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shenfrey

macrumors 68030
Original poster
May 23, 2010
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I don't know about of you guys but I find my self constantly hitting that period key and all my google searches end up looking.like.this.

Who even types urls anymore anyway? And on the rare occasion when you do need to type, why not just access the period key like you would using any other app, by pressing the specials keys button "123"?

Just my 2 cents xD

Minor nitpick I know!
 

sunking101

macrumors 604
Sep 19, 2013
7,417
2,657
Does my head in! Especially so on the 6+ due to the wider screen, it's a real stretch to hit the tiny space bar and I *never* need the period key when doing web searches anyway!
 

bbfc

macrumors 68040
Oct 22, 2011
3,901
1,670
Newcastle, England.
I don't know about of you guys but I find my self constantly hitting that period key and all my google searches end up looking.like.this.

Who even types urls anymore anyway? And on the rare occasion when you do need to type, why not just access the period key like you would using any other app, by pressing the specials keys button "123"?

Just my 2 cents xD

Minor nitpick I know!

Agree. So annoying.

I disable Dictation, so the button disappears and the space bar becomes wider.
 

Armen

macrumors 604
Apr 30, 2013
7,408
2,274
Los Angeles
I don't know about of you guys but I find my self constantly hitting that period key and all my google searches end up looking.like.this.



Who even types urls anymore anyway? And on the rare occasion when you do need to type, why not just access the period key like you would using any other app, by pressing the specials keys button "123"?



Just my 2 cents xD



Minor nitpick I know!


You.and.me.both
 

Syndicate0017

macrumors 6502
May 3, 2013
405
0
Well they allow 3rd party keyboards now...


A decent workaround except for the fact that 3rd party keyboards disable dictation and even worse....they constantly get overtaken by the stock keyboard anyway (even outside of password fields). It's just not worth the hassle yet.
 

cmChimera

macrumors 601
Feb 12, 2010
4,307
3,842
I don't know about of you guys but I find my self constantly hitting that period key and all my google searches end up looking.like.this.

Who even types urls anymore anyway? And on the rare occasion when you do need to type, why not just access the period key like you would using any other app, by pressing the specials keys button "123"?

Just my 2 cents xD

Minor nitpick I know!

This happens to me all the time, and i was beginning to wonder if it was just me.
 

Nabooly

macrumors 6502a
Aug 28, 2007
849
5
Yup, happens to me too. It ends up googling whatever I typed in with that period. :mad:
 

jbachandouris

macrumors 603
Aug 18, 2009
5,912
3,063
Upstate NY
Actually, I'd like them to bring back the .com key and remove the stupid emoji key on the left. That key always messes me up.

I was able to remove the emoji key in settings. I'm surprised there's no option for the "." key.
 

shenfrey

macrumors 68030
Original poster
May 23, 2010
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Actually, I'd like them to bring back the .com key and remove the stupid emoji key on the left. That key always messes me up.

I was able to remove the emoji key in settings. I'm surprised there's no option for the "." key.


This, simple but effective.
 

aphexacid

macrumors 6502a
Jul 31, 2007
936
22
Chicago
It's been driving me nuts since ios7!

Someone should make a standardized complaint we can copy and past to Apple through that bug submission form they have.

It really makes me think that no one at Apple actually TRIES these things out.
 

MEJHarrison

macrumors 68000
Feb 2, 2009
1,522
2,723
Believe it or not, one of my largest complaints with iOS. I like the idea of putting .COM back there. But honestly, just remove it and give me a bigger space bar.
 

KevinMHC

macrumors member
Nov 5, 2012
66
65
This was one of my major pet peeve on android phones and now iOS has it now too. GRRRRR:mad::mad:
 

afsnyder

macrumors 65816
Jan 7, 2014
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I don't know about of you guys but I find my self constantly hitting that period key and all my google searches end up looking.like.this.

Who even types urls anymore anyway? And on the rare occasion when you do need to type, why not just access the period key like you would using any other app, by pressing the specials keys button "123"?

Just my 2 cents xD

Minor nitpick I know!

Imagine back in iOS 6 when the "." key was a ".com" key... lol

EDIT:

Oh well there was 2 different search locations. One for google/yahoo/bing and the other for inputing websites.
 
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