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Try disabling slide to type. I don't use it, so if it's on, it introduces inaccuracies.

“Try disabling slide to type. I don’t use it, so if it’s on, it introduces inaccuracies.”

What. The. Hell. I disabled slide & predictions and typed the above sentence myself to test it, and the only very few mistyped keys were those that I have seen that I’m going to mistype.

Really, Apple?

WTFF?

All these years…

One more vote. This seems to help. Thank you for the suggestion. Now I am wondering if I should also turn off "Predictive" in the settings.

Yup - I've turned off slide and predictive and it seems to be exactly how it used to be - infinitely easier to get the words in to the point where you don't even need to look at the keyboard!

I’m praying this works. I have the same experience as everyone else here.

I just disabled both, also disabled keyboard sound and enabled haptics. A much better typing experience!

This helped my typing. Does slide to type change the target area of the keys? With it on it seems like I am hitting keys on the line below I am targeting. With it off, many fewer typos.

Slide to type uses a neighbourhood rather than a key. It’s by far my favourite way of typing on a phone. After a bit of training it’s close to magical. Google implementation beats Apple however.

I’m not sure. I suspect that it does cause the phone to take more liberties regarding which key you “meant” to hit.

Thank you! I used to think it is only me who is suffering. It seems to have helped but would need to try this for a few days to know for sure.

This fixed it for me. Wow. Been having the exact same thoughts as OP. Thank you.

This should be higher up.

This right here is the one thing that you can actually do to improve your typing and lower your misspellings by a whole lot.

Seems to even work for samsung keyboards. Thanks, I actually have a helpful keyboard now.

You are a godsend.

Will see how it goes, but it does seem to be better now.

This crap should be disabled by default and iphone needs to request signing 20 agreements before it gets enabled

I got a notice about it when the feature was released, but I seem to recall it was a notice rather than a prompt. I immediately noticed a decrease in accuracy and disabled it. This thread is the first time I thought about that decision in years.

I’m confused — merely enabling swipe typing makes the accuracy of tap typing worse??

Yes. I imagine our fingers slide a little when typing even if we don't mean to.

Super late to the reply party but another thank you. I thought I was losing my mind, with like a 40% accuracy rate. Im up to like 90% just turning this on.

Thank you!

Seems like a strange default, I wonder how many users actually slide to type?

I do, but as far as I understood slide to type was not the default, I recall having to go find a switch to turn it on when the first beta that included it came out

I believe for new installs it defaults to on

This is true. I started fresh with an iPhone 14, no restore from backup, no sign-in to iCloud, and slide-to-type was enabled.

This should be part of the iOS setup screen: "For how many years have you been using iOS devices?" and automatically disable it if the answer is superior to 10!

It's not the default as long as you are carrying forward your settings from phone to phone. (That is, there was no "flag day" when it was turned on for everyone, afaik.)

This is the best thing I've ever learned on the internet.

This should be top voted comment.

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