HACKER Q&A
📣 paganel

How is anyone managing to type at length on a new iPhone?


Used to have an iPhone SE until a couple of months ago, stil had an older OS version on it (I think 12 something) , at which point I bought an iPhone 14 with the latest OS.

Unfortunately I’ve since found out that trying to write longer messages on it is just atrocious. I somehow manage to mistakenly hit an Enter key out of nowhere (I swear I can’t explain how), for one reason or another even when my keyboard is set to Romanian (my native language) I receive auto-completions in English, and vice/versa, trying to pinpoint something in the middle of a text I’ M writing with my thumb somehow selects an entire word, no matter how hard I try to “hit” in the empty spaces between words, which then only gives me the option of either correcting that word or deleting it (I want to do neither of that), and some other “deaths by a thousand cuts” thingies that make writing on this quite expensive device a stupid challenge (we used to have all of this solved long ago).

Very frustrating.


  👤 wryoak Accepted Answer ✓
Text selection/cursor placement has indeed gotten quite terrible, but at this point I don’t think they care because people are just dictating and sending audio messages now. The world is moving on from smartphone typing