Frantisekj
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It took them 19 iterations of iOS to find out keyboard is not accurate? 😀
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iOS 26.4 Fixes iPhone Keyboard Accuracy Bug
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Everyone is wondering why the kids are all sending only voice memos instead of typing text. And also complaining no one can write properly anymore, nor even spell a simple word correctly.
The keyboard was a solved problem. I don't know by which magic but Apple managed to break it so badly that it became completely useless. No matter which method I tried to reset the keyboard, try alternative keyboards, reset dictionaries, nothing works. It's even worse after each new release.
Whatever method you use to enter a text, it's a nightmare. And if you're speaking another language than English, it's worse than a nightmare. And God forbid you to try to edit anything you have typed.
Every time I want to write something, I have to prevent myself from cursing.
How can this experience be so bad?
I haven't tried recent Android phones, but can someone tell me if it's better on the other side? This keyboard situation is so bad it's becoming a compelling argument for me to switch.
The keyboard was a solved problem. I don't know by which magic but Apple managed to break it so badly that it became completely useless. No matter which method I tried to reset the keyboard, try alternative keyboards, reset dictionaries, nothing works. It's even worse after each new release.
Whatever method you use to enter a text, it's a nightmare. And if you're speaking another language than English, it's worse than a nightmare. And God forbid you to try to edit anything you have typed.
Every time I want to write something, I have to prevent myself from cursing.
How can this experience be so bad?
I haven't tried recent Android phones, but can someone tell me if it's better on the other side? This keyboard situation is so bad it's becoming a compelling argument for me to switch.
bgarnett
macrumors member
GBoard is good but it has some annoyances, like inserting incorrect variants (too instead of to). That said, nothing peeved me more than iOS autocorrect system.
They also need to restore the internet keyboard in Safari when the focus is on the navigation bar.
The Game 161
macrumors Nehalem
I’m pretty sure they trained the autocorrect language model on social media. It’s hard to get it to use correct language sometimes.
I’ll say that so far on the RC typing is at least not as buggy as it was, as far as I can tell.
Cruncher
macrumors 6502a
MacBH928
macrumors G3
ios swift keyboard is so stupid, it actually gets the word correct the first time around by the time you move to the next word it auto-magically changes the prior word to something different. By the time you hit send, it would have authored for you a different piece of text than you intended.
why wonder if Android's is much better
why wonder if Android's is much better
IIGS User
macrumors 65816
I thought for sure it was me until I saw the original article here on MR. Between the keyboard issues and autocorrect I was messier than dictating to Siri.
Nekomichi
macrumors 6502
I've just spent hours testing the RC build of iOS 26.4, while typing accuracy does indeed feel somewhat improved the key highlight/input mismatch bug is still present and is definitely not expected behaviour from slide-to-type.
Garafraxa
macrumors newbie
Finallu!
The iOS 26.4 update that Apple plans to release as soon as next week includes improvements for the built-in iOS keyboard. In its notes for the software, Apple says iOS 26.4 offers "improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly."
There was a bug in iOS that caused some characters to be missed when a user was typing quickly. The character appeared to be tapped in the keyboard, but was ultimately not inserted.
The missed characters could impact how auto-correct worked, as it was unable to predict what the users meant to type when there was a missed character.
There were multiple complaints about the bug on Reddit and other sites. Users said they felt the keyboard had gotten much worse in iOS 26, leading to far more typos. With iOS 26.4, this issue should be addressed, preventing the missed letters from causing words to be misinterpreted by autocorrect.
If you've experienced issues with the iOS keyboard that have been fixed in iOS 26.4, let us know in the comments below.
Update: An earlier version of this article mentioned a viral video that highlighted an issue where a letter would be replaced with another when typing, but it turns out the user was using QuickPath and did not have autocorrect enabled. The video features QuickPath's intended behavior, and does not serve as an example of the issue that was fixed, but some of the comments on the video likely related to the issue that Apple did address with the iOS 26.4 update.
Article Link: iOS 26.4 Fixes iPhone Keyboard Accuracy Bug
teaneedz
macrumors regular
thank you for the feedback. it resets my expectations. at this point, the bar is so low for apple software that I have to dig underground to find it.
[update] is there any difference with autocorrect and predictive disabled?
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QuarterSwede
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baryon
macrumors 601
You can't combine Hungarian and English. Why? Makes no sense. Apple has an official presence in Hungary, they have iOS localized in Hungarian, they have autocorrect in Hungarian, why not dual language support? SwiftKey has had it for 10 years or more.
Because it HAS!! The keyboard is absolutely terrible right now. Why does it suggest "OSS" so often when I swipe "is"?? WTF is "OSS" and on what planet is that the most likely suggestion for what I'm trying to type in the middle of a sentence!? Or all of the potentially violent terms that it's impossible to swipe - go ahead and try to swipe "assassinate" for example. Yeah, like "assailant" is what I wanted to say there. Or try "murder" (border) or "rape" (rapper). You run into these terms often when talking about things in the news. It's ducking ridiculous.
It's very troublesome, the fact that the keyboard intentionally tries to neuter what we're saying... First amendment censorship, anybody?
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martin2345uk
macrumors 68000
This update has definitely improved it for me, im not seeing the dropped characters any more, thank goodness!
iJeffmac
macrumors newbie
It's not just fast typing this issue manifests itself, but with dyslexic typers as well, especially on the iPhone keyboard in landscape mode, which is surprising as it's a larger area and should be more easier to use and accurate.
Also, the cursor has been a lot more difficult to place back at the start of text fields after some words have been typed without selecting the whole of the first word.
The iPad keyboard has been better than the iPhone one but not trouble free in this area.
I did start to wonder if I was developing some neurological decline that was impacting typing accuracy or exacerbating my dyslexia!
These difficulties have driven me to considering Samsung next, but I'll check it out in a store before drastically migrating ecosystems.
Also, the cursor has been a lot more difficult to place back at the start of text fields after some words have been typed without selecting the whole of the first word.
The iPad keyboard has been better than the iPhone one but not trouble free in this area.
I did start to wonder if I was developing some neurological decline that was impacting typing accuracy or exacerbating my dyslexia!
These difficulties have driven me to considering Samsung next, but I'll check it out in a store before drastically migrating ecosystems.
bogdanw
macrumors G3
Allegedly "Improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly"
https://support.apple.com/en-us/123075
I haven't seen any improvement.
But children are sure happy for Apple’s hard work on “8 new emoji including an orca, trombone, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face are available in the emoji keyboard”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/123075
I haven't seen any improvement.
But children are sure happy for Apple’s hard work on “8 new emoji including an orca, trombone, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face are available in the emoji keyboard”