{"id":25303,"date":"2019-05-17T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25303"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:48:21","slug":"three-ios-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/17\/three-ios-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Three iOS Keyboard Changes Apple Should Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3396039\/three-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make-to-ios.html\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3396039\/three-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make-to-ios.html\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve become more and more puzzled about autocorrect in recent years. In my personal experience, it&rsquo;s become both worse at fixing legitimate typos <em>and<\/em> more aggressive about taking actual words and turning them into nonsense. The latter is many times more frustrating; I&rsquo;ve watched more than a few sentences turn incomprehensible before my very eyes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&rsquo;ve been impressed with swipe typing when I&rsquo;ve used it in other keyboards&mdash;the biggest thing holding me back is that it&rsquo;s not available on the system keyboard. Third-party keyboard support is still limited on iOS, and it&rsquo;s often buggy and crash-prone.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apple already offers a way to search for emoji on the Mac, it&rsquo;s more than a little puzzling that it wouldn&rsquo;t make a similar feature available on iOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/03\/apples-emoji-search-is-bad\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Emoji Search is Bad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/swype-keyboard-discontinued\/\">Swype Keyboard Discontinued<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/29\/swiftkey-keyboard-leaked-user-information-to-strangers\/\">SwiftKey Keyboard Leaked User Information to Strangers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"three-ios-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make-update-2019-05-31\">Update (2019-05-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerunnering\/status\/1129525125135642627\">Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerunnering\/status\/1129525125135642627\">\n<p>&ldquo;In my personal experience, it&rsquo;s become both worse at fixing legitimate typos and more aggressive about taking actual words and turning them into nonsense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&rsquo;t agree more. It&rsquo;s been a disaster ever since around iOS 10 when they switched to machine learning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rsebbe\/status\/1129491468769476614\">Raphael Sebbe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rsebbe\/status\/1129491468769476614\">\n<p>I find SwiftKey has more accurate completion, allows swipe-typing, has better multi-lingual support, is better at emojis.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is the 3D-touch selection mode: looks like they can&rsquo;t replicate 2D panning like Apple does (API limitation?). Too bad, so useful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/apple-expected-to-remove-3d-touch\/\">Apple Expected to Remove 3D Touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"three-ios-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make-update-2019-06-03\">Update (2019-06-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twolivesleft\/status\/1134623767450144768\">Simeon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twolivesleft\/status\/1134623767450144768\">\n<p>Has iOS autocorrect gotten incredibly bad for anyone else? It used to correct common mistakes but now it just replaces entirely valid words with other similar words turning sentences into nonsense<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"three-ios-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make-update-2019-06-04\">Update (2019-06-04): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/06\/03\/apple-unveils-ios-13-dark-mode-swipe-keyboard\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/06\/03\/apple-unveils-ios-13-dark-mode-swipe-keyboard\/\">\n<p>Apple has also added a swipe to type feature to the stock iOS keyboard called QuickPath, which brings easy one-hand typing to the iOS keyboard by continuously swiping through the letters of a word, and Memoji are automatically made into sticker packs built into the iOS keyboard, so they can be used in Messages, Mail and other apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: I&rsquo;ve become more and more puzzled about autocorrect in recent years. In my personal experience, it&rsquo;s become both worse at fixing legitimate typos and more aggressive about taking actual words and turning them into nonsense. The latter is many times more frustrating; I&rsquo;ve watched more than a few sentences turn incomprehensible before my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-05-17T20:39:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"fe7eb97f-ef54-47b6-9bc7-4e7ea3499efc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-29T20:48:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_n65f-9UR7abx05-o0me_A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,1623,257,31,1610,423,343,1005],"class_list":["post-25303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-auto-correction","tag-emoji","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-keyboard","tag-search","tag-swiftkey"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25511,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303\/revisions\/25511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}