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Typing on the iPhone 4 flat out sucks

onthecouchagain

onthecouchagain

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I know I'm not the only one whose typing experience on the iPhone 4 sucks. It just doesn't seem to be able to keep up with my thumbing speed -- I'm not typing insanely fast either though. It often misses key presses, resulting in words that look like "tis" or "ths" littered all over the place. It is frustrating.

And is it me, or did the 3GS keep up faster? I know a few other people who thumb pretty fast say the same thing about their iPhone 4's.

/vent
 
Love typing on the iPhone 4. Keeps up perfectly, dont know what your talking about.
 
See if it's not your screen protector that's interfering.

The iPhone 4 without a screen protector can take a respectable number of presses per second.
 
onthecouchagain said:
I know I'm not the only one whose typing experience on the iPhone 4 sucks. It just doesn't seem to be able to keep up with my thumbing speed -- I'm not typing insanely fast either though. It often misses key presses, resulting in words that look like "tis" or "ths" littered all over the place. It is frustrating.

And is it me, or did the 3GS keep up faster? I know a few other people who thumb pretty fast say the same thing about their iPhone 4's.

/vent
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get a blackberry... your problem is solved
 
bill-p said:
See if it's not your screen protector that's interfering.

The iPhone 4 without a screen protector can take a respectable number of presses per second.
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I had trouble with hitting a certain letter and the wrong one coming up...like three letters to the left or right of the intended letter...then one day my son mentioned my screen protector, ripped it off and presto! all was good again.
 
typing is so hard on iphone4

I've been using a blackberry tour for 5 years and type very fast on it. Traded it in for an iphone 4 a month ago and still cannot make any progress typing. I disabled the autotype function and that helped a tiny bit but I am still making many errors. I have tried typing horizontally and slowing down but I end up retyping every fourth or fifth word. It is very frustrating because I text a lot and enail pretty frequently on the road. I don't have a screen protector on. Any further advice??????
 
keepingup said:
I've been using a blackberry tour for 5 years and type very fast on it. Traded it in for an iphone 4 a month ago and still cannot make any progress typing. I disabled the autotype function and that helped a tiny bit but I am still making many errors. I have tried typing horizontally and slowing down but I end up retyping every fourth or fifth word. It is very frustrating because I text a lot and enail pretty frequently on the road. I don't have a screen protector on. Any further advice??????
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I would keep autocorrect on. Though it is annoying at times you are better off (imo) keeping it on because you can miss a few letters and it will autocorrect to what you meant. I take less time by not being as accurate and relying on autocorrect to fix my mistakes. Typically, I am texting common words not text lingo lameness so it works very well.


At times though auto correct is a real ***** but you just need to slowdown and look at the word before you move onto next.

Once you get this pattern down it allows you to type quite fast. Like I said, you can quickly hit the keys and miss a few letting auto correct fix the problem.

At least that has been my experience... just yesterday someone mentioned how fast of a typist I was on the iPhone 4. Haha.


As for OP, I haven't had that type of issue. Used the past iPhone versions and never noticed anything switching to the iPhone 4.
 
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onthecouchagain said:
I know I'm not the only one whose typing experience on the iPhone 4 sucks. It just doesn't seem to be able to keep up with my thumbing speed -- I'm not typing insanely fast either though. It often misses key presses, resulting in words that look like "tis" or "ths" littered all over the place. It is frustrating.

And is it me, or did the 3GS keep up faster? I know a few other people who thumb pretty fast say the same thing about their iPhone 4's.

/vent
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I'm pretty sure it's user error.

EDIT: Unless there is a problem with your phone. Maybe try another one and see if that fixes anything.
 
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Whenever my keyboard acts dumb like the OP's, I just reset the keyboard under settings.
 
ii hve nnnno probkms weigh myy iphon 5 keybrd it rites prfct evry time w/th nO rrors.
 
I guess there is an advantage to complete incompetence. I type with one finger, and can probably manage a fast 3-4 words a minute. My emails tend to be quite short, much to the delight of the recipients.

The phone is plenty fast for me!! :p ;)
 
Anytime I've experienced any slowdown in typing speed it's been the fault of the app I'm using. Some apps just freeze up when typing fast.
 
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