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> And this is entirely separate from the technical side, where Apple's 3rd-party keyboard APIs are - quite frankly - terrible. Since 2014 keyboard APIs have been buggy, inconsistent, ever-changing, and broken - particularly when it comes to accessibility features like Direct Touch.

This actually ties into the foremost reason I don't use an iPhone. I'm a Dvorak user for 20+ years and have no ability to use QWERTY, or any interest in learning. iOS doesn't have a Dvorak option for the first-party keyboard, and every third-party keyboard I've tried with a Dvorak option is glitchy in ways that make them effectively unusable. (e.g. the system QWERTY keyboard will sometimes come up for OS-level events.) So, I use an Android phone.



Kinda funny because my Apple IIc has a built-in switch just for Dvorak!


Whoa! WTF? I always just assumed that would be there in Settings as an option, like it is on the Mac—but nope!

I'd have expected that to be added in iOS 3 at the latest. (I'd say at launch, but then it did take until iOS 3 to get copy and paste.)


It kinda is there in iOS like it is on the Mac - you can set hardware keyboards to Dvorak - it's just the software keyboard that can't be changed.


But Macs come with a hardware keyboard, and iOS comes with a software keyboard, so the right equivalent should be the software keyboard. :)

I don't know, it's just broadly weird to me that it isn't there. They have tons of keyboard layouts for different languages built in, why not Dvorak?




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