Why The iPhone Keyboard Sucks

[@inenfmk]

That's exactly what I felt when I bought my first iPhone: it's inconvenient to constantly switch to type numbers, commas, and periods. I guess one day they'll introduce the number row and periods as a "revolution".

[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

LOLOL

[@RabbitConfirmed]

Apple will introduce a fart as a "revolution"

[@kevin7649]

It will happen the same year you can charge & use their mouse at the same time

[@maxonite]

I sorta got used to it and since I have an SE i like that the keyboard takes up little space on the display

[@MrMattaiusify]

"It works like magic"

[@andrewhelbigvoiceover]

Very very true. Switched to iphone from android a few years ago and really like it EXCEPT typing on it. So much harder... especially if you are trying to go back and edit one word you messed up or something, it's so hard to select a certain part of the text

[@芲]

Hold the space bar and move it, it can accurately select where you want

[@AahYush]

@@芲 still alot of work than tapping where u wanna correct.

[@Erdeseldw]

You can swipe on words to correct it btw

[@kaneru8593]

Can't u download Google keyboard?

[@yon68]

@@kaneru8593lmao that's a closed ecosystem you can't even dowload another call app.

[@stormrider01]

I came from Android and yes it sucks so much!!! You dind´t mention this problem: When I want to correct one letter of a word in a text, you can´t position the cursor right there where you tapped with the finger, no, instead the cursor always moves to the back or the front of the word and you need to manually move the corsor with the space bar by long pressing it and drag it where you want. This method is so slow and frustrating that sometimes I want to smash my phone to the wall!!

[@V100X]

Maybe pressing the text till the magnifier appears helps a bit

[@stormrider01]

@@V100X Also too damn slow. On Android it’s instant.

[@Ran-jd8ug]

THEN COME BACK TO ANDROID. PROBLEM SOLVED

[@fourierxfm]

💯 I hate this aspect of iPhones as well!

[@jeskli11]

Google keyboard from App Store, although may look almost the same, is waaay better. You can customize it, predicts words much better and with the right settings of correcting you don't have to fight it at all. It also brings the comma beside the space key and offers numbers when holding the uppermost row of keys. Also allows for swipe function, which I tend to use just once in a while, but then the typing can be super fast. Surely worth trying. The only downside is Apple disables third-party keyboards in some parts of the system, then it's a nightmare to type something on Apple's keyboard after being used to Google's.

[@niels1917]

so just a bit of Android :)

[@time2livelife]

I used to use this but then they changed it so it had way more typos. I switched to the Grammarly keyboard.

[@tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj3429]

SwiftKey is miles ahead of any keyboard.

[@747simmer4]

@@time2livelifesame

[@SanctusBacchus]

Issue with Gboard is that the autocorrect has been broken for months now.

[@uzzzzy]

So correct, i bought an iPhone 13 pro max a year ago . The lack of the numbers on the top was the number 1 reason why i went back to s22 ultra. Samsung spoiled me with this feature. The constant switching from number to text at setup and few days of using the iPhone was so painful. Great video.

[@braedonmorrissey7548]

can we download a 3rd party keyboard that has these features? Gboard for example

[@LinoSey]

Yeah you can actually

[@aabderrahmane]

@@braedonmorrissey7548yes you can, that’s why I’m confused at the original comment… how can you justify switching to another phone because of something that can so easily be changed (gboard for example)

[@IceBlueLugia]

You could’ve just downloaded Gboard couldn’t you? I’m confused

[@NoChillMan]

As someone who switched from android and got an iPhone last year, I was able to get used to basically everything, but the keyboard is definitely not great. It would be greatly improved if you could long press the top row of letters to get numbers, and long press other letters to get common symbols, like on android. They got this right on the iPad keyboard, not sure why they don't bring it to iPhone in some form. I tried adding Gboard to my iPhone, but many apps will still bring up the regular keyboard instead of Gboard, and that inconsistency is more annoying than just dealing with the iPhone keyboard.

[@Kevynmorgan]

I had that issue when I switched to SwiftKey it took a lil while until the os understood I wanted SwiftKey.. Now I rarely see the native ios keyboard

[@barsadal1738]

Seeing as how Apple has been neglecting iPads since iPadOS' launch feature-wise, it might be about time they back-port this (edit: "this": the iPad alternative character swipe function) to mainstream iOS IMO. PS: You can force all apps to use a third party keyboard if you move it to the top in the keyboard languages list, that way, because it's the first "language" option, apps will default to it first time using the keyboard. This took me way too long to figure out but it was such a pleasant surprise when I did.

[@loneshxdow]

i’m glad i didn’t have this issue as my first phone was iPhone 4s

[@jennamichelle2001]

I love Apple, but the thing I hate about iPhone and iPad keyboards is that when I type by sliding my finger across keys, it often guesses my words wrong.

[@mehornyasfk]

I have both English and Vietnamese keyboard installed. My biggest issue is, using slide-to-type on the English keyboard often gives out Vietnamese texts, and vice versa. It gets really annoying at times.

[@丁日光]

Thế thì thôi mua Samsung đi ní:))

[@autoknacker]

The predictive feature is kind of alrightish when typing in English, but when I start to type in German or Polish it's an absolute useless nightmare

[@bjorvy5097]

As a user of a different language (Swedish) keyboard most of the time, shifting over to the English keyboard from time to time, especially when browsing the internet, can often be incredibly jarring because my alphabet has more letters than English (28 instead of 25). Thish often makes the English keyboard actually feel too sparse. Also, typing out Captchas with the iPhone keyboard making you have to switch keyboards back and forth really does feel like an unnecessary hassle.

[@Alojayden]

I turned off autocorrect like 3 years ago so I didn't know they changed it

[@JohnDoe-jb5ko]

It’s frustrating that when I swipe to type in the word “and” it sometimes replaces it with “Ava”. The most frustrating part about that is I don’t know who Ava is!

[@USA_Shark]

I'm using Microsoft SwiftKey on my iPhone

[@jerrybade465]

Every iOs iteration , I hope to see the number row. Another topic, why we can't attach a contact while typing an SMS?

[@AJsWorld]

I’ve been using iPhone since the 3G model, never had any of these issues

[@ene_n]

i just noticed i put commas and periods without noticing i tap the 123 button lol

[@Supreme_punisher33]

Oh so I’m not the only one that experiences that

[@ohiosfinest]

It's been this way ever since Apple allowed 3rd party keyboards on iOS. Now it's just best to use Gboard.

[@ca_lcium]

I loathe the keyboard on the iPad... I cannot understand why there is no row for numbers on the main front, I have to go into the numbers page for them... And the "swipe up" symbols are slow and awkward.

[@LesaChannel]

Let’s be honest, every smartphone keyboard sucks

[@os2171]

This is true. The worst is that as iPhone user you take this flaws for granted, as if this is the way things should be. Thanks for bringing into conciseness

[@BrainPermaDeD]

Then the apple sheep will be a loyal sucker of Apple's ####.

[@maxonite]

I personally like the iPhone keyboard. And I’ve used android for years

[@jackjackum]

@@maxonite It looks nice but some of the faults of it can be annoying at times.

[@bornapc]

@@BrainPermaDeD I'm an Apple fan but I suffering this issue . I hate the auto correct but I use it because I don't like to typing with wrong spell but autocorrect is actually stupid sometimes

[@BrainPermaDeD]

@@bornapc I disabled autocorrect altogether.

[@SchakOb]

If I would get a dollar for every mistake I made with the Apple keyboard, I’d be a millionaire (from an Apple user)

[@urmumscow3206]

The reason you aren’t one is because you say “a apple” you’d have no ability to save it

[@luv4nisah]

@@urmumscow3206 LMFAOOO

[@raheem201231]

An Apple*

[@Manchesterunited00]

@@urmumscow3206 zawg 😭😭😭😭

[@obito9078]

@@urmumscow3206 he propably wrote it on apple keyboard

[@matticolo]

2:33 “sometimes you have to fight with autocorrect” 😂

[@MP112791]

spot on. This issue was relieved a bit with the use of swiftkey... but since apple now limited the use of 3rd party keyboards, the experience is truly frustrating. I do miss the android keyboard.

[@heyspookyboogie644]

I could be wrong, but as I recall, the keyboard used to learn from the individual user on how they typed, what they tended to misspell, slang, etc. but at some point they switched to using a more cloud / community based learning system that based everything on the most common uses/issues for all users. Imo it’s definitely been worse ever since.

[@pilotavery]

Google keyboard also syncs it to your account. Text prediction is so good and sometimes it can autocorrect words like four words ago if it's extremely confident that it is misspelled based off of context. Same thing with voice typing. If you say a whole sentence, sometimes the first or second word can completely change based off of the last word you say kind of like how people hear you and then suddenly with context what they said clicks.

[@pilotavery]

Google keyboard is the best keyboard hands down.

[@RowanBird779]

I don't think the people at Apple realize that more complex and internet connect isn't better

[@RealJohnO]

⁠​⁠@@pilotavery Microsoft SwiftKey is better than Google keyboard IMO.

[@adrianphoenix5604]

I used to love swiftkey may go back since apple got weird with theirs

[@ThebikerBross]

As a iPhone user, this is true for sure!(thanks for the likes I’ve never had this much)

[@bw2532]

the were -> we're is for real a struggle.

[@KobrokoHere]

@@bw2532 I feel you, these mistakes we're always a problem with modern iphone typing. Typing texts is really inconvenient in my phone that I know use my mac for it

[@fytgfun]

by the way you can change the keyboard on iphone by just downloading gboard

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

Get the Grammarly keyboard ⌨️ and emoji is working on the current version of it

[@BubbaSnipe03]

I like the apple keyboard and I just went back to android and I like the Ghored because it's similar to apple

[@yafi6214]

Disabling autocorrect is one of the very first things I do when I set up a new phone. I keep suggestions on, that’s more convenient for me whatever algorithms they use or however “smart“ it is.

[@AndreaAustoni]

I disable autocorrect on Android. I type in 3 or more language call the time and the phone would go crazy

[@genXcripple]

i hate my iphone keyboard

[@Sam25055]

I think it’s ok after you use it for awhile

[@AltF-gt2fy]

Everybody does 😔

[@AleksGawel]

What if you don't have android

[@hatedragonz]

You know you can change the default keyboard to gboard.

[@TamalCyrus]

Back in the day, the biggest flex an iPhone user had , was their keyboard. It took me a century to open a keyboard in Android while iPhone seemed to be buttery. This is one area apple stopped investing or innovating.

[@Miko36110]

Oh yeah I remember that, it would take a while to open the keyboard on Android especially third party ones!

[@Metamine0]

In general, it feels like Apple just doesn't properly invest in software as much anymore. The constant issues with iOS 16 for a not insignificant amount of people is a testament to that

[@user-me1mv4vy9q]

Lol ye, ios and android has always been working on different things. Ios had been working on the smoothness and ecosystem and android was working on features and ui, and now they're both doing the opposite

[@kevin7649]

​@@user-me1mv4vy9q Android front loaded feature packing it's OS in the early years, and are now focusing more on qol improvements. Where Apple does the slow drip to keep adding new features that have existed for years like the always on display

[@CyanideLucifer]

Apple Switched from an Innovative company that focuses on design, to a company that's solely based off of sales and Marketing. They've definitely lost their touch

[@alirezaghaffarian9038]

Espacially for me who usesmultiple languages on iPhone, it is VERY frustrating as I tap the globe icon too many time when I am meant to tap the icon that takes me to the grammar symbols. When I come back, I don't have my original language, so I have to toggle back to what I was originally typing

[@hairsiluet]

Right… ⌨️📲

[@sussy001]

You can just press and hold the globe button to change keyboards easily

[@szilardladocki5863]

you can swipe up on the globe and let go on the language that you need. This can be very useful but also causes alot of accidents for me.

[@IOT552]

Usually you don’t even need the glove cause the iPhone switches seamlessly between languages on mine?

[@sheet3335]

true

[@KlassicCar98]

Great video. I always wondered why I struggled typing on my phone. One of the most annoying issues I had with the keyboard is autocorrect always changing the word “well” to “we’ll” no matter what the context is in this sentence. Always have to erase the apostrophe myself

[@erikvanstenis]

you can change that

[@oosha2000]

Why not disable the autocorrection ?

[@erikvanstenis]

@@idontbegivingafuckk you can just turn off text replacement or delete it in the list

[@DAVEROULEAUwys]

Omg yes. I thought I was going crazy. But it always changes “well” into “we’ll”. It’s so strange.

[@carolinejohnsonartist5650]

And there is no back back button other than to erase. SOOOO Anoying. I will never buy another iphone

[@bradsmithstudios8881]

When I got my first iPhone in 2008 the typing was fantastic. It’s slowly degraded into a complete mess. I’m sure it’s from loading more and more code on top to try and fix issues rather than actually redesigning it to function properly.

[@iquanyin1]

this barely even scratches the surface of all the crap it does, but it hits some highlights. thanks for making it. please everyone, send this to tim cook. maybe if he sees it a million times he’s decide to actually listen to users for once.

[@FloresdorfGaming]

For someone who has an Android phone and an iPad, autocorrect is frustrating. I often need to fight against it. Gboard just learns new words I use very often and highlights things it thinks it's wrong.

[@ItsIcedDonut]

Tbf you can get g board om ios

[@shranikdua3442]

@@ItsIcedDonutthe layout of gboard on ipad is worse than ipados keyboard

[@andrejtb1]

Not just that but also you cant even adjust the keyboard size

[@ItsIcedDonut]

@@shranikdua3442 Ah right thanks for telling me.

[@Kevynmorgan]

@@ItsIcedDonut SwiftKey is better

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

This is something I noticed myself very consciously in the last couple of years. I’m fine with the numbers and comma being behind the button, I prefer this. But the multiple language issue and especially the autocorrect issues do affect me. Sometime I get the strangest suggestions too, accented words that I’ve never seen before and that don’t appear in either language I have active. The other big issue is the dictation symbol. I don’t use this. I don’t want to keep accidentally hitting that button, let me remove it.

[@jakeyounglol]

also i hate that there's an emoji key cutting the numbers key in half just bc i have multiple keyboards.

[@TraktorTarzan]

comma and punctuation being hidden behind a key is dumb( i know you can double press space for punctuation, its still one extra tap) its completely unecessary and makes writing SOOOO much slower. also the predictive text on IOS is slow an unaccurate for absolutely no reason, at all. And it cannot handle 2 languages at once, without physically changing language. which was almost no issue on my 10 year old and 5 year old android(sometimes the algorithm learned a wrong word, but 98% of the time it was no issue) I got no clue why its not fixed, and its frustrating cause im kinda forced to use an iphone for the next 3 years

[@samvieten_official]

as soon as you add another language the keyboard gets worse, add a third language and it's nearly unfunctional at this point. I had to disable autocorrect and suggestions and then - the keyboard mechanics itself are quite bad. I can type on an "o" and get an "i". So I investigated into this and it seems if the phone is a bit hotter the more often it takes a key next to he one touched. Also the hotter... well not hot, just warm, the device is the more stuttering I get on an iPhone 13 just using the keyboard... it's like it takes a ton of performance why ever.

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

@@Spiritbusters thanks, think that must be new in ios17 because I played a lot there before with no luck! But yeah can deffo do that now.

[@georgeemerald4389]

Why in the world would you prefer that?

[@Nightflyer720]

Apple should be embarrassed to ship this useless keyboard with "premium" devices. No number row, no expected shortcuts on keys, essential punctuation hidden, atrocious dictation, and haptic feedback so weak it's virtually imperceptible. On top of that, if you switch to SwiftKey or Gboard for a better experience, voice dictation on those keyboards struggles with basic capitalization and grammar rules - of course, because Apple MAKES it that way. Glad someone made a post about this. It blows my mind that these gargoyles have the audacity to insult their users so blatantly.

[@joshuanesbit]

I had a blackberry for about 2 years between 2011 and 2013 and within hours of getting it, I could type perfectly with minimal mistakes. I've had many different iphones now for ten years and still can't type without errors!

[@marioluigi9599]

Wow apple must be dumb. After 10 years they still haven't sorted it

[@marioluigi9599]

I'm guessing the people that make the iPhone don't even use it themselves. Otherwise they'd realise how bad it is

[@dmfinpa]

Agree. I had a much better keyboard experience with Blackberries of the past than I’ve ever had on the iPhone. I wish I could get rid of Autocorrect options line and see it replaced by a numbers line.

[@MCHLvisual]

Even though the apple’s keyboard can be a bit annoying, for me personally being an apple user for a long time, I’ve actually gotten used to apple’s keyboard layout. When I try to use an android keyboard, I actually find myself having more of a hard time. Of course this is just me, me personally I like apple’s keyboard.

[@armen_kocharyan]

If you got used to shit, it doesn't mean that you don't like to eat shit

[@vexun11]

One of the main reasons I left android was I could type much faster on iOS. The s23 was pretty good though.

[@sas408]

same here, for me its android keyboards are torture. There was touchwiz keyboard on android and its the last usable one for me. Sadly, after meizu died it just became an adware so later i figured out it was an iOS keyboard clone and bought my first iPhone. Also most of my friends say iOS keyboard is better after switching from xiaomi/samsungs

[@dandavidson4717]

I agree that the layout is fine, but predictions, autocorrect, and swipe-typing accuracy are all extremely poor compared to others.

[@o_s-24]

On samsung keyboards you can also have alternate characters (from the "numbers" section) for letter keys which makes typing even more fast. Also using the whole keyboard as a trackpad is pretty useful. Out of all the things I don't like about iphones, their keyboard is nearly at the top

[@huzefa69]

samsung keyboard isnt that great either. Gboard is better

[@MarcSpctr]

​@@huzefa69Samsung is the literal best, if you like Gboard layout, you can just change Samsung keyboards layout as you like key by key including height and width of every single key and literally make it GBoard layout.

[@Bronyboiiiii]

@@huzefa69 This might be true for the autocorrect. But what I love about samsungs keyboard is that you can replace, resize and even add or delete every button you want. That means you can put your own keyboard together without any limitations. You want a smaller spacebar and some special emojis there? Just change it. The only drawback is that everyone else hates me when they try to type with my keyboard xD

[@NicolastheThird-h6m]

Android keyboards the best in my opinion, you don't have to type, in fact im typing this using a trackpad.

[@aadithjkrishna]

​@Bronyboi_uwu also you can type change it to show custom things like if you type email it will just spell your email ID or whatever you change it to I think that also is really good

[@MedicalStudentChannel]

I can say one thing: since Steve Jobs died, Apple died

[@TheBrimFactor]

Download and use the swift keyboard, that's the only way to type on your iPhone without having chronic anxiety and frustration.

[@Octofinite]

This is why I use Microsoft SwiftKey on my iPhone. Works SO much better.

[@aris1956]

Often the keyboard on the iPhone, as well as the iPad (what I use most to write), is a catastrophe. When using dictation mode, most of the time it writes different things from what I say. Then another annoying problem I notice, the cursor that in most cases never stays where I put it, but jumps either to the beginning or end of the sentence.

[@V100X]

Try to hold the space bar to move the cursor, or hold the cursor till the magnifier appears

[@aris1956]

⁠​⁠@@V100X I use the space bar to move the cursor, because I personally find it more practical, but as I said above the cursor often doesn't stay where I place it. Hold the cursor until the magnifier appears It works more accurately, it doesn't jump at the beginning or the end, but I find it more uncomfortable.

[@SmitePlayz1]

​@@V100X u must be an apple fanboy. Totally makes sense that u have to waste time by holding the spacebar and slowly taking the cursor where u want instead of being able to tap anywhere and the cursor will go where u tapped.

[@V100X]

@@SmitePlayz1 I was just suggesting alternatives in case he she didn’t know them, makes sense?

[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

Yesss!!! The cursor!

[@BassedInVegas]

Yep, totally agreed with your assessment of the iphone keyboard. The no numbers row above the letters is definitely extremely frustrating. Why Apple doesn’t put the numbers on the keyboard is just plain stupid. There’s been many times I think about switching back to Android just because of the dumb keyboard on the IPhone. The Galaxy S23 keeps looking better and better everyday when viewing the Iphone 15 rumors. Apple seriously needs to catch up to Samsung in many ways !!!!!!!

[@keijijohnson9754]

And with how buggy their recent version of iOS has been along with how many features they keep removing for no good reason, it really makes it clear that a switch is necessary.

[@kevin7649]

​@@ibraal6798 you might want a phone with a more secure version of Android

[@SimonBauer7]

​@@kevin7649 even android 8 is fine unless you are some kind of tech illiterate person.

[@kdt110]

I don't know if this would fix all your issues but can't you just switch to Gboard? I'm an android user so I really don't know.

[@rodhashemi]

@@kdt110 Yes, you can. Why people don’t just do this instead of complaining so much is beyond me.

[@jeffreysnyder8830]

My iPhone almost refuses to type the word “like,” instead autocorrecting to “Lille.” I can’t remember having a reason to talk about a city in northern France, certainly not as often as I use the word “like.”

[@LAZZAMCPE]

Miss using 3D Touch with keyboard

[@mirzarizwanbaig9449]

I've been using Microsoft swift keyboard since 2019 and it's the best iOS keyboard ❤❤❤ Never going back to native iOS keyboard 😊

[@sactopyrshep]

How can I get this?

[@IrfoTech]

Been using it since 2014. Never shifted to any other keyboard since then :)

[@bluebirdsigma]

I love SwiftKey. Since it links to your MS account, your profile, including words learned, could be shared between platforms. The only thing I hate about it is that it seems to learn typos faster than actual words I use. I make a typo once, and then it keeps suggesting me the typo until I manually delete it from the history.

[@ProCodeSoftware]

It's discontinued

[@evilj]

@@ProCodeSoftware no, it's not. I just got it off the App store.

[@Riktooo]

I switched from ANDROID to IOS 5 months ago and the keyboard was a pain to use not just because the numbers are not available on top all the time but the letters are different from any other keyboard I ever used like Samsung keyboard or Gboard I know that you can download Gboard on IOS but it’s not polished which is way I switch to iPhone on the first place it’s because of that polish .

[@mobeezy81]

I use the G board and it's better than Apple stock keyboard but like you said, it's still not polished. Swiftkey was the best but it's no longer available for iOS

[@Riktooo]

@@mobeezy81 it really is a shame But overall it’s still a very good and nice device to own so “No regrets”

[@wesleyp3579]

2:20 happens all the time, super frustrating. I’ve also always had predictive text turned off. I can manually input the word much quicker than it would be to see it, recognize it’s correct, then tap it

[@mangostickyrye]

iPhone 14PM and Galaxy S23Ultra user/owner here. Great assessment. That's why I typically will reach for my S23Ultra way more often. Up until few days ago, I didn't know how to locate the degree symbol on iPhone 😂

[@dhaneshgoltekar2632]

Shifted from android to iPhone and this is an issue. Keyboard actually sucks. God knows when iPhone is going to learn and correct its faults.

[@209kranthi]

Before watching the video, I was expecting you to give reasons why Apple “had to make” the keyboard suck for some “higher purpose”. 😅

[@born2enjoy102]

'Why' meant that only but unfortunately Greg just talked about the problem and not the Why part.

[@zakaryan2004]

@@born2enjoy102 The why part is mostly covered in the first few seconds of the video. "Apple favoring form over function". About the other issues, there isn't a "why" other than the fact that Apple's development team started producing much buggier code in the last few years, which is easily proved with iOS 16's stability.

[@birklauritzen8563]

Well I guess Apple saw the video lmao

[@Jppen]

You can use commas or other symbols faster by dragging from the numbers button onto the symbol you need. When you release it will automatically go back to the regular keyboard.

[@ybbgraphicdesign]

Thanks!

[@subsonicdeathmonkey]

And a period by double tapping space.

[@AncTreat5358]

True, but if you go too far extended characters come up and you can't get to the key you wanted. In my case, I often want to choose question mark but overshoot to exclamation after dragging from the numbers button. I have to accept an exclamation character, delete it, and try again, all because I paused too long on exclamation trying to find my right key that my finger was obscuring.

[@orbitaljellyfish808]

Thanks👏👏

[@3lementa1]

Thanks for this advice!

[@djp1234]

When the iPhone first came out, autocorrect was really good. Now it's trash.

[@y4nns]

Honestly, I prefer the apple keyboard

[@carolinejohnsonartist5650]

Greg, you have hit the nail on the head. I hate those problems you mention and I will NEVER get another iPhone again. Another irritating feature is that if you go to contacts - search- the last three letters of the previous search are still sitting there and you need to clear the field by hitting the cross in order to start new searech. Dont these people test drive their over marketted super expensive toys? I hope Apple looks at this.

[@Jader13254]

Lmao so true. I also do not want iPhone because of this. And 1 million other reasons, like apples repair policy, walled garden and anti competitive practices.

[@yon68]

And no real "call history" And return gesture super dumb And siri being dumb while on lockscreen : you can set an alarm but can't change music...

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Thank god I never have to deal with an apple keyboard ever again. Also, you can't just click precisely in the middle of the word on apple. The cursor either goes to the front or back of the word. Also, the text to speech function is more accurate on Android. Furthermore, word prediction is more accurate on Android as well. Open source, open future, guys!

[@libbeytds]

What frustrates me daily is placing the cursor when text is highlighted. Like in Safari, I tap on the URL bar, the entire address gets highlighted, I have to drag one of the handles to the side, tap the unhighlighted text to place the cursor and the go from there. Also, I just wanna be able to scroll the address itself, instead of having to rely on picking up the cursor and hold it at the edge of the screen to get to the end of the address field.

[@trevinodude]

As someone who used to be an Android user who now uses iPhones, it’s true that I tend to make more typing mistakes as an iPhone user than I ever did when I was using a Samsung Galaxy. The way autocorrect works now is definitely a downgrade to how it worked on the Android phones I used and to older model iPhones. It’s especially annoying when I’m commenting on videos about games I enjoy, for example Mega Man Battle Network, where the MC has an uncommon name, such as Lan Hikari. There is several times I’m trying to talk about something amusing Lan did in the games or in the NT Warrior anime, and my iPhone tries to correct Lan into Alan. The fighting with autocorrect is quite annoying.

[@Estrius]

The keyboard was one of my top 3 reasons I had to switch back to Android after trying an iPhone. I attempted to use Gboard, but it's functionality is much more limited on iOS due to how Apple works that kind of stuff. It's too bad, cause I did like a lot of the UI elements to iOS, but functionality wise, it just didn't work for me.

[@jennelynabella2241]

Just bought an iPhone unit few days ago and it breaks my heart now. I'm annoyed with the keyboard. It's frustrating to type very slow. I wanna sell it immediately. 😢 I regret trying an iPhone.

[@sleepyzi]

Thanks for the info. I'm typing on samsung, and I was really thinking about trying an iPhone but now you got me thinking to not get one. (I'm pretty fast at typing with a few errors, but I can't stand typing very slow)

[@kimns5301]

​@@sleepyziAnd yet you haven't seen everything with this keyboard. The way you have to select to copy text is horribly slow and not precise. I switched back to Android 90% because of the keyboard

[@jonathancineus6424]

I’m glad this guy called out Apple’s flaw now. I kept wondering why I always got a period instead of a space when I was typing a sentence on Safari. 😤 😡 😠

[@flopo4]

i mean its kinda right, but for my personal experience, i can say that this was only a problem at the first months after switching. Now, after more than 2 years using an apple divice, i dont really feel that disadvantage. I would even say, that i'm way faster at writing than before. But the predective text thing really annoys me, especially if i'm not writing in my native language :/

[@jamesjohnXII]

How many times did you have to open a separate menu while typing this

[@flopo4]

@@jamesjohnXII count by yourself :D

[@Cyril376444]

I’ve noticed that things were worse but didn’t understand why. Thanks for this great video, and I hope Apple Pay’s attention to it.

[@altoidyoda]

I came here to see if anyone had the same complaints as me, but nothing described here is actually a problem.

[@d.b.cooper1]

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I THOUGHT I WAS GOING MAD! I've had an iPhone since my teens for like 10+ years now & it's not even something that you get used to over time. Annoying a!

[@TheOddLia]

When I added a new keyboard language, I hated the change where the numbers & symbols button was split in half. Most of the time, I found myself tapping the emoji key instead. I've since gotten used to this, but just wish Apple could have simply put the globe icon next to the emoji icon where it originally was, instead of completely moving the emoji icon to make extra room that they already had plenty of.

[@blackfalcon53]

Amazing video. Put into words so many of the irritations I had and never realised why. The inclusion of a period in the Safari keyboard is so pointless. Who is typing out full addresses these days not searching for them. Also very true about the predicative text constantly changing things I just corrected.

[@aepeessla]

But can't you press the space button 2 times to make a period ?

[@WatchMePopOff]

I honestly hated the size of the android keyboard. I used to like iPhone till it started fucking up every sentence I typed out. Is to us for no fucking reason. I used to rip up the older iOS keyboard without even thinking about it. Now I have double triple check my shit it’s so annoying .

[@Raff890]

I use swipe keyboard to avoid frustration and it works well for me and faster to type :)

[@mudchute4dlr]

sadly i dont have that feature on iPad :(

[@ironspider6851]

@@mudchute4dlr you can get that feature on ipad. 1) get the keyboard on your screen 2) take 2 fingers and zoom out (pinch) on the keyboard like you would zoom out on a photo. 3) you would notice that the keyboard has become small. 4) now you can swipe to text. 5) to get back to the full size keyboard just zoom in (pinch out) just like on a photo. ** this only works if your iPad is running iPadOS 13 or later**

[@mudchute4dlr]

i dont like the small text

[@mudchute4dlr]

@@ironspider6851 small keyboard*

[@edd9581]

at least in spanish i feel that is not very precise

[@PaulMaglaya]

Hehehe as a trilingual Pinoy, this is so true! That's why when Apple made it possible to use third-party keyboards on iOS in September 2014, I downloaded a few of them and settled on two of them since at least 2018: Gboard by Google for English (USA) and SwiftKey (independent at first then later acquired by Microsoft in February 2016) for Iloko (aka Ilokano) and Tagalog (aka "Filipino"). 👍👌🇵🇭🇺🇸

[@mo.na.x]

I mostly use two other languages when typing and this constantly happens to me as well. I’m just surprised to see that there are so many issues with English as well, which is supposed to be the language with the most updates and the most accurate one

[@derrickenamazameti8192]

The keyboard truly sucks. Just got my iphone and just realized iphone is highly overrated! I would be selling it soon to the fanboys

[@RzariRzari]

This is exactly what I felt when I switched from Andoid and thought something is wrong with me because everyone around says iPhone keyboard is so intuitive

[@GonzaJulii96]

Greg, you should also mention that for bilingual people the iPhone's keyboard used to be more reliable and allowed us to have different languages be typed at once, now it's practically impossible, and really really frustrating to do so.

[@time2livelife]

Really? Mine always tries to insert random Vietnamese words when I’m typing in English.

[@SeskaPrints]

As an iPhone user, I really like it despite the lack of a number row. Typing with commas and punctuation has become automatic, and the convenience of double tapping the space button for a full stop is great!

[@aykhan.g]

Literally every 100 usd android has double tap for full stop function

[@BamaChad-W4CHD]

IPhones lack of any customization is ridiculous. We can't even adjust the size of the keyboard. It's beyond anything except forced compliance

[@JayzsMr]

I recently switched from android to iPhone and the keyboard and prediction is just terrible, borderline unusable especially if you type in multiple languages. Worse you can’t really consistently use other keyboards on the iPhone because it randomly switches back to the apple keyboard for some reason. It’s terrible and has to be improved

[@SaltyInterlocutor]

This video validates my frustration in such a bittersweet way, lol. I switched to an iPhone last year after using Android phones for over a decade, and I have to say that everything about the transition has been an improvement - with the *very* glaring exception of the keyboard typing experience. And what's even more frustrating that all of the third-party keyboards I've tried are highly limited/flawed compared to their Android counterparts. It seems like some very simple adjustments (or even just fewer restrictions on third-party keyboards) could vastly improve the UX, but sadly it doesn't seem to be on Apple's radar. All that being said, I really love the new implementation of Dictation mode in iOS 16, and find myself using it more & more. I just wish it worked so seamlessly in macOS (which, at least on my M1 Macbook Air running Ventura, is so error-prone as to be essentially useless).

[@ryanbotha7256]

I have never struggled with this. Like at all. To me this keyboard feels far better and more well-spaced. If you want to do comma or full stop with only one touch, tap and hold the 123 button, with your finger still pressed on the screen, slide it over to the character you want, then let go on it and it will change back to letters :)

[@nobodycares607]

Average apple fanboy that eats everything they shit out even if it's not good

[@abdulbasit0123]

true isheep

[@ybbgraphicdesign]

And what about the clipboard??

[@imanalius7691]

Not working for me

[@ryanbotha7256]

@@ybbgraphicdesign Help me understand your question a little better? What are you asking about the clipboard? :)

[@SeskaPrints]

As an iPhone user, I really like it despite the lack of a number row. Typing with commas and punctuation has become automatic, and the convenience of double tapping the space button for a full stop is great!

[@SmitePlayz1]

Average iPhone user. Imagine defending the fact that u need to double tap the space bar for a period instead of a dedicated button unlike... Literally every phone in the market. And what about commas? On android, u click the "," key. On iOS, u go to the numbers page, click on comma key then click on the numbers button again to return back. 3x longer for a damn comma.

[@SeskaPrints]

@@SmitePlayz1 Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you. I am used to what I have, and I personally enjoy it. Maybe calm down a bit? Also, you tap the numbers key, then the comma and when you tap the space bar for the next word it returns to the alphabet keys. It is a single tap that I have to do every so often, but it makes my phone keyboard look nicer and I’m fine with that.

[@sebseb6020]

@@SmitePlayz1 Avearge Android user when Apple users enjoy

[@christianbryant5617]

I love and prefer the iOS keyboard because it’s more simplistic. The typing experience is slower for myself on Android and faster on iOS..

[@deezpleez3832]

This is really something we iPhone or phone users in general take for granted. Nailed it like always!

[@TrioLOLGamers]

The biggest issue for me is the keyboard itself: every key is not well placed, that's why I use SwiftKey that has a ton of flexibility. Still I miss my old Lumia keyboard, it was majestic, also it had that little knob that is way better than any spacebar for moving and I've heard tons of people saying that the lumia keyboard was superior to every keyboard...

[@ThePthakuria]

This is so frustrating I recently bought an iPhone and typing has been a very bad experience. I can type twice as fast on my android with fewer mistakes. One good thing it has is the cursor movement with the space key which is impressively smooth.

[@AfraidMonsters]

I've used ipods/iphones my entire life; And even with a iPhone 13 for years now(a big phone screen and big phone),I type fast, sure, but literally at least every 5th word or so is one wrong letter placed here, there, etc. It's just impossible to type on iphone without mistakes :( As for the number row, I actually like that it's hidden and you have to press 1 button to get to it. Most times we don't even type out numbers. And if we do, why not the alphabetical version? etc. honestly it'd just be taking up space if they didn't "hide it" behind one button. As for the "fighting the autocorrect" that's so true I can't even with how true it is. YOU DO NOT. KNOW. HOW MANY TIMES I'VE RETYPED ONE WORD OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN CAUSE IT KEPT SWITCHING IT. The battle only ends when I finally click the confusing "x' button on the right side of the correction BEFORE it changes it, by stopping my typing.

[@itskxmi]

Is it just me who can’t use anything other than the Apple keyboard? I tried using customizable keyboards like Facemoji and Google keyboard for months but ended up switching back bc I like it way better

[@ninetoedmike]

I had no choice but to download Gboard. Apple's autocorrect was so cumbersome and consistently wrong that I couldn't continue using it. If I'm using an app that does not allow me to use Gboard, I will likely delete the app entirely.

[@NeonPixels81]

I actually ended up switching to Gboard on my iPhone. Bset of both worlds.

[@TjaVideos]

the predicting words is very slow too. i use Swiftkeyboard on my Galaxy A53, while typing words come up in less than a sec. i finish my sentence in no time without mistakes.

[@bt60613]

My keyboard seems cause more typos daily. Its really bad. Did they even have UX look at rhis??

[@Ben-ok9gi]

Any keyboard on an iPhone is a useless compared to Android. Coming from someone who 2 years ago moved to Apple. Worst mistake ofy digital life.

[@GigiDuruDuru]

Now it all make sense .. I thought I was getting some kind of neurological disorder since I start using Iphone.. so it wasn’t me but Apple destroying their own brand .Can’t wait to get back to android.. it took me a lot of correcting to post this without smashing this pos phone to the ground

[@MeowtronStar]

I'm forced to rely on SwiftKey for this. And frustratingly, Apple restricts 3rd party keyboards in some areas.

[@KoolKenny765]

Ok for sure, but for me as a user of the iPhone. I don't feel like annoying when I type this because this is how I know what I can type. It's just simple.

[@curt356]

I downloaded Gboard and the typing experience is like night and day. Apple got a lot of catching up to do.

[@ghaithsfg0]

I just got my iPhone 12 today and everything is good until now but the keyboard kinda sucks coz it’s hard to switch especially when I was an android user like 6 hours ago

[@donzee2054]

I can’t even type a single sentence properly without making a mistake in an iPhone.