>>walter+(OP)
Love the sick burn at the end:

>Who knows? Maybe they're just trying to simulate the butterfly keyboard in software.

Apple truly has some incredibly incompetent people working for it, obsessively focused on cosmetic style instead of substance and usability.

Alan Dye voluntarily leaving certainly won't solve the root problem that they didn't fire him years ago.

Bad Dye Job:

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Gruber: Apple employees ‘giddy’ about Alan Dye’s departure:

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/gruber-apple-employees-giddy-...

>>walter+(OP)
35m ago edit: Apple uses many predictive systems for typing. My sentiment in pointing out just slide to type might be misguided as it does not exist in a vacuum. I'd love to see these tests redone with slide to type disabled. I'm leaving the original comment below for reference.

Slide to type. This "issue" is at most 6 years old for iOS users.

Turn off slide to type if you do not use it. Slide to type does key resizing logic. This is the direct cause of this issue. Please upvote this comment for visibility.

Please reply if you think I'm wrong. I see this get posted frequently enough I'm actually losing it.

Please refer to https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?si=XD7AKa8gTl85_rJ6&t=72 (timestamp 1:12) to see that slide to type is enabled.

>>walter+(OP)
It's Not Just You https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

>>walter+(OP)
Another long running one is duplicateduplicate words: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/mpo20r/iphone_will_occ... .. been happening for me for years and still does from time to time, but it's only once every few days so I just let it bebe.

>>a012+y8
If you're OK with a ridiculously tall phone: https://www.clicks.tech/

>>loloqu+Cw
I'm in the same boat. This is bewildering to me, because I recall Apple making a joke about (it being fixed) in this in the 2023 developer conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0u0aNyzz8

>>jasonj+mh
Wanted to read more about this. Source of the text seems to be a pop-up in iOS if I understand it correctly: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8519296?sortBy=rank

>>walter+(OP)
I have a lot of trouble texting, independent of the issues here. I'm just clumsy and can't seem to do it in any productive way.

I'm working on this keyboard substitute with larger keys and split up keyboards: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icantext/id6748927092. Give it a try if you want.

>>Aachen+YD
Apple severely limits third-party keyboards, see https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1l2gg3r/thirdparty_ios...

>>suppor+EK
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fMmlyLdpBXM

>>jshier+6N
Some consumers clearly do care, but mega-corporations aren't content with making a profit - they will kill profitable products because they're not profitable enough.

(Apparently the 12 and 13 mini had about 5% of iPhone market share in the year they were released [0]. Does that mean they were profitable for Apple? I don't know, but given how many phones Apple sells, I believe that even 5% iPhone market share would be profitable)

0. https://www.rickyspears.com/tech/the-rise-and-fall-of-apples...

Still using my 12 Mini on iOS 18 - I won't go without a fight.

>>vel0ci+zz
Its an informal word, and it does not belong in a device used for professional communications.

"Wanna is used in written English to represent the words `want to' when they are pronounced informally. I wanna be married to you. Do you wanna be married to me? "

Pronounced - not written.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/wann...

>>takino+Xx1
>If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself.

your comment reminds me of this comic from the 2000s that became a bit of a meme back in the day

swap out "comic sans" with "aggressive lookbehind correction" and it'd fit perfectly ;-)

https://www.achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

>>alwa+pB
They have a Jelly Max https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max and this looks too good to be true. I am sure one catch would be that it's not sold in my geography but still. Does it have at least few years of OS update support and more than few years of security updates?

>>walter+(OP)
Shameless plug, but back in 2014 trying to play with swift I made Type Nine, and I'm still using it to this day[1]

I also did a few other experiments that I unfortunately haven't had time to explore further[2]

[1] https://www.typenineapp.com

[2] https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing-experienc...

>>gatnoo+Nf2
I was a gboard user on iOS for years but it progressively got so inexplicably unusably slow I gave up.

Maybe your comment means it's got back to being usable.

Edit: https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1...

No updates in 3 years? And search results complaining about gboard on iOS 26? Doesn't sound promising.

>>roboca+MA2
Could it be slide to type issue as pointed in another comment: >>46233219 ? Disabling it might help?