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Is it just me or has autocorrect gotten worse and the keyboard less responsive?
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One of the more basic and almost fundamental pieces of most mobile OSs today...quite far from a gimmick or anything even close to it.
Meaning I can still find comfort and relief in the fact that there is a good reason for it not to open directly to the new message now.
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Maybe not a gimmick but still not essential to everyone, I would bet if you could find a poll that less than 60% of ppl use it frequently.
Ohhhh I see. I thought you meant you only wanted to see particular NEW messages and leave other messages unread.
I since I never had this issue I use my phone differently. I think I've gotten to the point where I'll respond immediately or never. Lol. I get A LOT of messages a day to do otherwise.
You can pretty much make that argument about quite a few things when it comes to general public. Multitasking/recent apps are probably similarly unused by quite a few, but surely that doesn't make it an unimportant let alone a gimmicky feature.
I use the ipad primarily for writing and can confirm autocorrect is now worse. Aside from replacing the "s" with "a" at peculiar moments, second-guessing what I want to write has become annoying when it attempts to correct two words together. I have reset everything but it doesn't make any difference.
When I change to Spanish autocorrect is particularly bad.
When I change to Spanish autocorrect is particularly bad.
I find the keyboard much worse. I came back to iOS when T Mobile got the iPhone 5 last spring so iOS6 was still installed. It reminded me why I loved my 3GS as I rapidly typed trough texts at fast speeds with little to no errors. Enter iOS 7 and since the OS itself takes a whole lot more memory making it sluggish at times (that with the slow animations themselves) I'm now at the point where I miss Swiftkey on android. Also, for some odd reason, the keyboard ALWAYS tries to "correct" the word "one" into "On my way" so when I hit space it always replaces "one" with "on my way" no matter how many times I reset my phone, it continues to this day (iOS 7.1 beta 5) it never was like that on iOS6
I actually don't hate iOS7, I welcome the change I just wish it was just as "snappy" as iOS6... The reason I left Android was cause I missed the snappiness and efficiency of iOS but now that I've played around with my co workers Galaxy Note 2, it's just sooo much faster and just transitions through apps so well compared to my iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1 beta 5.
I actually don't hate iOS7, I welcome the change I just wish it was just as "snappy" as iOS6... The reason I left Android was cause I missed the snappiness and efficiency of iOS but now that I've played around with my co workers Galaxy Note 2, it's just sooo much faster and just transitions through apps so well compared to my iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1 beta 5.
Sorry I just saw this.....it stays in all caps any time you put it in all caps until you hit shift to switch to numbers or exit the window. Makes no sense, very rarely does anyone type a large body of text in all caps. I am extremely puzzled and frustrated with Apple's completely unnecessary changes to a perfectly working system for no reason.
Not sure I follow. You tap the shift button to do one letter in capital case, or you double-tap it for caps lock that stays until you disable it. Use whichever one is needed as it is needed. Seems to work as it should and as is consistent with keyboards in general.
Every time I type "Your" to corrects to "YIUR" because I made ONE mistake when I was typing 4 months ago. 
No. It used to turn caps lock off automatically when you hit shift or spacebar, now it stays on and you have to manually turn it off. 99% of the time you only need to type an acronym or one word in all caps.
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Please re read what I wrote, carefully. It USED to automatically turn off conveniently when you hit shift or spacebar.
I can't say I recall it doing that with caps lock. However, I would say that if it did do that then that is the more incorrect behavior, given that when I enable caps lock on any keyboard I would expect it to stay on until I myself disable it (thus the whole "lock" part of it).
Yeah I see what you mean but in most cases (no pun intended) I only want it to stay in caps lock briefly.
I hardly ever use Notification Centre. I forget about it and worse, it isn't even as good as the iOS6 NC.
That's fine, but it doesn't change that it's one of the more fundamental pieces of a lot of mobile (and even desktop now) OSs these days, and certainly doesn't make it a gimmick.
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I did notice something along those lines as I mentioned in my earlier replies about that.
Oh ok, yeah I'm really disappointed. I spent a lot of time and energy getting this replacement 4S. A bunch of tweaks don't work either, and I'm stuck w it unless I can find a cheap one running <6.x on eBay.
You need to be a little less accusatory and confrontational.
PS... OP: I agree with you, and I think it *does* belong in iPhone. I have seen the exact same degradation with typing/autocorrect, but only on my phone, not my iPad.
