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

I don't have an iPhone 6 Plus, but also get stray dots sometimes when I try to search. Hopefully this will help with smaller screens, too.

fastasleep said:
"several" ?
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Makes sense to me, the "several" users having this problem are probably the same several people who read MacRumors. :)

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Now if they’d just fix the multi-language key and 123 key swapping sides when you switch from portrait to landscape on an iPhone 6, the iOS 8 keyboard would be pretty near perfect.

(Seriously, how did that design ever get past basic testing? Just watching them swap when you rotate the phone shows how bad an idea it is, and the penalty for hitting the wrong one accidentally is having to switch through several multilingual keyboard layouts, if you have such enabled. Maybe none of the testers ever type in more than one language?)
 
Makosuke said:
Now if they’d just fix the multi-language key and 123 key swapping sides when you switch from portrait to landscape on an iPhone 6, the iOS 8 keyboard would be pretty near perfect.

(Seriously, how did that design ever get past basic testing? Just watching them swap when you rotate the phone shows how bad an idea it is, and the penalty for hitting the wrong one accidentally is having to switch through several multilingual keyboard layouts, if you have such enabled. Maybe none of the testers ever type in more than one language?)
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How about the at least equally likely possibility that it was found during testing and logged as an issue but isn't of enough priority for Apple that it hasn't been addressed so far?
 
C DM said:
How about the at least equally likely possibility that it was found during testing and logged as an issue but isn't of enough priority for Apple that it hasn't been addressed so far?
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Of course someone could have reported it late in testing and they decided not to fix it, but I refuse to believe anyone who types with regularity on a multilingual keyboard would have designed it that way in the first place. There must have been dozens if not hundreds of versions of the new keyboard roughed out before somebody actually coded the thing into an alpha or beta build, which somebody who should have known better looked at and signed off on.

It's pretty obvious what actually happened was that with the extra space they were able to separate out the smiley key from the language key, which is great (much faster to switch languages), but instead of bumping the 123 over a notch, they kept the same relative placement to the smiley key and depreciated the language key to the outside edge on the other side of it. Which makes sense in theory if you don't actually, you know, use the language key at all.

If you bothered to turn it on, however, there's a pretty good chance you actually do use it, and probably as much as you use the smiley key (if not a lot more), hence it being a bad decision by a designer(s) who just doesn't use multiple languages.

If they'd moved the 123 to the innermost position on both keyboards, portrait and landscape, that'd be an Apple-like decision--throwing out tradition in favor of a layout that you think makes more sense. That would take adjustment, but I wouldn't be complaining. What they actually did, however, is just plain sloppy, and never should have made it through the initial design sketches, let alone to the point that somebody coded the entire thing past where it could be fixed in a timely fashion.
 
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After reading these last pages of this thread, I believe some people are lying through their teeth by saying they were having trouble.
Almost half of the users on this thread never complained about the keyboard in other discussions before this news came and didn't really noticed the change.
I know I'm going to get hate replies but I don't care. Bring it on. Lol
 
Makosuke said:
Of course someone could have reported it late in testing and they decided not to fix it, but I refuse to believe anyone who types with regularity on a multilingual keyboard would have designed it that way in the first place. There must have been dozens if not hundreds of versions of the new keyboard roughed out before somebody actually coded the thing into an alpha or beta build, which somebody who should have known better looked at and signed off on.

It's pretty obvious what actually happened was that with the extra space they were able to separate out the smiley key from the language key, which is great (much faster to switch languages), but instead of bumping the 123 over a notch, they kept the same relative placement to the smiley key and depreciated the language key to the outside edge on the other side of it. Which makes sense in theory if you don't actually, you know, use the language key at all.

If you bothered to turn it on, however, there's a pretty good chance you actually do use it, and probably as much as you use the smiley key (if not a lot more), hence it being a bad decision by a designer(s) who just doesn't use multiple languages.

If they'd moved the 123 to the innermost position on both keyboards, portrait and landscape, that'd be an Apple-like decision--throwing out tradition in favor of a layout that you think makes more sense. That would take adjustment, but I wouldn't be complaining. What they actually did, however, is just plain sloppy, and never should have made it through the initial design sketches, let alone to the point that somebody coded the entire thing past where it could be fixed in a timely fashion.
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Sloppy but totally something that would be seen as a minor issue of low priority, especially given all the other more important and actually broken things in iOS that still haven't been fixed.
 
TMRJIJ said:
After reading these last pages of this thread, I believe some people are lying through their teeth by saying they were having trouble.
Almost half of the users on this thread never complained about the keyboard in other discussions before this news came and didn't really noticed the change.
I know I'm going to get hate replies but I don't care. Bring it on. Lol
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There have been threads about this before. That said, given how many people didn't realize what was going on and thought it was just somehow them not typing well all of a sudden (which is again surprising to me) it's not that strange that they wouldn't really discuss it much if that's what they attributed it to.
 
I didn't have the dot problems in my old 5S, but since switching to the 6 plus, I frequently get the dots.
I got tired of it, so most of the time I just hit enter, apparently Google is smart enough to know what I'm looking for despite the dots :D
 
Hmm... this was never a problem for me.

My personal keyboard tweak wish would be for the row of numbers to appear above the letters. I spend far too much time switching back and forward between the letters and numbers keyboards...
 
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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Just shake your iPhone to undo the deletion?
 
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