Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone

Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by Someone1234 on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:05PM (#47004986)

Exactly! The fact that this has 300+ votes and is on HN's front page (and is just CONSTANTLY brought up on Reddit), should really tell you how fed up people are with the iOS keyboard experience.

I legit feel like Apple should actually make a public statement like "we hear you, we're working on it!" because it is actually bad PR at this point.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by eptcyka on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:48PM (#47006210)

I feel like the people who could move the needle don’t actually type on their iPhones, they pay someone to do that.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by LanceH on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:57PM (#47006327)

Apple is allergic to admitting anything. They go straight from "there is no problem" to "this update brings improvements".

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by recursive on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:13PM (#47006516)

This new keyboard is revolutionary. It's not just an improvement in the way you will type. It's an entirely new way of expressing yourself.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by alterom on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:58PM (#47007743)

This new keyboard is revolutionary. It's not just an improvement in the way you will type — it's an entirely new way of expressing yourself.

Works better with an em-dash to make it feel more like today's default ChatGPT style.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by tormeh on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:01PM (#47010744)

Do robots wear turtlenecks?

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by alterom on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:31PM (#47018078)

Dunno, but they surely are weighted a lot to sound like some people who do.

Perhaps it's just a natural case of convergent evolution when the fitness function is bullshit at scale.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by eddieroger on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:29PM (#47006696)

Its presence on Hacker News and Reddit tells you that the folks who use Hacker News and Reddit are fed up with the keyboard. Most people don't care. Tech nerds do, and that's not nothing, but it's not necessarily a majority either. No one I know outside of tech brings up the keyboard to me, ever.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by bornfreddy on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:51PM (#47006937)

Once you lose tech nerds, the battle is lost. Other users always follow them.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by echoangle on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:33PM (#47008147)

By that logic, Linux should be the most popular desktop operating system. But even most tech nerds realize that their needs are different from regular users and recommend stuff to them they wouldn’t use.

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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by array_key_first on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:45PM (#47008861)

Everyone cares, most people can't express it because they're not techies and don't know what's going on. But the keyboard is straight up buggy. Everyone is just working around it.

That's just how software works. People also care that the windows taskbar just kills itself sometimes. But they feel powerless, stupid even, so they just work around it every day forever and never say anything.

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