I hope rants are allowed on r/apple... didn't see anything about it in the rules.
My iOS keyboard has new behavior since a few days ago. I have most of the QOL features turned off because I sometimes mix different languages, use abbreviations and sometimes need to communicate scientific names/concepts that aren't saved in dictionaries. I do like the "predictive" option because it saves me from typing commonly used words. Apparently there is now an auto-fill feature that is grouped with the predictive keyboard option. So, if I type "Backe" (german for cheek) but iOS thinks the most likely word I am writing is "backed" it will automatically add a "d" when I hit space.
I
HATE
THIS
Please for the love of god put all the auto-correct / auto-format / auto-fill / auto-bulls*** options separately from the other QOL options. Predictive text options IS NOT the same as typing things automatically for me. It should never be combined.
Anybody else experiencing this frustration? Does anybody have a workaround? I have never really experimented with custom keyboards before but maybe I should.
All I know is that Apple said they've improved the keyboard with iOS 17 and frankly I've never been more frustrated with it. I don't know what they even did but here's the problems I've been having:
I used to love alternate keyboards on Android and tried to keep up with them once I moved to iOS but it's usually not a great experience here because of Apple's restrictions. But at this point the stock keyboard has become so bad that I feel like I have no choice. It has been making my phone demonstrably worse as of late.
Anybody have any third-party keyboards they recommend?
Press and hold the spacebar for fine control of the cursor
I'll do that and put it exactly where I want and sometimes it just goes right back to the end. This is what I mean; that was a function I've used since it was a force touch feature and it's gotten worse and worse since. Now I just find it weirdly unreliable.