Among them is a preference to turn off the iPhone's text auto-correction. A request for this functionality was recently the subject of an online petition that has since received over 20,000 signatures.
It'd be nice if you could do this by application. The only place auto-correct has been a PTA for me is text messaging. I'll type something, send it, only to realize it'd been autocorrected into gibberish.
Someone who's typing in Finnish, for example, would definitely want to turn the thing off. But, on the other hand, I don't want to go to the settings menu each time I change the language I type in.
Good reason. I wasn't thinking of other languages.
I would like the ability to edit the dictionary it uses for more or less the same reason. I use English instead of American and there seems no way to tell the auto-correct that most of it's suggested spellings are actually incorrect. (in terms of English as opposed to American)
Even though I have the English keyboard enabled and the American keyboard disabled, it still insists on spelling things like civilisation, colour, etc. in the American variant.
We really need a learn function for the dictionary. Every time I type my name it tries to correct it. But I don't want to turn off auto correct. Unless I type slowly I need auto correct for every two or three words as I find it very difficult to use the keyboard accurately. I personally don't wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard but I can totally see why that would be a deal breaker for many, especially those who do heavy messaging.
I would much rather have google transit and walking added to the gmaps app than streetview.
Streetview is a cool whiz bang feature but google transit support is actually a critical mobile app. Also, gmaps for other platforms, BB and Palm, have supported it for a while.
I really could use gTransit support. Streetview is just another thing to play with.
Have to disagree on that. I'm really tired of the autocorrect and a number of my co-workers feel the same. I jailbroke my phone just for this reason...
Agree. Auto-correct is a nightmare.
Safari also needs an easier way to skip up or down to the end of the web page. Having to flick my finger 30 times to get to the top of a list is not a good solution.
Safari also needs an easier way to skip up or down to the end of the web page. Having to flick my finger 30 times to get to the top of a list is not a good solution.
Going down is a pain, but going up can be done instantly by touching the menu bar at the top.
There's so much to like AND dislike about the software that it keeps everyone constantly engaged with Apple trying to tell them into a customer-centric way to do things, not just an Apple/Steve Jobs way to do things.
Perfect reason: The iPhone constantly tries to auto-correct words that you intend to type, which are spelled correctly, but the iPhone doesn't know that and drops in the word that it wants because if you continue to type, like most peope do, the iPhone drops in its own words unless you catch it and tap the X. For example, tried to type the word "Yummy" and the iPhone auto corrected with "Tummy"
If you type well, typing will go much faster without having to stop to dismiss the iPhones incorrect suggestions and auto-fill.
If the option is added, then you can leave it on.
The spell check functionality is handy, but it's implementation is flawed. It doesn't make sense that pressing "space" accepts the correction while tapping the correction dismisses it. That's counterintuitive and surprising for a Apple device. Instead, you should have to tap the correction to accept it. when you are typing a sentence, it is natural to hit "space" between words and you end up accepting corrections before you know they were offered.
The spell check functionality is handy, but it's implementation is flawed. It doesn't make sense that pressing "space" accepts the correction while tapping the correction dismisses it. That's counterintuitive and surprising for a Apple device. Instead, you should have to tap the correction to accept it. when you are typing a sentence, it is natural to hit "space" between words and you end up accepting corrections before you know they were offered.
It is opposite from what one expects, but the reasoning for the way Apple implemented it makes sense. And I'm sure they thought long and hard about which is the best overall method for fast typing. If only takes a few times before you learn the method.
An option to switch between the two methods in the Settings would allow for these granule control but I doubt Apple will do that when other, more necessary settings aren't available.
The scrolling is a pain - why can't the little scroll bar work like the alphabet one in contacts/iPod?
Learn would be really nice, as would 'learn NOT to correct' - for New Zealand websites and such, it always corrects my .nz to .ms, which is kind of annoying.
I would like my iphone to be able to act as a voip-phone on my wifi at home. Plain technically it is possible, but one would need some ingenious background push messaging to let my voip-modem tell my iphone to wake up and sound the alarms when someone calls me.
Apple would really have to open up the SDK on background processing, or write it themselves.
I also vote for cut&paste, syncing the colours of iCal, no more safari-crashes and a stable mail-fetching which really checks every 15 minutes.
p.s. I find Auto-correct 'livible' in the Netherlands. Sometimes would be nice, if it would automatically accept the thing 'you type', in stead of the suggestion. But in just as may cases it is handy to know the right word will show up after pressing space, ignoring the typo made two characters ago.
I would like my iphone to be able to act as a voip-phone on my wifi at home. Plain technically it is possible, but one would need some ingenious background push messaging to let my voip-modem tell my iphone to wake up and sound the alarms when someone calls me.
Apple would really have to open up the SDK on background processing, or write it themselves.
I also vote for cut&paste, syncing the colours of iCal, no more safari-crashes and a stable mail-fetching which really checks every 15 minutes.
p.s. I find Auto-correct 'livible' in the Netherlands. Sometimes would be nice, if it would automatically accept the thing 'you type', in stead of the suggestion. But in just as may cases it is handy to know the right word will show up after pressing space, ignoring the typo made two characters ago.
At least one other posting mentioned the digital compass and asked if the iPhone had one. I've not read anywhere that it does, which means that the G1 will still have a leg up on the iPhone when it comes to StreetView. With the G1, a user can turn in place and the StreetView should pan with him/her. With the iPhone, since it only relies on GPS, it won't pan until the user moves straight forward in a different direction. It won't pan simply by turning around since GPS only measures position, not orientation.
On a different note, for all you folks complaining about the lack of copy/paste on the iPhone, I'm honestly at a loss for how you'd implement this. You fingers are not a stylus so how could you be sure you're grabbing the right words to copy/paste? Yes, it would be a cool feature, but I'm not sure how practical it would be without a stylus. I expect this is what's taking them all so long to figure out.
On a different note, for all you folks complaining about the lack of copy/paste on the iPhone, I'm honestly at a loss for how you'd implement this. You fingers are not a stylus so how could you be sure you're grabbing the right words to copy/paste? Yes, it would be a cool feature, but I'm not sure how practical it would be without a stylus. I expect this is what's taking them all so long to figure out.
The developer who brought us Copy and Paste with the App Store app MagicPad has a great idea for including it systemwide. What is good about the video is that the developer understand the issues Apple would have to face to implement it.
I'm a fan of the auto-correct feature, though I agree it could use some modification. Namely, it should learn custom spellings even more readily and have a user-editable dictionary. Is there any reason it couldn't sync with the user dictionary on a Mac or PC (possibly with iWork or MS Office)? It should also be region/language specific (a problem that does not affect me, nor most of us here in the USA) to better accommodate users outside America.
I disagree that the auto-correct implementation is flawed however. To my experience (and I consider myself a relatively fast and accurate typist with the iPhone's virtual keyboard), I tend to accept more auto-correct suggestions than I reject. When my thumbs are having an off day, the auto-correct usually "knows" what I mean pretty reliably, and I find it faster and more intuitive to tap the space bar (passively accepting the correction) and continue typing as opposed to having to tap the suggestion (an additional tap to actively accept it should Apple reverse the current method) and then continue typing.
I want a feature where the phone remembers where you are and switches off 3G where it knows 3G is weak, then on where it's known to be strong, instead of just ramping the signal all the time. Saves battery when there's no hope.
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What about to-do list and notes synced with Mail? Those features would be real good news
Among them is a preference to turn off the iPhone's text auto-correction. A request for this functionality was recently the subject of an online petition that has since received over 20,000 signatures.
It'd be nice if you could do this by application. The only place auto-correct has been a PTA for me is text messaging. I'll type something, send it, only to realize it'd been autocorrected into gibberish.
Someone who's typing in Finnish, for example, would definitely want to turn the thing off. But, on the other hand, I don't want to go to the settings menu each time I change the language I type in.
Good reason.
I would like the ability to edit the dictionary it uses for more or less the same reason. I use English instead of American and there seems no way to tell the auto-correct that most of it's suggested spellings are actually incorrect. (in terms of English as opposed to American)
Even though I have the English keyboard enabled and the American keyboard disabled, it still insists on spelling things like civilisation, colour, etc. in the American variant.
And yes, we need copy/paste!
We really need a learn function for the dictionary. Every time I type my name it tries to correct it.
Yes, something's amiss. It ought to have learned your name by now.
Streetview is a cool whiz bang feature but google transit support is actually a critical mobile app. Also, gmaps for other platforms, BB and Palm, have supported it for a while.
I really could use gTransit support. Streetview is just another thing to play with.
Have to disagree on that. I'm really tired of the autocorrect and a number of my co-workers feel the same. I jailbroke my phone just for this reason...
Agree. Auto-correct is a nightmare.
Safari also needs an easier way to skip up or down to the end of the web page. Having to flick my finger 30 times to get to the top of a list is not a good solution.
Agree. Auto-correct is a nightmare.
Safari also needs an easier way to skip up or down to the end of the web page. Having to flick my finger 30 times to get to the top of a list is not a good solution.
Going down is a pain, but going up can be done instantly by touching the menu bar at the top.
Going down is a pain, but going up can be done instantly by touching the menu bar at the top.
I'll have to try that. Thanks.
Perfect reason: The iPhone constantly tries to auto-correct words that you intend to type, which are spelled correctly, but the iPhone doesn't know that and drops in the word that it wants because if you continue to type, like most peope do, the iPhone drops in its own words unless you catch it and tap the X. For example, tried to type the word "Yummy" and the iPhone auto corrected with "Tummy"
If you type well, typing will go much faster without having to stop to dismiss the iPhones incorrect suggestions and auto-fill.
If the option is added, then you can leave it on.
The spell check functionality is handy, but it's implementation is flawed. It doesn't make sense that pressing "space" accepts the correction while tapping the correction dismisses it. That's counterintuitive and surprising for a Apple device. Instead, you should have to tap the correction to accept it. when you are typing a sentence, it is natural to hit "space" between words and you end up accepting corrections before you know they were offered.
The spell check functionality is handy, but it's implementation is flawed. It doesn't make sense that pressing "space" accepts the correction while tapping the correction dismisses it. That's counterintuitive and surprising for a Apple device. Instead, you should have to tap the correction to accept it. when you are typing a sentence, it is natural to hit "space" between words and you end up accepting corrections before you know they were offered.
It is opposite from what one expects, but the reasoning for the way Apple implemented it makes sense. And I'm sure they thought long and hard about which is the best overall method for fast typing. If only takes a few times before you learn the method.
An option to switch between the two methods in the Settings would allow for these granule control but I doubt Apple will do that when other, more necessary settings aren't available.
Learn would be really nice, as would 'learn NOT to correct' - for New Zealand websites and such, it always corrects my .nz to .ms, which is kind of annoying.
Apple would really have to open up the SDK on background processing, or write it themselves.
I also vote for cut&paste, syncing the colours of iCal, no more safari-crashes and a stable mail-fetching which really checks every 15 minutes.
p.s. I find Auto-correct 'livible' in the Netherlands. Sometimes would be nice, if it would automatically accept the thing 'you type', in stead of the suggestion. But in just as may cases it is handy to know the right word will show up after pressing space, ignoring the typo made two characters ago.
I would like my iphone to be able to act as a voip-phone on my wifi at home. Plain technically it is possible, but one would need some ingenious background push messaging to let my voip-modem tell my iphone to wake up and sound the alarms when someone calls me.
Apple would really have to open up the SDK on background processing, or write it themselves.
I also vote for cut&paste, syncing the colours of iCal, no more safari-crashes and a stable mail-fetching which really checks every 15 minutes.
p.s. I find Auto-correct 'livible' in the Netherlands. Sometimes would be nice, if it would automatically accept the thing 'you type', in stead of the suggestion. But in just as may cases it is handy to know the right word will show up after pressing space, ignoring the typo made two characters ago.
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On a different note, for all you folks complaining about the lack of copy/paste on the iPhone, I'm honestly at a loss for how you'd implement this. You fingers are not a stylus so how could you be sure you're grabbing the right words to copy/paste? Yes, it would be a cool feature, but I'm not sure how practical it would be without a stylus. I expect this is what's taking them all so long to figure out.
On a different note, for all you folks complaining about the lack of copy/paste on the iPhone, I'm honestly at a loss for how you'd implement this. You fingers are not a stylus so how could you be sure you're grabbing the right words to copy/paste? Yes, it would be a cool feature, but I'm not sure how practical it would be without a stylus. I expect this is what's taking them all so long to figure out.
The developer who brought us Copy and Paste with the App Store app MagicPad has a great idea for including it systemwide. What is good about the video is that the developer understand the issues Apple would have to face to implement it.
I disagree that the auto-correct implementation is flawed however. To my experience (and I consider myself a relatively fast and accurate typist with the iPhone's virtual keyboard), I tend to accept more auto-correct suggestions than I reject. When my thumbs are having an off day, the auto-correct usually "knows" what I mean pretty reliably, and I find it faster and more intuitive to tap the space bar (passively accepting the correction) and continue typing as opposed to having to tap the suggestion (an additional tap to actively accept it should Apple reverse the current method) and then continue typing.
I'll have to try that. Thanks.
Keep up Spam will you?
Yeah, you tap the status bar to "go to top". Works in Safari, Mail and practically all 3rd party apps.
My suggestion for Apple would be to add a similar system-wide feature so users can double-tab the status bar to "go to bottom".