I use two languages when using my phone: Hungarian and English. In iOS, you have to add both keyboards separately and switch between them when switching languages. Of course I always forget to do this and type half my sentence on the wrong keyboard and it's incredibly annoying as the autocorrect fights me.
Another issue is swipe to type. I really like this feature but it only works in English, not Hungarian, for some reason. So I have to keep remembering that I can only use it in one language and not the other.
The third issue is punctuation. All 3rd party keyboards have a dedicated button that you can press and hold for ! ? . , etc... iOS doesn't have this, you have to do it in two steps. So typing one question mark requires you to press the punctuation button, then the question mark, then press the punctuation button again to exit this mode. On other keyboards it's one press, drag, and then release.
iOS also has a very poor autocorrect in Hungarian, that corrects words that are already correct. For example, if I type "run" it might correct it to "running". Or if I type "black" it might correct it to "blacksmith". Also, if you type a word that only has one mistake, it might completely change the word. So for example if you type something like "congratukations" it might correct it to something absolutely insane like "constitutionalities" instead of just fixing the obvious tiny mistake.
So why not use 3rd party keyboards that all offer these features? Because they keep freezing and bugging out. I've tried Swiftkey, Swipe and Gboard, and they all have the same issue: about one time out of 5, when you start typing, they just don't respond. You have to quit the app, relaunch it, and find your way back to where you were and try again. Doing this 10 times a day is not a solution.
So what can you do? When the iPhone came out in 2007 everyone complained about autocorrect. It's nearly 2022 and there still isn't a convenient way to type on an iPhone. Why can't it just work?
Another issue is swipe to type. I really like this feature but it only works in English, not Hungarian, for some reason. So I have to keep remembering that I can only use it in one language and not the other.
The third issue is punctuation. All 3rd party keyboards have a dedicated button that you can press and hold for ! ? . , etc... iOS doesn't have this, you have to do it in two steps. So typing one question mark requires you to press the punctuation button, then the question mark, then press the punctuation button again to exit this mode. On other keyboards it's one press, drag, and then release.
iOS also has a very poor autocorrect in Hungarian, that corrects words that are already correct. For example, if I type "run" it might correct it to "running". Or if I type "black" it might correct it to "blacksmith". Also, if you type a word that only has one mistake, it might completely change the word. So for example if you type something like "congratukations" it might correct it to something absolutely insane like "constitutionalities" instead of just fixing the obvious tiny mistake.
So why not use 3rd party keyboards that all offer these features? Because they keep freezing and bugging out. I've tried Swiftkey, Swipe and Gboard, and they all have the same issue: about one time out of 5, when you start typing, they just don't respond. You have to quit the app, relaunch it, and find your way back to where you were and try again. Doing this 10 times a day is not a solution.
So what can you do? When the iPhone came out in 2007 everyone complained about autocorrect. It's nearly 2022 and there still isn't a convenient way to type on an iPhone. Why can't it just work?
