Dan Moren over at Six Colors and Macworld has a great article suggesting fixes to the iOS keyboard. You should give it a look if you do any amount of typing.

He makes a great point about autocorrect

Autocorrect needs a bigger dictionary, better ways to discern between words that are incorrect and words and terms it doesn’t know, and perhaps even an option to control how aggressive it is about fixing mistakes. (Right now, autocorrect is either on or off.) We’ve all probably gotten better at typing on screens, so it definitely shouldn’t feel like we’ve gotten worse.

I’d like to see a system over haul and see what would change with it.

I don’t agree with him about swipe texting though.

Speaking of getting better at typing on screens, how about adapting to other types of keyboards? I’m thinking predominantly of swipe typing. This system has been around for a long time on Android, and third-party keyboards like Google’s Gboard and Microsoft’s SwiftKey have brought it to iOS as well.

I’m not arguing that it shouldn’t be included. On the iPhone, I could see myself using it every now and then. I tried the swipe keyboard when they first came iOS and it didn’t stick with me.

He finally calls for a search function with emojis. Great idea since sometimes the right emoji doesn’t show up when you type it.

What would you change about the keyboard on iOS?