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minimize keyboard, am i missing something?

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i hate phones

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Jul 5, 2010
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long time ipod touch user, new i phone 4 user... i feel a bit silly, but how the heck do i minimize the keyboard in apps such as the messaging app? i know i can exit out of the conversation and then go back in but it gets to be a pita and i would think there'd be an easy fix to this. i tried googling but only got stuff from like 2008...

forget about the damn dropped calls, minimize the friggin keyboard! ha totally kidding. :D
 
i hate phones said:
long time ipod touch user, new i phone 4 user... i feel a bit silly, but how the heck do i minimize the keyboard in apps such as the messaging app? i know i can exit out of the conversation and then go back in but it gets to be a pita and i would think there'd be an easy fix to this. i tried googling but only got stuff from like 2008...

forget about the damn dropped calls, minimize the friggin keyboard! ha totally kidding. :D
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I believe if you tap in the message section right above the keyboard it minimizes, or at least it does in some apps.
 
In the built-in text-messaging app, you cannot minimize the keyboard. Not without exiting and re-entering the conversion. And to make matters worse, before iOS 4, you could simply exit and re-enter the app, which didn't make you leave the conversion and was actually faster and simpler than exiting and re-entering a conversation. But now that iOS 4 keeps the app in memory, you are forced to truly exit and re-enter the conversation.

I know this seems so minor, but as an iPhone user since Day 1, and this being the app I use most, by far, on my device, I've always found this annoying, especially from a company touted as a master of user experience design. And iOS 4 made it even worse.
 
i hate phones said:
so you used to be able to before iOS4? maybe that means they'll fix it? here's to hoping. it's something so minor yet sooo annoying. and seemingly easily fixable.
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I've used iPhones for 3+ years. It has never been possible. Whoever thinks it has is remembering wrong, unless it was briefly that way in some minor patch and then changed back soon after in another minor patch. Because I update on most patches, and I am always and have always been annoyed by this.
 
PITA is right.

What I do is I hit the "edit" button and the keyboard drops so i can view the conversation. Much quicker than exiting and going back in.
 
redscull said:
I've used iPhones for 3+ years. It has never been possible. Whoever thinks it has is remembering wrong, unless it was briefly that way in some minor patch and then changed back soon after in another minor patch. Because I update on most patches, and I am always and have always been annoyed by this.
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Maybe I'm remembering wrong. After I got biteSMS I neber used the stock app again. It really is annoying
 
PITA is right.

What I do is I hit the "edit" button and the keyboard drops so i can view the conversation. Much quicker than exiting and going back in.
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Well actually no, they are both 2 button presses :)

In the built-in text-messaging app, you cannot minimize the keyboard. Not without exiting and re-entering the conversion. And to make matters worse, before iOS 4, you could simply exit and re-enter the app, which didn't make you leave the conversion and was actually faster and simpler than exiting and re-entering a conversation. But now that iOS 4 keeps the app in memory, you are forced to truly exit and re-enter the conversation.

I know this seems so minor, but as an iPhone user since Day 1, and this being the app I use most, by far, on my device, I've always found this annoying, especially from a company touted as a master of user experience design. And iOS 4 made it even worse.
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Not true either. All you have to do it go back to your main screen, that has all the people you've texted, and then go back into the one that you want to go through. Don't have to close out the app within the dock at all ;)
 
headcheese said:
Not true either. All you have to do it go back to your main screen, that has all the people you've texted, and then go back into the one that you want to go through. Don't have to close out the app within the dock at all ;)
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I don't think you understand. Yes, that's how you have to do it now. I'm saying that, before iOS 4, that method was the slower method of two choices. The faster method being, simply exit and re-enter the app. It's easier for me to press the home button and then the SMS icon, both of which are always in the same spot, than to press the "back" button, find the conversation I was in from the list, and click it to re-enter. Is it much different? Not really. But it is a little less efficient. But my preferred, more efficient method doesn't work in iOS 4 (not to mention, simply starting apps is slower in iOS 4).
 
weespeed said:
It doesn't in the SMS app. It really is annoying. I remember my 3GS you could..
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when was this? I've had all the iPhones and as far as I know it was never possible without exiting the convo...and hitting the edit button does NOT work either...once you hit cancel after edit the keyboard pops back up
 
weespeed said:
Maybe I'm remembering wrong. After I got biteSMS I neber used the stock app again. It really is annoying
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Yeah biteSMS allows you to minimize the keyboard; that's cool. I never knew you couldn't on the default app. Another reason to love biteSMS.
 
redscull said:
I've used iPhones for 3+ years. It has never been possible. Whoever thinks it has is remembering wrong, unless it was briefly that way in some minor patch and then changed back soon after in another minor patch. Because I update on most patches, and I am always and have always been annoyed by this.
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It was possible in OS 2, but was changed in OS 3. Before OS 3, you could also tap the Send button to enter the text field if it was blank.
 
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