It is not a bug. With the new iPhone X releasing that’s what the keyboard is, it’s in their “safe area”
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iPhone iOS 11 Landscape Keyboard
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Absolutely in the same boat as you. I also keep hitting the damn voice button!!! What a stupid choice to put it there under the backspace key and beside the intro key!
Apple has really screw us up removing this feature. It should be optional to continue using the iOS 10 landscape keyboard.
Most people didn't understand???? What are you talking about?? How can you make this statement? Have you run a survey involving "most people" using iPhones? I have not come to any user complaining that they were "confused" by the very helpful buttons on the landscape keyboard.
If this was done for the X then they have really screwed it up. Fu*ing X I hate it. Its layout with the hideous "lip" at the top is horrendous, and it's already damaging things that worked wonderfully for other iPhone users. I know already several long time iPhone users that for the first time have had enough and have jumped boat to Samsung. Apple thinks that all their users are going to follow them like sheep but people react to this kind of treatment. The sales of the iPhone 8 have been lackluster until now, first time there are no queue lines for getting a new iPhone.
It is SO BAD I can barely even reply. Somebody needs to be fired
For this. I have chucked this POS phone half a dozen times as entering text is near impossible!!!!! What IDIOT thought this was good? Where is the period? Where is the comma? The arrow keys? Why are keys so tiny? Why is the space bar so small and return key so tiny butted up next to it. This is why iPhone is slowly dying against the competitors. Did anybody actually try this garbage out before signing off on it? You are by no means alone.. everybody I have talked with is livid!
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You don’t need that stuff anyways. The trend is
On some websites, the text entry window hides your text and the cursor move doesn’t always work. The arrow keys are a godsend for fast typists. Especially when you only need to make corrections nearby. The landscape keyboard is useless. The return key is where the right part of the space bar used to be! They had it so nearly perfected and now this.
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It is about as good of business decision as yahoo rejecting google’s search engine years ago. The new keyboard is useless to people that can type fast. The old one was optimized and quite efficient. Now I keep hitting the return button as it sits where the space bar used to be. Rotary dial with a stylus is about as efficient as what they have now for landscape mode. I don’t get excited having to perform 3-5 operations to enter a single period at the end of each sentence. Imagine waking up to a big square steering wheel in your car and being told “adapt to it”.
I would have placed money on this being a bug. I said it was probably a bug in the first page and I am completely shocked. I used the side buttons quite frequently and I still attempt to do it out of habit. I am truly shocked Apple would leave that much emptiness. It’s not very Apple. It just looks bad.
For years Apple have pushed for pressing space two times to insert a period.
Yeah i dont get why they take out features of the other devices just to make sure something works on a touch id less and smaller device (compared to Plus). Apple certainly has the resources
They need to just make it software specific depending on device. Similar to how you can’t enter landscape mode on a non-plus device.
I just wanted to give a quick update. I updated to iOS 11.2 Beta 1 and the problem still exists.
So apple thinks it better to have emoji button visible rather than useful buttons... os for kids, atleast it seems to be so more and more on everyday... next we could have animation button for dog ears and eyes...
I mean several people said it’s because of the notch on the iPhone X, but I don’t see how this is true because the notch not as large as the current grey bars.
ok another one of my iOS 11 gripes why did they get rid of the landscape keyboard with the arrows and copy and paste on the side. They reverted to a simple keyboard when on landscape and using a plus model. I really used the arrows function a lot before.
If someone on here has an iPhone X could you please post a screenshot of the landscape keyboard on that phone. I’m curious to see if it is because of the notch.
Unfortunately, this ended up being the case.
Yeah I know.. I made this post last month.
I'm shocked.
Seems like this stupid keyboard are Made for iphone X and are stuck in this problem for good. Thanks apple, you ruin everything with this ios 11. Could somebody tell me how to force downgrade from ios 11 to 10 (iphone 7)?ugh![c6c311ec2dc332db6c778865cb064cd3.jpg]()
You know people always say “if Steve was still alive” type of comments. Well I wanna say if Steve was still alive heads would totally roll if the keyboard was released like that in his time. Programmers would be yelled at or fired.
He always believe you don’t just paint the front of the fence and leave the back unfinished... I don’t get why they took that functionality away. It must be temporary. It doesn’t make sense.
He always believe you don’t just paint the front of the fence and leave the back unfinished... I don’t get why they took that functionality away. It must be temporary. It doesn’t make sense.
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This is hideous.
Basically they couldn't find a way to properly fit the full keyboard onto the iPhone X with all the extra buttons (notch is blocking), so they flank with this extra gray space beside it.
All other phones just get empty spaces, while the X gets new emoji and dictation buttons.
Great... All phones on iOS 11 gets removed functionality and suffer because of this.