well I would be ok with the position of the actual keyboard buttons, but for example it would be nice to have a scrollable emoji bar like on the macbook touchbar, or several buttons for different languages, and the emoji menu available.. or heck - even a row with numbers from 0-9- it is a significant amount of wasted space..
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iPhone X Owners Complain About Keyboard's 'Wasted Space'
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3D Touch and fleshlights for 1k. That’s a steal. Best part is avoiding the sketchy parts of town.
Apple would have to figure out what to do with the extra space and not interfere with the bar..
The space underneath is perfect for me. When a keyboard appears, the space bar is where my thumb naturally hovers when I hold my phone making for a very comfortable typing experience.
I'm indifferent with it because onscreen home buttons on Android would do the same thing. Ones with a capacitive home button would technically have more space. By 2014, almost every Android OEM with the exception of Samsung went onscreen.
I also use SwiftKey on both platforms. Used it on Android since 2013 when it became available for free. It's getting better on iOS but still way below Android's..
iOS' SwiftKey: Not enough themes. Can't resize it. Can't put the numbers key on top of the letters. Harder to find emojis. No emoji predictions. Can't use animated gifs like on Android's.
I could never go back to the default keyboard from Apple just like I don't use Google's. I'm forced to use them only for when I set up or the occasional log-in. I prefer SwiftKey's prediction system.
If people are already programmed to use iMessages since 2011, I'm programmed to use SwiftKey for both platforms. It's one of my early third-party apps to download next to Dasher and Chase after setting any phone up.
The space waste doesn't bother me. You don't want accidental swipe ups below the space bar. Happens sometimes on Android with the onscreen home button below it.
I also use SwiftKey on both platforms. Used it on Android since 2013 when it became available for free. It's getting better on iOS but still way below Android's..
iOS' SwiftKey: Not enough themes. Can't resize it. Can't put the numbers key on top of the letters. Harder to find emojis. No emoji predictions. Can't use animated gifs like on Android's.
I could never go back to the default keyboard from Apple just like I don't use Google's. I'm forced to use them only for when I set up or the occasional log-in. I prefer SwiftKey's prediction system.
If people are already programmed to use iMessages since 2011, I'm programmed to use SwiftKey for both platforms. It's one of my early third-party apps to download next to Dasher and Chase after setting any phone up.
The space waste doesn't bother me. You don't want accidental swipe ups below the space bar. Happens sometimes on Android with the onscreen home button below it.
With iOS 11, iPad users can finally type numbers without switching keyboards. Why can't we have the same for iPhone?
i would like copy, paste buttons, like on the ipad. makes it faster to use.
If spacing - something easily fixed with a software update - is the worst people can come up with for this device, then they've really run out of actual problems.
Yea really- i completely get the placing the the keyboard itself. But some additional buttons wouldn’t just look better but also make it more useful!
roflsorrrreeeey for the typo
That predictive text coming back to haunt you!!
XIII
Sometimes i get the feeling that Apple engineers don't actually use iPhones. They might be on Android or who knows...Windows phones? I mean come on, iOS 11 is full of unused space and it makes the experience worse. The iPhone X has lots of wasted space under the keyboard (they could have added text suggestions there). On older devices, those big headings in native apps make the actual content height smaller.
The lower keyboard position is absolutely for usability reasons. Puzzazz has its own custom keyboard, so we had to decide what to do when we were updating the app for iPhone X. We concluded that Apple was right to raise it up because it is too hard to type when the keyboard is right at the bottom.
We did do one thing differently. When somebody is using our TouchWrite handwriting recognition and only the cursor keys and/or puzzle function buttons are shown, we lower them to provide more screen real estate to the puzzle. This works well because those cursor keys and buttons are used very differently than a text keyboard. And, of course, when no keyboard, cursor keys, or function buttons are shown at all, the puzzle takes the whole screen.
We did do one thing differently. When somebody is using our TouchWrite handwriting recognition and only the cursor keys and/or puzzle function buttons are shown, we lower them to provide more screen real estate to the puzzle. This works well because those cursor keys and buttons are used very differently than a text keyboard. And, of course, when no keyboard, cursor keys, or function buttons are shown at all, the puzzle takes the whole screen.
Commenting on an article you admit to not reading.
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I was just reading this and turned down the volume. Dead center of screen blocked.
Looks perfect for a software home button
Yep.
Maybe it's keyboard background color extending all the way to the bottom which gives the impression of wasted space. Maybe if the home indicator was notched out in black (like its brethren up top), there would be less confusion (and annoyance) /s
Actually, this is feedback - the initial variety.
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When, exactly, does one cross the complaining threshold that constitutes "whining like girls"? Perhaps any girls or women voicing complaints on this forum could help inform us in that regard. I see on a daily basis at least as many women as men using iPhones, so the "whining like girls" trait must be readily apparent. I need to be more observant.