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Apple Fixes Keyboard in iOS 8.3 Beta So Searches.Don't.Look.Like.This

Waxhead138 said:
IOS8 in landscape orientation, upper left corner of the keyboard, under the microphone key. When you hit it accidentally it reeeeealllly sucks and isn't too hard to do. Wipes out everything in that message, whether it's a sentence or a book. Gone.

Edit: Oops, not in Safari, just in the native Text App. Still annoying.
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That one must exist on the larger phones only...
 
Waxhead138 said:
IOS8 in landscape orientation, upper left corner of the keyboard, under the microphone key. When you hit it accidentally it reeeeealllly sucks and isn't too hard to do. Wipes out everything in that message, whether it's a sentence or a book. Gone.

Edit: Oops, not in Safari, just in the native Text App. Still annoying.

Edit 2: Yep it's in Safari too.
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Rarely use the landscape keyboard on my 6, so I guess I never really realized it was there. Seems like an undo key more than anything.

At the same time, looks like shaking the phone to undo also does redo, so if you do use that button and want to get it all back you can shake the phone and use the redo option to get the text back.

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OtherJesus said:
Same here. Never used to happen in iOS 6.
I don't know what it is about 7/8 but I feel like I have way more typos.

(I still prefer 7/8, so spare me the "get over iOS 6" comments)
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It's because of the combined URL/address bar and search bar in Safari that came about in iOS 7.
 
C DM said:
Rarely use the landscape keyboard on my 6, so I guess I never really realized it was there. Seems like an undo key more than anything.

At the same time, looks like shaking the phone to undo also does redo, so if you do use that button and want to get it all back you can shake the phone and use the redo option to get the text back.

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It's because of the combined URL/address bar and search bar in Safari that came about in iOS 7.
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Thanks Very much for that gem of info. Wasn't aware of the redo option. Will end some frustration :)
 
It seems to me that the moment you tap a period in Safari, the spacebar should get replaced with the period and the moment you tap a space in Safari, the period should get replaced by the spacebar.

It's so rare that in the combined textbox you would actually want both periods and spaces, as spaces aren't valid in URLs and most (all?) search engines ignore punctuation.
 
Wow...apple actually fixing one of their f-ups? Red letter day for sure. I figured the reason was we were typing wrong.
 
I really this was just me not getting used to the new keyboard!

This is going to make such a great difference to my browsing speeds on my 6+! :D
 
Although I'm glad that this was fixed, it hasn't really had an effect a Google search for me. No web address I've seen has a space either.. A more concerning productivity issue that should be addressed are reminders not showing up in the today tab in Notification Center. I am constantly having to slide to notifications for like 10 seconds for them to appear.
 
I'm glad they're paying attention to little details like this. Hopefully they'll continue to refine other annoyances in iOS. The shift key, IMO, should be white by default. I still have to think twice whether that key is active or not.
 
If you're jailbroken and don't want to wait for 8.3 for this fix, get the tweak called "go.away.period.button"
 
I had this problem in iOS 7 on my iPhone 5, and as I mentioned in the original discussion thread I was really surprised when I got my 6 Plus and it seemed like they made everything but the spacebar bigger.

The reason it happens is because the search bar and url bar in iOS 6 and earlier were separate, and starting in iOS 7 they were unified. When searching, there was no reason to have the period key be prominent, and when typing a url, there was no need for the spacebar. This was a simple design change that they should have fixed in the iOS 7 beta. Drives me crazy literally every single day. Just adjusting everything slightly would have fixed it. A prime example of how Apple can get so many things right, and then completely screw up on something so obvious.

If they ONLY made iOS 9 less buggy and run smoother, while fixing the keyboard in Safari, that would make me beyond happy. That is all I truly want. Anything else is a bonus.
 
Never noticed it. What does bug me is the world and 123 keys being swapped between portrait and landscape.
 
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