Has anyone ever told you to shut off keyboard clicks?

[bonskovsky]

Do some people find them annoying, I'd just like to know, I think they're a necessary evil.

I'm sitting here in the library just tip typing away, and I'm wondering if anyone can actually hear it.

[x-evil-x]

everybody seriously hates you in there you cant tell?

[sammich]

Never really noticed it/heard it being noticeably loud. But just like any sort of repetitive noise: if it's too loud to be obnoxious: stop it. Now.

[Shrink]

Oh my...Wally has some serious competition here!

[dma550]

yeah, I ask my kids to do it. You're sitting by a crackling fire and hear every text chime, every click click click. Even the vibrate goes through the floors of our old home.

Any repetitive noise can become annoying. I sold my coolermaster quickfire keyboard with the old school click-snap cherry blue keys as an act of mercy.

[XboxMySocks]

You must be one of those people who has their phone on full volume alerts... DING DING, as the text comes. Click as you unlock the phone. Tick tack tick tack as you type your message. Swoop as it sends. Another click as it locks.

In short... we hate you.

[monkor]

Originally Posted by XboxMySocks

You must be one of those people who has their phone on full volume alerts... DING DING, as the text comes. Click as you unlock the phone. Tick tack tick tack as you type your message. Swoop as it sends. Another click as it locks.

In short... we hate you.

You must know my girlfriend

[psac]

Some people at work have it on in meetings and it annoys the hell out of me.

[XboxMySocks]

Originally Posted by monkor

You must know my girlfriend

Hahaha I'm unsure of the implication of this. Do you mean that because I typed out exactly what she does with her phone? (It does seem to be a more female-centric iPhone behaviour)

----------

Originally Posted by syd430

Almost as annoying as watching someone have their brightness to 100% in a near dark setting. I just sit there thinking FFS YOU'RE DRAINING YOUR BATTERY UNNECESSARILY AND BLINDING YOUR SELF AT THE SAME TIME :@

Movie theatres

[syd430]

Originally Posted by XboxMySocks

You must be one of those people who has their phone on full volume alerts... DING DING, as the text comes. Click as you unlock the phone. Tick tack tick tack as you type your message. Swoop as it sends. Another click as it locks.

In short... we hate you.

Almost as annoying as watching someone have their brightness to 100% in a near dark setting. I just sit there thinking FFS YOU'RE DRAINING YOUR BATTERY UNNECESSARILY AND BLINDING YOUR SELF AT THE SAME TIME :@

[bonskovsky]

People don't ask you to type on the computer more softly, so I always thought it was okay.

Originally Posted by XboxMySocks

You must be one of those people who has their phone on full volume alerts... DING DING, as the text comes. Click as you unlock the phone. Tick tack tick tack as you type your message. Swoop as it sends. Another click as it locks.

In short... we hate you.

I surely do. Well I feel like I have to hear the keyboard clicks, or typing just gets really hard.

[mikeydeezy]

No one has ever said anything but I'm like OP. I hate typing with no click (when my phone is muted).

I need some type of feedback with a touchscreen keyboard.

[MacDawg]

Personally I find them unnecessary and annoying and have them turned off

I doubt I would ever say anything to anyone else about it, but yes, it would annoy me under certain conditions for sure

[madsci954]

One of the first things I do when I set up a new iPhone or iPad is turn the keyboard clicks off.

[ucfgrad93]

Originally Posted by MacDawg

Personally I find them unnecessary and annoying and have them turned off

Same with me. The only time I would find them annoying if someone else was using them would be in an extremely quiet environment like the library. I wouldn't say anything to them, however.

[Interstella5555]

Nope, I figured out all by myself that they're annoying as hell and in no way a "necessary evil."

[Jalopybox]

Originally Posted by Interstella5555

Nope, I figured out all by myself that they're annoying as hell and in no way a "necessary evil."

That's because you are not a self centered narcissist. I commend you on that.

[lucasfer899]

This is so my mum, her phone is always at full blast, no matter what shes doing.
Also, yes, I have, but it was in fact, the keyboard on my mac, I woke up my (very) light sleeping roommate.

[nilk]

I've always turned off Keyboard Clicks, Lock Sounds, and New Mail. Otherwise it would be annoying, for me with my own phone and for anyone around me I'm sure. I also turned off Keyboard Clicks on my wife's phone because it annoyed me. She didn't notice or complain.

In fact, I was just at a restaurant several hours ago, and there was someone whose phone was emanating all three of those sounds frequently, and I thought "oh, there's someone with an iPhone who doesn't know how to turn off all those annoying sounds"

I don't think Keyboard Clicks is a necessary evil. I can manage 30WPM without it on (and that's without autocomplete, the app I used to measure it didn't do autocomplete), and turning it on doesn't increase my speed. I don't even look at the keyboard while I'm typing. I look at the output only (though see the keyboard in my peripheral vision). I imagine many seasoned iPhone users do this, and do it with Keyboard Clicks off. I'm just saying, I think you just haven't practiced enough with Keyboard Clicks off.

I haven't been a library in ages, but shouldn't you be putting your iPhone on mute/vibrate in the first place?

[syd430]

Always the very first thing I disable when I get a new iphone

[Agent-P]

Originally Posted by syd430

Always the very first thing I disable when I get a new iphone

Me too. I can't stand having that noise on my phone. I also turn off lock/unlock sounds. Completely unnecessary.

[Damolee]

It's barely audible on my iP5. It's not like i'm sat there with a cherry blue mechanical keyboard or something.

If people get annoyed by that slight noise, then tough luck.

People obviously never have any real stress in their life if that's an issue, first world problem at most. It's not even that.

I can appreciate the constant ding noise from texts being annoying though, they are pretty loud.

[TG1]

I also need the sound of the click for feedback. I do have my volume down to one bar so I haven't heard any complaints yet.

[Tubamajuba]

Originally Posted by bonskovsky

People don't ask you to type on the computer more softly, so I always thought it was okay.

You can't change how loud a physical keyboard is, so of course nobody is going to ask you to type more softly. But you have the option to turn off the keyboard clicks on your iPhone, so it's an implied expectation that you do so in situations where a repetitive and unnecessary sound is easily heard. I mean, it's your choice, but just know that there are indeed situations where you should really consider turning that sound off.

[barkomatic]

Originally Posted by bonskovsky

Do some people find them annoying, I'd just like to know, I think they're a necessary evil.

I'm sitting here in the library just tip typing away, and I'm wondering if anyone can actually hear it.

Normally, I wouldn't be bothered by keyboard clicks, but if I was in the library and you were *continuously* texting next to me (as opposed to a quick message) I'd ask you to turn the sound off. It's inconsiderate in that environment --and I'm sure you could manage to find a way to text without the click sound.