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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by jonplackett on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:14AM (#37542349)
Totally agree.

And I’d like to add that the editing experience is also dire and getting worse.

Just trying to put the cursor where I want it to fix an error earlier in the sentence in ios17 is a massive pain in the ass.

You tap somewhere and it continually selects entire words - I just want to put the cursor there dammit!

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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by texuf on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:16AM (#37542361)
Press and hold the space bar to place the cursor exactly where you want it. It took me way too long to learn this.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by brrwind on Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:05AM (#37543011)
Thank you for mentioning this! I thought Apple had eliminated this editing mode when they got rid of Force Touch. So happy to learn that it’s still available but a little frustrated I’m only learning this now.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by jamiek88 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:16AM (#37542364)
If you hold down ‘space’ the cursor becomes Freeform. Works much better.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by artursapek on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:34AM (#37543912)
Yeah I noticed this starting a year or two ago, it drives me crazy

Also, getting the copy/paste menu to show takes a very long time

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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by jonplackett on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:54AM (#37545083)
Yeah there’s just so much delay. Editing/writing text is just plain tedious.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by artursapek on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:05PM (#37548308)
Agreed!
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