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Most of my issues were fixed when I disabled swipe to type. Not all, but most.

I've heard this advice before and I've tried it, and I really didn't notice a difference. I also, unfortunately, use swipe to type a lot. If I'm typing one handed I'm pretty much always using swipe. Sure it barely works, but that's the same as if I was typing normally so feels like a wash.

Keyboard works fine. Always has. iPhone just has so many users that there's going to be a plethora of passionate unpleasable nerds for every single facet of it. Even in your ideal virtual keyboard version, there was an army of people complaining that it wasn't a hardware keyboard.

No it doesn’t.

It did work fine before. But I had to swipe 3 times to get “fine” instead of “going” just now

Fine fine fine seems to be working fine with swipe and normal, idk dude, maybe y'all are just aging ungracefully

I’ve never really disliked the keyboard. I’m not entirely sure what they’re talking about. That being said I’ve never used swipe to text so maybe that factors in, or never having had a smartphone other than an iPhone.

If you had ever used Swype on Android (it was only briefly on iOS, and wasn't as good as the Android version yet), you would understand how good keyboards could be 10-12 years ago. Perfect precise cursor placement. Cut, copy, paste, and select shortcuts. It was not perfect, but it was rapidly getting there.

Microsoft bought and killed it without, apparently, learning from it. Maybe there was a good reason why, but I've never seen one.

This is misinformation, please provide sources to your claims. The iOS keyboard degraded in the latest versiond.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2952872/heres-proof-that-th...

Source, my thumb typing this flawlessly with one try.

keyboard's fine

no macro support is not fine for me but wouldn't want grandma to have it so hmm

Nice strawman, and unnecessary attack. I'm using iPhones since the 3GS, and from time to time type on an Android and the keyboard on iOS _sucks_. As someone else wrote, I am loathing to chat with someone on the phone and rather switch to my laptop.

Nice appeal to been using the phone for long time, but i waited in line for the original so you’ll have to defer to me

okay.

In case anyone else is going crazy trying to find this setting, it’s called slide to type

AHH thank you!!

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