Why The iPhone Keyboard Sucks

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @os2171
    @os2171 Год назад +4084

    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
      @BrainPermaDeD Год назад +58

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

    • @maxonite
      @maxonite Год назад +28

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

    • @jackjackum
      @jackjackum Год назад +36

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

    • @bornapc
      @bornapc Год назад +13

      @@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
      @BrainPermaDeD Год назад +21

      @@bornapc I disabled autocorrect altogether.

  • @inenfmk
    @inenfmk Год назад +2925

    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
      @Muhammed.Yaseen Год назад +47

      LOLOL

    • @RabbitConfirmed
      @RabbitConfirmed Год назад +118

      Apple will introduce a fart as a "revolution"

    • @kevin7649
      @kevin7649 Год назад +53

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

    • @maxonite
      @maxonite Год назад +4

      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
      @MrMattaiusify Год назад +33

      "It works like magic"

  • @heyspookyboogie644
    @heyspookyboogie644 Год назад +1606

    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
      @pilotavery Год назад +113

      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
      @pilotavery Год назад +44

      Google keyboard is the best keyboard hands down.

    • @RowanBird779
      @RowanBird779 Год назад +33

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

    • @RealJohnO
      @RealJohnO Год назад +20

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

    • @adrianphoenix5604
      @adrianphoenix5604 Год назад +4

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

  • @matticolo
    @matticolo Год назад +90

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

    • @donut5718
      @donut5718 Месяц назад +2

      iPhones fail off 2015

  • @MP112791
    @MP112791 Год назад +64

    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.

    • @Losowy333
      @Losowy333 Месяц назад

      So switch! This is that easy!

    • @jesuisunelicorne709
      @jesuisunelicorne709 Месяц назад

      Wdym ? I still use swiftkey with no issues

    • @septilevg6897
      @septilevg6897 29 дней назад

      @@jesuisunelicorne709it has literally no options to customize. Empty app

  • @KlassicCar98
    @KlassicCar98 Год назад +265

    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
      @erikvanstenis Год назад +2

      you can change that

    • @oosha2000
      @oosha2000 Год назад +3

      Why not disable the autocorrection ?

    • @erikvanstenis
      @erikvanstenis Год назад +1

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

    • @sp0tl34k
      @sp0tl34k Год назад +1

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

    • @carolinejohnsonartist5650
      @carolinejohnsonartist5650 Год назад +2

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

  • @SchakOb
    @SchakOb Год назад +703

    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
      @urmumscow3206 Год назад +24

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

    • @luv4nisah
      @luv4nisah Год назад +5

      @@urmumscow3206 LMFAOOO

    • @raheem201231
      @raheem201231 Год назад +3

      An Apple*

    • @Manchesterunited00
      @Manchesterunited00 Год назад +3

      @@urmumscow3206 zawg 😭😭😭😭

    • @obito9078
      @obito9078 Год назад +9

      @@urmumscow3206 he propably wrote it on apple keyboard

  • @TamalCyrus
    @TamalCyrus Год назад +824

    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
      @Miko36110 Год назад +66

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

    • @Metamine0
      @Metamine0 Год назад +48

      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
      @user-me1mv4vy9q Год назад +20

      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
      @kevin7649 Год назад +16

      ​@@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
      @CyanideLucifer Год назад +36

      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

  • @MedicalStudentChannel
    @MedicalStudentChannel Год назад +21

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

  • @yafi6214
    @yafi6214 11 месяцев назад +30

    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
      @AndreaAustoni 8 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @andrewhelbigvoiceover
    @andrewhelbigvoiceover Год назад +54

    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
      @芲 11 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @AahYush
      @AahYush 10 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @Erdeseldw
      @Erdeseldw 10 месяцев назад

      You can swipe on words to correct it btw

    • @kaneru8593
      @kaneru8593 10 месяцев назад

      Can't u download Google keyboard?

    • @yon68
      @yon68 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @alirezaghaffarian9038
    @alirezaghaffarian9038 Год назад +318

    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
      @hairsiluet Год назад +1

      Right… ⌨️📲

    • @sussy001
      @sussy001 Год назад +8

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

    • @szilardladocki5863
      @szilardladocki5863 Год назад +1

      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
      @IOT552 Год назад +1

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

    • @sheet3335
      @sheet3335 Год назад

      true

  • @Bross2029
    @Bross2029 Год назад +556

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

    • @bw2532
      @bw2532 Год назад +4

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

    • @KobrokoHere
      @KobrokoHere Год назад +9

      @@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
      @fytgfun Год назад +1

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

    • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2
      @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Год назад +2

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

    • @BubbaSnipe03
      @BubbaSnipe03 Год назад +1

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

  • @TonyTheYouTuba
    @TonyTheYouTuba Год назад +116

    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
      @jakeyounglol Год назад +3

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

    • @TraktorTarzan
      @TraktorTarzan Год назад +2

      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
      @samvieten_official Год назад +1

      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
      @TonyTheYouTuba Год назад

      @@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
      @georgeemerald4389 11 месяцев назад +3

      Why in the world would you prefer that?

  • @Nightflyer720
    @Nightflyer720 10 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @FloresdorfGaming
    @FloresdorfGaming Год назад +113

    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
      @ItsIcedDonut Год назад +5

      Tbf you can get g board om ios

    • @shranikdua3442
      @shranikdua3442 Год назад +18

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

    • @andrejtb1
      @andrejtb1 Год назад +11

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

    • @ItsIcedDonut
      @ItsIcedDonut Год назад +1

      @@shranikdua3442 Ah right thanks for telling me.

    • @Kevynmorgan
      @Kevynmorgan Год назад +3

      @@ItsIcedDonut SwiftKey is better

  • @joshuanesbit
    @joshuanesbit Год назад +83

    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
      @marioluigi9599 Год назад

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

    • @marioluigi9599
      @marioluigi9599 Год назад +7

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

    • @dmfinpa
      @dmfinpa Год назад +2

      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.

    • @James_Knott
      @James_Knott Месяц назад

      And those Blackberrys were great for pocket dialing! 🙂

  • @stormrider01
    @stormrider01 Год назад +24

    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
      @V100X Год назад

      Maybe pressing the text till the magnifier appears helps a bit

    • @stormrider01
      @stormrider01 Год назад +4

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

    • @Ran-jd8ug
      @Ran-jd8ug 10 месяцев назад +1

      THEN COME BACK TO ANDROID. PROBLEM SOLVED

    • @fourierxfm
      @fourierxfm 4 месяца назад +1

      💯 I hate this aspect of iPhones as well!

  • @iquanyin1
    @iquanyin1 6 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @jeffreysnyder8830
    @jeffreysnyder8830 Год назад +5

    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.”

  • @jeskli11
    @jeskli11 Год назад +86

    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
      @niels1917 Год назад +13

      so just a bit of Android :)

    • @time2livelife
      @time2livelife Год назад +2

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

    • @tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj3429
      @tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj3429 Год назад +22

      SwiftKey is miles ahead of any keyboard.

    • @747simmer4
      @747simmer4 Год назад

      @@time2livelifesame

    • @SanctusBacchus
      @SanctusBacchus Год назад +5

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

  • @o_s-24
    @o_s-24 Год назад +94

    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
      @huzefa69 Год назад +15

      samsung keyboard isnt that great either. Gboard is better

    • @MarcSpctr
      @MarcSpctr Год назад +8

      ​@@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
      @Bronyboiiiii Год назад +11

      @@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
      @NicolastheThird-h6m Год назад +2

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

    • @aadithjkrishna
      @aadithjkrishna Год назад

      ​@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

  • @wesleyp3579
    @wesleyp3579 Год назад +16

    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

  • @bradsmithstudios8881
    @bradsmithstudios8881 6 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @mangostickyrye
    @mangostickyrye Год назад +5

    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 😂

  • @aris1956
    @aris1956 Год назад +19

    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
      @V100X Год назад +2

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

    • @aris1956
      @aris1956 Год назад +2

      ⁠​⁠@@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
      @SmitePlayz1 Год назад +1

      ​@@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
      @V100X Год назад +1

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

    • @Muhammed.Yaseen
      @Muhammed.Yaseen Год назад +2

      Yesss!!! The cursor!

  • @libbeytds
    @libbeytds Год назад +4

    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.

  • @Octofinite
    @Octofinite Год назад +7

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

  • @carolinejohnsonartist5650
    @carolinejohnsonartist5650 11 месяцев назад +8

    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
      @Jader13254 10 месяцев назад +3

      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
      @yon68 10 месяцев назад +2

      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...

  • @TheBrimFactor
    @TheBrimFactor 9 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @trevinodude
    @trevinodude Год назад +7

    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.

  • @Jppen
    @Jppen Год назад +54

    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
      @ybbgraphicdesign Год назад +3

      Thanks!

    • @subsonicdeathmonkey
      @subsonicdeathmonkey Год назад +9

      And a period by double tapping space.

    • @AncTreat5358
      @AncTreat5358 Год назад +1

      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
      @orbitaljellyfish808 Год назад

      Thanks👏👏

    • @3lementa1
      @3lementa1 Год назад

      Thanks for this advice!

  • @MCHLvisual
    @MCHLvisual Год назад +42

    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.

    • @vexun11
      @vexun11 Год назад +1

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

    • @sas408
      @sas408 Год назад

      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
      @dandavidson4717 Год назад

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

  • @DripTiles
    @DripTiles Год назад

    As an iphone user myself with the iphone 14 pro Max I have been noticing the keyboard getting worse, it does make mistakes for you that you didn't mean to type, often the iphone will learn your typing habits which gets very annoying til you have to reset keyboard settings. Apple really needs to fix this serious issue.

  • @LAZZAMCPE
    @LAZZAMCPE 11 месяцев назад +1

    Miss using 3D Touch with keyboard

  • @DavyoInVegas
    @DavyoInVegas Год назад +147

    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
      @keijijohnson9754 Год назад +8

      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
      @kevin7649 Год назад +7

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

    • @SimonBauer7
      @SimonBauer7 Год назад +4

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

    • @kdt110
      @kdt110 Год назад +1

      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
      @rodhashemi Год назад

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

  • @Riktooo
    @Riktooo Год назад +15

    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 .

    • @mobeezy87
      @mobeezy87 Год назад +1

      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
      @Riktooo Год назад

      @@mobeezy87 it really is a shame
      But overall it’s still a very good and nice device to own so “No regrets”

  • @jonathancineus6424
    @jonathancineus6424 Год назад +6

    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. 😤 😡 😠

  • @TheReal_Baller
    @TheReal_Baller Месяц назад +1

    I'm an android user, but I still know how to use an iPhone efficiently, since some of my friends have iPhones, and also my cousin. I do actually feel comfortable when using the keyboard but what upsets me is the fact that, the periods are within the numbers section, and they don't give you the option to hold down a letter to get a specific period. Also, the fact that when you press a period it instantly goes back the letters, while Samsung on the other hand, when you press a period (though not all) it stays in that section. And when that happens, I start to type slower.

  • @Cyril376444
    @Cyril376444 Год назад +4

    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.

  • @blackfalcon53
    @blackfalcon53 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @Estrius
    @Estrius Год назад +10

    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
      @jennelynabella2241 Год назад +3

      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.

    • @sleepyy1x
      @sleepyy1x Год назад

      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
      @kimns5301 Год назад

      ​@@sleepyy1xAnd 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

  • @DHawkBeats
    @DHawkBeats Год назад

    I noticed autocorrect has been so bad since over a year, probably longer thank you for confirming my struggle

  • @TjaVideos
    @TjaVideos Год назад +1

    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.

  • @djp1234
    @djp1234 Год назад +4

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

  • @NoChillMan
    @NoChillMan Год назад +4

    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
      @Kevynmorgan Год назад

      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
      @barsadal1738 Год назад

      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.

  • @mirzarizwanbaig9449
    @mirzarizwanbaig9449 Год назад +17

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

    • @sactopyrshep
      @sactopyrshep Год назад

      How can I get this?

    • @BongManCSGO
      @BongManCSGO Год назад

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

    • @bluebirdsigma
      @bluebirdsigma Год назад +1

      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
      @ProCodeSoftware Год назад +1

      It's discontinued

    • @evilj
      @evilj Год назад +4

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

  • @iquanyin1
    @iquanyin1 6 месяцев назад +1

    one of the things i hate most is when it decides to just randomly add or delete a letter on a word. for no reason at all! it’s insane.

    • @iquanyin1
      @iquanyin1 6 месяцев назад +1

      on the end of a worse. like i’ll type “horse” and it changes to “hors” or i’ll type “show” and it changes to “sho.” it’s so weird.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 Год назад +2

    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!

  • @uzzzzy
    @uzzzzy Год назад +9

    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
      @braedonmorrissey7548 Год назад

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

    • @LinoSey
      @LinoSey Год назад +1

      Yeah you can actually

    • @aabderrahmane
      @aabderrahmane Год назад +2

      @@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
      @IceBlueLugia Год назад +1

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

  • @TheOddLia
    @TheOddLia Год назад +4

    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.

  • @flopo4
    @flopo4 Год назад +14

    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
      @jamesjohnXII Год назад

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

    • @flopo4
      @flopo4 Год назад

      @@jamesjohnXII count by yourself :D

  • @d.b.cooper1
    @d.b.cooper1 5 месяцев назад +1

    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!

  • @altoidyoda
    @altoidyoda Год назад +1

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

  • @SeskaPrints
    @SeskaPrints Год назад +6

    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
      @aykhan.g Год назад

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

  • @SaltyInterlocutor
    @SaltyInterlocutor Год назад +6

    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).

  • @209kranthi
    @209kranthi Год назад +5

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

    • @born2enjoy102
      @born2enjoy102 Год назад

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

    • @zakaryan2004
      @zakaryan2004 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @KoolKenny765
    @KoolKenny765 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @trevorbrad
    @trevorbrad Месяц назад +1

    As an iPhone user for 10+ years, I’ve never found this to be an issue

    • @franciscodiaz5778
      @franciscodiaz5778 14 секунд назад

      Well, or you're a rare exception, or you're a fan boy. That simple.

  • @aepeessla
    @aepeessla Год назад +3

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

  • @Raff890
    @Raff890 Год назад +4

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

    • @thisis_mudchute
      @thisis_mudchute Год назад

      sadly i dont have that feature on iPad :(

    • @ironspider6851
      @ironspider6851 Год назад

      @@thisis_mudchute 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**

    • @thisis_mudchute
      @thisis_mudchute Год назад

      i dont like the small text

    • @thisis_mudchute
      @thisis_mudchute Год назад

      @@ironspider6851 small keyboard*

    • @edd9581
      @edd9581 Год назад

      at least in spanish i feel that is not very precise

  • @genXcripple
    @genXcripple 10 месяцев назад +47

    i hate my iphone keyboard

    • @Sam25055
      @Sam25055 8 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @AltF-gt2fy
      @AltF-gt2fy 8 месяцев назад +2

      Everybody does 😔

    • @AleksGawel
      @AleksGawel 7 месяцев назад +1

      What if you don't have android

    • @hatedragonz
      @hatedragonz 5 месяцев назад

      You know you can change the default keyboard to gboard.

  • @ThePthakuria
    @ThePthakuria Год назад +1

    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.

  • @donzee2054
    @donzee2054 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @ryanbotha7256
    @ryanbotha7256 Год назад +10

    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
      @nobodycares607 Год назад

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

    • @abdulbasit0123
      @abdulbasit0123 Год назад +1

      true isheep

    • @ybbgraphicdesign
      @ybbgraphicdesign Год назад

      And what about the clipboard??

    • @imanalius7691
      @imanalius7691 Год назад

      Not working for me

    • @ryanbotha7256
      @ryanbotha7256 Год назад

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

  • @birklauritzen8563
    @birklauritzen8563 Год назад +7

    Well I guess Apple saw the video lmao

  • @ExploringNew1
    @ExploringNew1 10 месяцев назад

    It's all fun and games until your keyboard thinks luck should be a different word when messaging with your mom

  • @JayzsMr
    @JayzsMr 10 месяцев назад +1

    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

  • @mo.na.x
    @mo.na.x Год назад +7

    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

  • @GonzaJulii96
    @GonzaJulii96 Год назад +8

    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
      @time2livelife Год назад +2

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

  • @TrioLOLGamers
    @TrioLOLGamers 10 месяцев назад +1

    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...

  • @curt356
    @curt356 8 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @RzariRzari
    @RzariRzari Год назад +6

    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

  • @deezpleez3832
    @deezpleez3832 Год назад +10

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

  • @PaulMaglaya
    @PaulMaglaya Год назад +6

    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"). 👍👌🇵🇭🇺🇸

  • @GamerJP30
    @GamerJP30 Год назад

    2:24 Reminds Me of that Ryan Higa SpongeBob Parody 😂

  • @awleao
    @awleao Год назад

    First video where a flaw is exposed as a flaw instead of trying to sell as a feature. I like it!

  • @y4nns
    @y4nns Год назад +5

    Honestly, I prefer the apple keyboard

  • @ArsenicBlade7
    @ArsenicBlade7 Год назад +1

    OMG THANK YOU I AM NOT ALONE LIKE I SWITCHED FROM ANDROID RECENTLY AND IM LITERALLY STRUGGLING SOO MUCH TYPING IN IPHONE

  • @ghaithsfg0
    @ghaithsfg0 10 месяцев назад +1

    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

  • @AfraidMonsters
    @AfraidMonsters Год назад +1

    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.

  • @zeyy84
    @zeyy84 Год назад +1

    This is why I download a keyboard app after switching to Apple

  • @ekn_38
    @ekn_38 Год назад

    I use an iPhone since 2017, switching from Android and it still is terrible for me to write a text. iOS 17 was the worst update ever not just for the battery but for the even worse keyboard experience. I use the German keyboard to type in English texts which used to be no problem beforehand but now the autocorrect makes every second word start with a big letter and randomly corrects correct words into Turkish too (which I also have as a second keyboard)

  • @mäffbeats
    @mäffbeats Год назад

    i have been using microsoft swiftkey as a keyboard on my iphone xr for the last 5 years. after upgrading to 15 pro max this year, i wanted to try out the OG apple keyboard as everyone of my friends always asked what my strange keyboard was about and why i didnt just use the ios keyboard. i figured, with the switch of the phone i will give this thing a try since i thought its just something that i need to get used to. but i always felt i had to re-type things absurdly often. it is slow and not learning my type of texting at all. swift key was able to throw in words in my slang after a week using it. iphone keyboard still needs like 4 corrections on a word just because its slang
    and it is very slow navigating to that word to correct it
    it is so damn annoying

  • @Han_Solo6712
    @Han_Solo6712 Год назад +1

    As someone who’s actually used to it, I can type faster here than on android.

  • @joshua2776
    @joshua2776 Год назад +1

    you missed the biggest issue which is that you can’t change the keyboard size unlike gboard on android. if you have big hands then you’re screwed.

  • @dwad0102
    @dwad0102 Год назад +1

    A period button isn’t needed because double tapping the space bar. Tap and hold 123 you can swipe to a comma and lift the finger to put one in.

    • @DiFF7Skyns
      @DiFF7Skyns 9 месяцев назад

      "double tapping the space bar" much less convenient.
      "Tap and hold 123" can you adjust the long-press duration?

  • @prplt
    @prplt Год назад

    I've always found it very weird how people still type on smartphones 🤯 I almost exclusively use the swiping method on Gboard where you just draw a line on the keyboard and it gives you the word 😂

  • @leemori90
    @leemori90 4 месяца назад

    0:56 Man, couldn’t have explained it better! Everytime i search or text, i get the period between 2 words that’s suppsoed to be the same sentence. Sometimes, for example a 6 word sentence, I’ll look back and have a period between each word, so often so that ive chucked my phone out of frustration. I wondered why my brain couldn’t adapt to the keyboard spacing or thought I had a nerve condition of some sort. Even this comment, I.must.have screwed.up.good. 5-6.times

  • @ElectricOrange
    @ElectricOrange Год назад

    The multi language is super annoying the amount of times my keyboard has switched to french and then I manually have to click the back button...

  • @epimolophant
    @epimolophant Год назад

    The word suggestion changing a split second before you type it is sooo annoying.
    Also, sometimes it suggests grammatically incorrent things in Brazilian Portuguese, such as "à todos".

  • @ninetoedmike
    @ninetoedmike Год назад +1

    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.

  • @natbarmore
    @natbarmore Год назад

    1:52 I almost never use the predictive text-for anything less than about 15 characters, I can type it faster than the prediction engine can figure it out and then me notice that it has figured it out and then tell my fingers to stop typing the word and instead hit the space bar. But last time I checked (which was like 3-4 major versions of iOS ago), if you turned predictive text off that also disabled autocorrect. Which, for all my complaints, is still better than no-autocorrect. But it’s been long enough I should check again.
    As for numbers and period/comma: the two spaces=period pretty much fixes that part, so if they were gonna add a couple more keys, it should be comma, question mark, slash, hyphen/en-dash/em-dash, and semicolon, in that priority order.
    But the thing that most often annoys _me_ on iPhone keyboard is that you can’t turn smart quotes on without also turning on smart dashes. It’s really, really easy to type an en dash or em dash, so smart dashes are unnecessary, and when they’re on I can’t type multiple hyphens, which is really frustrating. Though far _more_ frustrating on macOS and iPadOS, because of how I use them.

  • @ChristiRich
    @ChristiRich Год назад +1

    I guess this is the result of not having Steve Jobs yelling at Apple engineers.

  • @gblargg
    @gblargg Год назад

    1:38 I encounter this garbage in search boxes on multiple operating systems. Quickly type a few characters and hit enter. The search tries to update as I type, but when I hit enter it uses whatever it found when it last searched, which might not have included everything I typed. So I have to type what I want, then wait a second to be sure the search results actually have been updated with that. The fix is so simple, just do a search on everything I typed, then process the enter.

  • @Trident_2
    @Trident_2 Год назад

    Also , slide to write ( they call it quickpath in Apple ) STILL does not support some languages ( like Greek in my case ) , while this technology has been around for 10 years! So, I switched to Google keyboard.And I do it the APPLE WAY , meaning they won't let you use it in some cases. For example , when you reply to a message directly in lockscreen , or when you insert a password ...etc.

  • @DisathJayasingheVideography
    @DisathJayasingheVideography Год назад +1

    That is the exact reason that I turned off Auto-Correction feature 😥😥

  • @xndrxwsxnclxxr1599
    @xndrxwsxnclxxr1599 Год назад

    My friend, you simply scratched the surface with this video, there is SOOOO much more to say. Don't even get me started on swipe text

  • @567legodude
    @567legodude Год назад

    In my experience, if you want to type an "incorrect" word, you have to click the quoted version in the predictive text area. Otherwise, you have to do the delete and re-type thing three times before it will finally give up and stop trying to replace the word.

  • @wwilmliam
    @wwilmliam Год назад

    Thank you for addressing this. It feels good to know someone else realizes this. Why is the next question.