I once shook my phone because I was annoyed by autocorrect repeatedly messing up. The shaking undid more than half the text I had written. I couldn't find a way to redo.
Huh? It usually pops up a message asking if you want to undo, which you need to tap. I'm pretty darn sure this is how the feature has worked since it was introduced.
Probably, but you do not necessarily expect half your text to disappear when you click accept right?
When a message pops up asking me if I want to undo my typing and I click yes, I do in fact expect the text I typed to disappear.
He's complaining that Undo is overly agressive, given that there's no (obvious) redo function.
That's not the question that was asked.
The question that was asked was obviously hyperbolic as the undo function doesn’t just delete half of what you typed.
You are right. I hadn't used this in a long time. Did it always pop up the dialog? I could have sworn it didn't.
As I said, I'm pretty darn sure it has always popped up a dialog. Certainly, the dialog has existed for a very long time, I recall seeing it on my first gen iPad, when I was in High School. (I graduated college three years ago.)
"I'll show him to shake me..."
I know this is HN and not Reddit. But this made me lol.
Just shake it backwards of course.
Shake once more, it'll offer to redo.
I tried it and got an “Undo Typing” confirmation. Did you?
You get that and then accepting it deletes a large portion of the text.
That's what Undo Typing does...
He's complaining that Undo is overly agressive, given that there's no (obvious) redo function.