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I agree the keyboard is crappy, and if you use slide typing it’s absolute crap. The period placement is a huge pet peeve. I think it affects right handed people more than left handed - just anecdotally, but I could be wrong.

Gboard…I tried it many times over the years and more recently with my iPhone 15. My experience is that it’s worse than the Apple keyboard. I use slide typing heavily, and daily use two languages. Gboard…is cumbersome in my case because it relies solely on guessing the words you’re typing, and because multiple languages are all a hodgepodge in one single keyboard pot (aka with Gboard you don’t explicitly switch languages) the autocorrect gets in the way a lot. Also when long pressing a key to choose a special character like ă, the delay is way too long. So I went back to the devil I know.

Definitely all in what you get used to. I've barely used android (last time I had one was probably 8-10 years ago). Anytime I've tried using any Gboard or any other 3rd party keyboards on iOS they drove me crazy and I ended up switching back.

Did they make a recent change to the keyboard? I remember having that problem, but now my keyboard looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Vkzd4l7.png

If I want to type a period I have to go to this screen:

https://i.imgur.com/oesLN0p.png

And I usually just double tap space bar at the end of a sentence. I think it’s been like this for a while but haven’t thought about it. I use swipe for most typing.

Your fat fingers and lack of dexterity aren't Apple's fault. I've been using iPhones since the very first and I can't say I've ever had any trouble with the keyboard.

Yea, i wish there were a better keyboard but whenever I try another one like Swiftkey, the keyboard itself is marginally better but the mouse cursor function when you hold the spacebar is terrible compared to the default Apple keyboard. You can move it around anywhere on the screen like a mouse with the default keyboard compared to the others that seem to track the lines of text which just doesn't feel intuitive at all. I personally don't see a big enough difference in the keyboards themselves to compromise on the mouse function which i tend to use a lot.

Also got an iphone like 3 days ago and I am also coming from a pixel 6 yes the keyboard on the iphone is a weak aspect specially is you are bilingual I noticed it struggles more

It’s funnet, the keyboard is absolutely perfect for me but I dont type on a regular english keyboard, so the extra letters sort of ‘fixes’ the layout.

I miss the number row on Apple keyboard.

My keyboard doesn’t have a period at all on the main keyboard screen. I have to double press the space bar to get a full stop.

Go to settings-general-keyboard and untick the “.” shortcut, atleast you get rid of the annoying period on the right side this way

Can you share which apps you are using that has this period next to the spacebar on the keyboard? Because the only time I can get it to appear is when typing URLs, and the Gboard also has the period next to the spacebar there

it is very bad indeed had the iphone since last year november 4th 2022
but I didnt know auto correct could be a problem until I tried the apple keyboard

oh yeah we know.

Use swiftkey. It's close enough

FYI, coming from android you must love customization (i did atleast) and you can actually make your phone unique by using tools such as cowbunga lite ( Cause your on ios 17 probably ) and flux which are tools to customize your phone without the disadvantages of a jailbreak

apple’s stock keyboard is boring

Been there done that, from pixel to iphone >gboard>swiftkey

I.love.it

Word! I miss very few things about android but my keyboard is one, I know I can add other keyboards but they just don’t function right 🤷‍♂️

i guess it depends what ur used to, any time i get an android i try and make the layout like ios lol

Prepare your heart for the final boss, that is the calculator

Sometimes I wonder if I’m too lucky with the one good iPhone 14pro that was made cuz damn, the things people complain about…

Funny. I really enjoy the iPhone keyboard. The Android keyboard drove me crazy lol

Just use Fleksy Keyboard. It's the best all around. Mostly because you can really quickly add new words to your dictionary. So it makes it easy to type in multiple languages at the same time or use specific terminology.

It's also much faster and accurate, than swipe based keyboards

I think the issue is with the return key, which is normally a big key and people got used to clicking the left part of the key to press return. However, on Safari, that return key is split into full stop and return key and people subconsciously click that full stop thinking of return key.

So on your app store, search/download"Gboard". Open the app, follow the instructions. Gboard is 100% is a better keyboard than the original ios keyboard

I just want a number row, fuck me right?

Oh my god thank you for posting this, I had NO CLUE iPhone brought keyboard haptics back!!! Feels so much better now, +1 to OP

My only complaint is that it doesn't have a built in clipboard.

It was good four or five years ago but for some reason, Apple changed it.

For me iPhone keyboard is hundred times better than Samsung or Google.. I don’t know why I hate keyboards in Android phones..

I use swiftkey on iPhone. The stock keyboard is borderline unusable.

Keyboard and gestures are really terrible.

Just install GBoard

It was good before four or five years ago but for some reason, Apple changed it.

The keyboard is awful, and how can we not increase the size of the keys? Anyway, I use swiftkeys now which is a lot better and it actually has a number row, but I still can't change the size of the keys.

The space bar is friggin massive. How are you hitting the period so much? Could this just be a muscle memory thing?

I really think this keyboard got bad with the latest iOS. They hyped it up so much about its predictive text. It’s way off and just difficult to use compared to GBoard.

You're ok with the notifications?

I completely agree, I also miss having a wider variety of symbols on my keyboard and having the number row always display. Text selection is also super weird and inconsistent on iOS. I still choose not to use gboard though cause it looks out of place