I don’t know if I’d like that or not.
The OS already uses a similar (if not the same) system for the Japanese Kana keyboard, with text suggestions displayed in a bar that you can scroll
∞ Autocorrect bar in iOS 5
I don’t know if I’d like that or not.
The OS already uses a similar (if not the same) system for the Japanese Kana keyboard, with text suggestions displayed in a bar that you can scroll
I was going to say it reminded me of the bar in Android from the couple of weeks I had an Android phone, but then I saw the headline of the article. Saved from exposing my own laziness again.
I’ve gotten fast and accurate enough at typing on the on-screen keyboard that I never got a use out of the bar there. For people still hunting and pecking however, this might be of some use?
Yeah, they’ve had this in the OS since at least iOS2 or iOS3, since I’ve seen it for years on the Japanese keyboard I occasionally use (primarily for the ridiculous emoticons they have programmed into it, since I’ve forgotten most of the Japanese I studied at my university). It used to look different, however. Prior to iOS5, it was a right-pointing gray arrow that scrolled things to the right one item at a time, rather than the black arrow pointing upwards, and the entire bar was not as tall either, I believe.
Like so many features on Android, it’s 50/50 in my experience. When I’m typing poorly, its nice to have a bailout option that just types the word I meant with one touch. But iOS’ spell correction usually catches my kind of typos, so the loss of another giant chunk of screen isn’t worth it.