iOS 27 Rumored to Feature Keyboard Upgrade

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There needs to be a better way of not overriding custom words. The number of times it corrects a word that wasn’t incorrect, and I had to delete it to put my spelling in again. There is a way to select your custom word for it to accept, but you have to think first if it is custom to select it, which doesn’t work when typing fast

 

[Tofupunch]

I would also love a paste button when there is something copied to the clipboard, the same way as iPadOS. I hate having to tap into a tiny text field and then paste.

 

[klasma]

I would also love a paste button when there is something copied to the clipboard, the same way as iPadOS. I hate having to tap into a tiny text field and then paste.

All these actions where you have to wait a second before the menu appears are driving me mad. Sometimes I think I didn’t tap right, and tap again, which makes the menu that just appeared in that moment disappear again. #&$%

Also, pasting at an exact location that doesn’t happen to match what iOS considers a likely paste position is super difficult, because you have to hit the exact same spot twice, once to place the cursor, and then again to open the menu. If you move a tiny bit you’re just placing the cursor again.

 

[citysnaps]

I wonder how many of the above unhappy posters have taken the time to write a thoughtful and business-like letter to Craig Federighi expressing their unhappiness and wishes for a better keyboard that would make them happy?

I suspect the number is zero. As an aside... years ago I wrote a letter to Craig with a suggestion (I don't remember what it was) and received a letter back from him thanking me, and that the suggestion was implemented.

 

[Dr McKay]

When in the world are they finally give us a number row on the keyboard?
It is such a pain to keep switching between the number and letters when need to type.
Android has it for years!

It’s one of the things I miss about Android, the keyboard customisations that simply aren’t available, not even on the iOS version of gboard. Stuff like literally dragging a slider to decide how tall the keyboard will be.

 

[WilliApple]

Whatever happened to iOS Snow Leopard???

 

[platinumaqua]

I'd still love a dedicated number-row. Or at least the option to turn it on.

Look at all that wasted space at the bottom of the screen for just two icons... clearly they're not worried about the height of the keyboard...

😒

and I don't care about the suggestions bar. Let me put the number keys where that bar is!

 

[GuruZac]

When in the world are they finally give us a number row on the keyboard?
It is such a pain to keep switching between the number and letters when need to type.
Android has it for years!

Number row takes extra processing power, like calculator on iPadOS. Be patient

 

[Dr McKay]

Will the keyboard finally learn that at no point in my life will I ever meant to have typed “he’ll yeah”.

 

[dominiongamma]

Please, Apple, make the damn keyboard as predictively accurate as Android's Gboard keyboard. I am begging you.

I wish they would allow us to use Google’s keyboard permanently on iOS. iOS keyboard is trash

 

[jr5x]

It needs to remember what words we correct to. My Samsung Android did that NINE YEARS AGO.

Especially with dictation. For example, I don't use "wanna." I always have to change it to "want to." It should remember that.

Also, when dictating, I don't want it to choose a proper noun from my Contacts in place of a regular word. I'm not going to put someone's first name, capitalized, in the middle of a sentence when it makes no sense there.

How can Apple employees be so smart, yet create such stupidity?

 

[B4U]

Number row takes extra processing power, like calculator on iPadOS. Be patient

Like the weather on iPad! 🤣

 

[AncTreat5358]

There needs to be more options like that for sure. At least on the iPad I’d like to have left/right arrow keys like Android has. Placing/moving the input mark precisely by touch is always such a pain.

I'm not sure if by "touch" you mean pressing where you want. If so, if you hold the spacebar down for a moment, you enter a mode where you can directly move the cursor to where you want.

 

[boswald]

Oh please let this be true!

 

[AncTreat5358]

There needs to be a better way of not overriding custom words. The number of times it corrects a word that wasn’t incorrect, and I had to delete it to put my spelling in again. There is a way to select your custom word for it to accept, but you have to think first if it is custom to select it, which doesn’t work when typing fast

This bites me so often. And since I know I typed it correctly, I don't reread always to make sure the keyboard did not decide to change it to something else.

 

[klasma]

I'm not sure if by "touch" you mean pressing where you want. If so, if you hold the spacebar down for a moment, you enter a mode where you can directly move the cursor to where you want.

Yes, I mean that by touch. It’s still a pain to move the cursor exactly between the two characters you want, or to move it after the next character so you can press Delete (Backspace) because the keyboard has no forward Delete. And sometimes the hold registers wrong so you’re typing a space you have to delete again.

 

[AncTreat5358]

Yes, I mean that by touch. It’s still a pain to move the cursor exactly between the two characters you want, or to move it after the next character so you can press Delete (Backspace) because the keyboard has no forward Delete.

Ah, then I hear you. I often have the cursor movement mode move vertically when I meant to go horizontally.

Sorry for stating an obvious. I wasn't sure how well-known this gesture was.

 

[ignatius345]

The swipe-to-type keyboard is just insanely bad lately. Crap like “and” coming out as “Andy”, or “the” as “them” even when it makes less than zero sense in context. I don’t remember it being this bad before.

2. Get.rid.of.this.every.web.search

This.makes.me.want.to.throw.my.phone.into.the.ocean.

 

[Gator5000e]

Fix dictation. It's awful.

 

[AncTreat5358]

Fix dictation. It's awful.

For me, it's not horrible. But the punctuation support is very suboptimal compared with other products; you often end up with run-on sentences.

 

[svish]

Would like to see an update to the default keyboard. As of now I use SwiftKey. Looking forward to trying the new one.

 

[cjducasse]

Whomever is in charge of apples user interface design.

 

[diblasio]

1. Number Row - even if it’s just a setting and people can turn it off and on
2. Get.rid.of.this.every.web.search

I didn’t realize how much I hate #2 until now. This is the ONLY valid complaint in this entire thread!

 

[tennisproha]

Hopefully they can teach the keyboard about sex and expletives.

 

[Sputman99]

So it’ll actively read any text for context and send it to a server - no thanks - first thing to turn off - think about what your writing, learn grammar and spelling - don’t let AI take away your thinking / or delegate your thoughts, decisions and needs to an AI - who knows what it will add to you context to lead you. Turn it off and think for yourself