have always sucked and continue to suck even more - particularly for people using more than one language. I fail to believe there aren’t enough multilingual people at Apple to recognise this. I use three languages everyday, English, German, Dutch. The overlap between all three creates huge issues. I don’t need machine learning to identify objects in my photos anywhere near as much as I just need my phone to correctly identify the language I’m using at any moment. This shouldn’t be hard, it’s highly contextualised.