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Let's cut to the chase, the iOS keyboard sucks.
I grew up typing on touchscreens, I'm pretty decent at it. But I'm a sub-par speller so I rely on auto-correct more than I'd like to admit.
Around iOS 17 (Sept. 2023) Apple updated their autocorrect to use a transformer model which should've been awesome and brought it closer to Gboard (Gboard is a privacy terror but honestly, worth it).
What it actually did/failed to improve is make your phone keyboard:
- Suck at suggesting accurate corrections to misspelled words
- "Correct" misspelled words with an even worse misspelling
- "Correct" your correctly spelled word with an incorrectly spelled word
The less you rely on auto-correct the less you'd notice these things over the past few years.
But then came the real kicker: the travesty that is the iOS 26 keyboard.
Not only does your auto-correct suck, but your actual, literal, just basic typing experience absolutely SUCKS!
While you're tapping away you might find you're making a lot more typos than usual. That's because your iPhone is straight up registering the correct tap, but outputting the wrong letter.
A side note: maybe I'm the only psychopath who types long-form into Apple Notes/iMessage on my phone, but to anyone else out there who has written a 1000+ word document on an iPhone (I'm setting a real low bar for long form here), you might find your $1000 piece of hardware capable of running a AAA game struggling to keep up. To the point that you can write an entire sentence and just sit there and wait for it to catch up.
For every sentence.
Until you open a new note or give up and move to your computer like a normal person.
Apple, you have many flaws. And we live in a world with terrible, horrible things happening every day and it all gets streamed directly into our psyches whether we want it to or not.
I get that the iPhone keyboard sucking isn't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
But you're not Microsoft. You're better than this. Get some help.
Your keyboard on your flagship product has been broken for years.
