Like the title says, coming from android (more specifically pixel)
I did enjoy the inital promise of customization offered on android devices, but for whatever reason Google has done away with huge portions of that freedom and weirdly “pure android” has started to feel more like IOS.
Much to my pleasant surprise apple has fixed a huge number of my complaints with iOS since my last iPhone 7 years ago. To be frank I used to shit on iPhone but am eating a lot of crow here admitting that they definitely fixed most of their shortcomings and are clearly pulling away in the smartphone race (like you needed me to tell you that)
That being said… HOW HOW HOW is the iPhone keyboard so bad? I know this sounds like a small problem but when I last used an iPhone years ago, the period placement (near the space bar) caused me to constantly fat finger random periods into most of my searches and messages. It’s hideous design and I can’t understand for the life of me how apple hasn’t solved this wart of a problem. Especially because I KNOW that most people who work at apple are aware of the issue because it affects basically anyone with an iPhone! LOL
Not only is it an old, know issue, but it’s an obvious one that actually causes inconvenience. Not just the period, the entire board is cramped and it’s genuinely difficult to type on compared to Gboard, which I am using now to type this. It took me a few days to realize I could use gboard on IOS and HOLY SHIT is the difference night and day. I actually feel bad for all the people (most) using the stock iOS keyboard. It was like being stuck in hell lol
Just bewildered by how apple has solved so much yet somehow ignored this simple fix for going on a decade
Just download Gboard
I have typed on an iOS keyboard for over a decade and never considered the keyboard to be bad at all. To type a . I hit the space bar twice, or I click the 123 with me left thumb and then they period or symbol I need… never randomly typing periods
Just because android and ios look clean doesn’t mean they look the same.
I can type like hell on an iPhone. I have an android I have to use at work at times, it feels like I have two left thumbs? I don’t know what it is, but I cannot type on it. I think it’s all in what you’re used to.
Thanks for the Gboard tip. My wife wanted me to have “face time” so I made the switch away from the galaxy ecosystem :(. Every day battle with slowly converting my iPhone to have an android feel. Gracias!
It was good four or five years ago but for some reason, Apple changed it.
The space bar is friggin massive. How are you hitting the period so much? Could this just be a muscle memory thing?
For me iPhone keyboard is hundred times better than Samsung or Google… I don’t know why I hate keyboards in Android phones…
Funny. I really enjoy the iPhone keyboard. The Android keyboard drove me crazy lol
Oh my god thank you for posting this, I had NO CLUE iPhone brought keyboard haptics back!!! Feels so much better now, +1 to OP
I just want a GBoard like from Android on iPhone. The GBoard offered is not the same. I miss it on my pixel. Alas, here we are.
simple things like the swipe gestures, and holding letters for alternate keys (I’m looking at you punctuation!) seem like such simple things apple must prohibit
Keyboard and gestures are really terrible.
It was good before four or five years ago but for some reason, Apple changed it.
I use swiftkey on iPhone. The stock keyboard is borderline unusable.
You’re ok with the notifications?
I think I’m in the minority, but I prefer the notifications on iOS.