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Apple Warns About Third-Party Keyboard Issue in iOS 13 and iPadOS, Fix Coming Soon
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Rational commentary with a fair critique and good perspective. What the heck are you doing here?
Right. I’m so disappointed in Apple for not releasing flawless software like everyone else. And as all coders like yourselves know, all bugs get caught and fixed before public release. And as all tech enthusiasts know, Apple software never had bugs back in the day. Must be a sign of corporate deterioration.
You think smaller companies produce fewer bugs? I have a bridge to sell you.
The larger the company (or rather, the more prominent or ubiquitous their software), the greater the scrutiny. And also, all the more than independent and in-house scrutiny and testing software is exposed to.
It's not spamming, you're just suddenly finding out how many apps were quietly getting BlueTooth access that they don't need, in order to have a look at what's around you. You should be saying no to most of them. It'll only happen once per app.
Management without soul kills the soul of employees, kills the soul of their collective potential, eventually kills the soul of the product and makes evolutionary progress a drag. Instead of marketing an impressive product that speaks louder than its sales tags, the product needs to come to par with the impressions expressed in the marketing. We are in dire need of an era that really catches our attention in a way that tantalises, without that being the chaos that is the product of these bean counting times...
Apps and marketers were using Bluetooth scans to track your location, bypassing standard location permissions.
I fear that the built in Apple swipe isn't as good as the Google keyboard. I have a feeling I'll keep using it, but keep swapping to see if I can learn the Apple version.
I've used GBoard for years because Apple refused to implement a swipe keyboard but to be honest I should've given up on it years ago too because Apple made a half cocked, buggy effort "supporting" third party keyboards.
Apples keyboard is so behind though. The 11pro and Max are big phones with good screen realestate but have no number rows. You have to swap screens back and forth for , and . The iPad keyboard is so superior why hasn't that been ported to iOS?
In iPadOS it only works in the small keyboard (two finger zoom out gesture on the keyboard to go from big to small, and then two finger zoom in gesture on the keyboard to go from small to big). It doesn't work in the full-sized keyboard. It works just like on iPhone on the small keyboard.
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Third party keyboards are automatically disabled on password entry fields.
People mock these emojis but if you use them as pictograms to alleviate language barriers you are embracing their original intent for being created.
Wrong!!! So much more functional than Apple's keyboard in almost every way.
Yah geez! Why can't they build a spaceship and send everyone to another planet?!? How hard is it??
Swipe-to-Type on iPadOS only works on the Floating (and possibly Split) keyboards. It doesn't seem to work on the standard full-size keyboard.
I had a heckuva time getting out of the Floating keyboard. There didn't seem to be an obvious way to restore the full keyboard. Then I tried a `pull-apart` gesture, and boom... it goes back to full size.
Whatever the reason for the strange beta and release schedule of 13.0 & 13.1 (maybe tariff related) it’s increasingly clear that Apple needs to stagger their feature releases through the first 3-6 months of the lifetime of each major release of iOS.
What they do now seems to be a relic from the Jobs way of doing things where a Big Bang release would get enough people downloading the latest version of iOS so that developers would then have a reason for supporting its new features etc etc. However iOS, iCloud (and the Mac) are way more complex now.
I’d rather have Apple pick one or two features to launch with and then roll out the other features gradually, giving Apple time to focus of hardening the layers below (that people don’t see) and overall software quality.
For example, dark mode alone would likely have been enough to launch with this time around plus a few other smaller user facing features (new share sheet etc).
Anything involving major plumbing could wait surely until the regular ‘new emoji release’ or the semi-traditional March point releases.
What they do now seems to be a relic from the Jobs way of doing things where a Big Bang release would get enough people downloading the latest version of iOS so that developers would then have a reason for supporting its new features etc etc. However iOS, iCloud (and the Mac) are way more complex now.
I’d rather have Apple pick one or two features to launch with and then roll out the other features gradually, giving Apple time to focus of hardening the layers below (that people don’t see) and overall software quality.
For example, dark mode alone would likely have been enough to launch with this time around plus a few other smaller user facing features (new share sheet etc).
Anything involving major plumbing could wait surely until the regular ‘new emoji release’ or the semi-traditional March point releases.
I'm not worried, I've used SwiftKey for years with full access. It's a Microsoft product, and I trust MS way more than some companies (e.g., Google) because they're not in the business of selling data.
(Plus, if you use Windows in any shape or form, that alone will track you way more than any keyboard, but I digress.)
(Plus, if you use Windows in any shape or form, that alone will track you way more than any keyboard, but I digress.)
Wake me up when Apple manages to release a public iOS 13 version that doesn't have a known unpatched vulnerability right out of the gate. I wonder what qualifies as a release blocker nowadays.
I have been on SwiftKey for ages and I went back to the Apple keyboard for like 5 min then I switched back to SwiftKey. Switching languages in SwiftKey is a breeze IMO!!!
"English/Arabic"
"English/Arabic"
SwiftKey is leagues better than the stock keyboard. Apple took over 5 years to implement swiping, and people still praise them when their implementation isn't half as good.
I love Apple products, but Microsoft is far ahead in AI. Let's be fair here.
It works on an iPad when you have the mini keyboard (Pinch the keyboard to shrink it from normal size). Haven’t really used it yet. Not sure it it’s any faster than standard typing.
Here’s my first sentence typed by swiping.
I think I’ll need to give it more time!
Honestly, I was so happy to ditch Google keyboard. Loved the swipe typing, but man I felt a little icky about the privacy.
wow..I was joking...or was I (X files music plays)
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Apple Now Planning to Release iOS 13.1 and iPadOS on September 24
Apple's release schedule is now 5 days. Courage in Innovation. ?
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I really like the new Apple slide keyboard. I was so disappointed when I realized how poorly it had been implemented on the iPad and that I'd still need GBoard. I wonder what their thought process was.