Recent comments in /f/iphone

infinityandbeyond75 t1_j8arb04 wrote

To me a lot depends on do you often put your phone down in public places? Do you have a lot of instances where you don’t know where your phone is? At your place of work are there a lot of thefts? Are you often in crowded areas? Do you use it on public transportation a lot where someone could grab it out of your hand and run? How is crime in your place of residence?

Just remember that theft or loss is not an instant replacement like AppleCare+. It goes through a third party and you have to work with them. Also, I believe the deductible is around $250. So look at the cost for two years plus the cost of the deductible and determine if that will be worth it to you if you have just one loss or theft in 2 years. Of course it covers more but if you’ve never lost or had one stolen I would just factor in one.

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panthereal t1_j8al51z wrote

If you plan for most everything else in your life to stay the same the next 2 years, I'd skip the theft and loss package.

Now if you have planed an out of the country trip to somewhere you've never gone, expect to move to a new city/town, or are looking to find a new job and potentially more risky job, theft and loss has a better chance of being more useful to you.

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owtlowd t1_j88heyx wrote

I'm giving this a shot. I figure it can't get any worse than it already is.

I think this doesn't have anything to do with the keyboard though. I think it might just be a dictionary.

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owtlowd t1_j88gqy0 wrote

The iPhone keyboard has always been bad, but I think it's worse than ever now, to the point that I just send voice messages to my wife instead of trying to text her. I really wish Apple would steal Google's voice-to-text and autocorrect software.

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mr_snartypants t1_j883sas wrote

I’ve tried swiftkey in the past. It’s decent, but not as good as Swype was. I was using gboard almost exclusively until iOS integrated swiping in their default keyboard. When I first moved to iOS, you were still forced to use the default keyboard for any passwords/etc. I found that extremely frustrating, once it was built into the default keyboard I just started using it and have stuck with it. The default keyboard, at this point, isn’t awful but the predictive text/autocorrect is truly bad.

Back in the day with Swype, you could pick from multiple keyboard layouts. You could also customize colors and it built up a library of words you would use often. The autocorrect was actually a benefit. iOS will simply change your entire sentence if you aren’t careful. I find that I often have to reread my text input sometimes twice to confirm I’ve typed what I actually intended.

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Solivagant4321 t1_j87xm7h wrote

Omg tell me about it, I moved from android the other day and got an iPhone after a very long time and the keyboard is so difficult to use, it just doesn’t have Google’s dictionary and using google keyboard doesn’t fix it

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