hi you can also double tap and hold the delete key and it will delete as long as you hold it down.
Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 24/09/2012, at 2:51 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hello Jean-Philippe, > > I agree that typing accented characters seems a bit awkward, but I certainly > don’t agree with you on the delete key issue. You can delete quickly by > repeatedly tapping and lifting your finger off the delete key, if you do it > fast enough you just hear the letters you are deleting just like I would if I > press the backspace or delete key quickly on my computer. Takes a bit of > practice since you do have to lift up and put down again exactly on the > delete key. What would be nice is if Apple could keep things the way they are > with the delete key and in addition to that re-enable split tapping just for > the delete key since for Shift and More Numbers the touch typing method is > vastly better than having to double tap or split tap. > > Not quite sure yet what to think about the accented character thing, I have > to play around with it some more. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jean-Philippe Rykiel > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:05 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Not crazy about iOS 6 new touch type mode. > > Hi all, > I sent the following request to Apple, trying to be as clear as I could. > If you agree with my disagreement, I would like you to do the same with your > own words. > Thanks. > > Dear Apple team, > This new iOS version is great, but I would like to point out some unpleasant > issues with its revised touch typing mode. > > 1, It was a good move to give touch typing behaviour to keys such as capital > or other but not for the delete key. let me try and explain why. > In the previous iOS version, you could delete characters successively by > holding the delete key and split tapping as many times as you wanted. You > had full control of your delete speed because no matter where the second > finger was typing, the delete function was performed as long as the delete > key was held. > Now, with iOS six, you must be very careful and accurate if you want to > delete successive characters, as you have to constantly hit and release the > delete key. The new delete double tap and hold function is too quick to let > you hear the feedback of what you are deleting, so it is unusable most of the > time. > My wish is that the delete key was restored as it was in previous iOS > versions. > > The second disadvantage is for non-English- users who use accented letters > frequently. It is true that keyboard latency has been improved because of > this, but it is now impossible to briefly hit a key and then double tap and > hold it to get its alternative characters. You now have to do three gestures, > find the right letter, split tap, and then double tap and hold to look for > accents. May I suggest if possible, that you give us the accents list as > soon as split tapping is performed, allowing us to scroll through it by > sliding the second finger, that would be much easyer. > Thank you for your understanding, > sincerely, > Jean-Philippe > > http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
