14 DAY TRIAL // An admittedly small number of iPhone 4 users accusing issues with the phone’s virtual keyboard under iOS 4.1 are noting over at Apple’s Discussions’ forum that pressing a letter ends up typing one close by.
“Has anyone else noticed that the keyboard in iOS 4.1 is intermittently inaccurate? I updated my iPhone 4 and my girlfriends iPhone 3G and now we both have this issue where you type a letter and it ends up pressing one close by and predictably so: consecutively just above or to the side of where I actually pressed,” thread starter Mike Sch writes.
“I haven't seen the behaviour in any other apps albeit when I am typing with the default keyboard.”
He goes to explain that, at least in his case, the issue might actually be hardware-bound.
He provides an example where, using a drawing app, lines on sceeen may have gaps. “…in my experience it is 90% chance of being a hardware issue,” he notes.
However, the user also noted that he had begun experiencing this issue after updating to iOS 4.1, so it is still unclear whether the problem is software or hardware related.
Several other forum user chimed in with similar stories.
Vansman writes: “Yuppers, I’ve had the exact problem. Immediately after upgrading my iphone 4 to iOS 4.1 my keyboard started acting strange... I press letter in a text message quite carefully and receive the letter to the right of it.”
“If I release and try again I get same result. This problem does not happen EVERY time and in fact as of late not at all… but every once and a while it reoccurs. CLEARLY this is a bug iOS 4.1,” Vansman believes.
“On a good note, my extremely irritating proximity sensor problem is completely cured. Goodbye one problem, hello another,” he adds.
“I'm having the same issues with my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.1,” Bryan Leonard1 replies.
“I See that some folks are talking about a potential workaround by adding an international keyboard, but that didn't help me at all,” Bryan says.
“The only thing that seems to help in using the keyboard horizontally, however this is not helpful when texting lots,” he adds.
We would not suggest these iPhone 4 owners are making up stuff, but given the small number of reports on this presumed drawback, as well as the fact that some simply find it difficult to type on the iPhone’s keyboard, it is just possible that that this is a non-issue with iOS 4.1.
Finally, user egatehouse1 tells fellow Discussions posters that he is having the same kind of trouble, although fails to mention what device he is using.
He provides what he calls “a sample of what happens when I press my spacebar multiple time while in landscape mode.”
He then posts a long succession of letters close to the space bar (n, b, c, m, and z). The letter ‘m’ seems to be accidentally typed the most, in egatehouse1’s case.
Are you having trouble with your iPhone’s keyboard after updating to iOS 4.1?