Heeding the advice of a tweet that flew by on my Twitter timeline this morning, I turned off the “predictive text bar” that likes to hover above my keyboard in iOS on my iPhone.
Ironically, this has made me able to type more accurately using both thumbs. I’m actually writing this blog entry at a decent clip.
The Predictive Text Bar was designed to predict what word you were trying include next in whatever you were typing on iOS. The feature was introduced a few years ago. There was a little bit of fanfare surrounding the inclusion. Words like “awesome” and “delight” were bandied about.
I’ve watched various words appear in this bar over the years but I think I’ve actually used the bar only once or twice. The removal of the bar seems to have sped everything up as well; my typing doesn’t feel nearly as laggy as it did before.
In 2018, It’s just works. With some work.
Oh wow – I didn’t realise you could do that. Would you mind sharing where the settings are as I can’t see them on my iPhone?