iOS 11 keyboard

In the iOS 11 keyboard, when you hit the .?123 button, the Undo button then takes up approximately 25% of where the Space bar used to be. When typing in landscape mode right handed, I use my right thumb to hit Space, exactly where the Undo button now resides while in the numbers part of the keyboard. I'd be typing a text or filling a form when all of a sudden what I had typed just disappeared. It took me a while to figure out it was due to hitting the Undo button, when thinking I was hitting Space. Unbelievably poor design by Apple.


I've been unable to find a way to change the keyboard, that part of the keyboard, etc. Am I able to change the keyboard or do I just have to put up with this nonsensical design feature?

iPad Air 2 WiFi, Cellular, iOS 11

Posted on Sep 25, 2017 4:57 PM

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Posted on Sep 25, 2017 5:24 PM

You can’t modify this one, but you can check App Store for third party keyboards.


Share your thoughts with Apple. This is rather odd...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Oct 18, 2017 5:23 AM in response to 69Voltage

I also think this is a non-sensical change. The undo and redo buttons are in the top of the keyboard anyway. Why waste space by duplicating the key. Also, why has the question mark disappeared from the numeric keyboard? You now have to use the shift key to use a question mark. Again, a huge waste of time. Please allow us to change the keyboards or stop changing it for no reason.

Jan 21, 2018 8:11 PM in response to Fuji-core

FYI,

You really didn’t have to upgrade/update your iOS.

The news media has really been over hyping/over obsessing/ over reporting the actual seriousness of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws/vulnerabilities.


This Intel CPU chip flaw is too early in its discovery to know what any electronics and computer manufacturers are going to do at this early stage.

This is a 15-20 year CPU chip flaw/security flaw.

Many users still using lots of older, legacy devices, computers and OSes.

There is really no way to know what Apple and other computing/electronics companies are going to do about legacy devices, computers and legacy mobile devices.

If you haven't had any issues all of these years with your iDevices and any other computing devices, chances are good that you won’t encounter any issues in the near or foreseeable future.

iOS is sandboxed and even Mac OSes still need user interaction/intervention to deny install of malicious code to allow an exploit of this CPU chip vulnerability/flaw from an unknown/untrusted source.

Currently, these vulnerabilities are still theoretical, as there have been no known confirmed reports of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, as of yet!

So, as long as you are accessing trusted websites, NOT engaging in illegal web activities, like torrenting and pirating of music, video/movie media content/software and do not open emails and email attachments from unknown or untrusted sources, your exposure to this CPU flaw is negligible.

I am still using iPad 2 and 3 models and an older legacy computer with older OS and legacy software and I while I am just as concerned about these vulnerabilities, I am NOT too worried, at all, about my computing devices being affected/exploited by Spectre OR Meltdown security issues, as long as I keep as safe as I can online.


An exploit of these vulnerabilities would be targeted more toward governments, corporations and large banking instutions before a hacker would go after the average computer/computing device user.



The type of CPU/chip level code knowledge needed to recreate these security exploits is NOT something an average hacker is capable of implementing very easily.


The sky isn't falling!

Oct 29, 2017 7:42 PM in response to 69Voltage

I have the same issue. Pressing the .?123 key shows a keyboard with an Undo button right next to the space bar. What?


Although an undo key might be useful (I’m not positive about this, but it might be), it makes NO sense that you cannot undo the Undo, OR that you cannot simply remove (ie, turn off) this feature in Settings-General-Keyboard. I have completely deleted many texts since updating to iOS11, which is SO frustrating. And they are simply gone—poof. I am training myself never to use the .?123 key, which of course limits what I can type.


I will also send this feedback to Apple directly. Just wanted to add my two cents' worth.

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