Apple Fixes the Keyboard Spacebar in iOS 8.3 Beta

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Posted March 13, 2015 at 7:51pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has fixed an annoying quirk with the iPhone search keyboard in iOS 8.3 beta, notes MacRumors.

Users have long complained about the spacebar not being centered on the larger display of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus. Rather than extending the spacebar to the right, Apple had previously extended the Go button to the left. This resulted in a lot of accidental period taps rather than spacebar taps.

For example, Twitter user Austin Spencer recently tweeted:

I.cannot.adjust to.the.period being.over.the.old http://space.bar .spot on.the.iPhone 6.Plus

As you can see in the screenshot below, that issue has now been rectified.

Notably, Apple just released iOS 8.3 beta 3 to developers and a beta of iOS 8.3 to the public for the very first time.

The iOS 8.3 Beta includes improved performance, increased stability, bug fixes, and a redesigned Emoji keyboard. This release also supports additional language and country support for Siri: English (India, New Zealand), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (turkey).

In addition, the third beta brings a new Conversation List Filtering feature which when enabled adds a segmented control to the top of your messages, letting you filter between known contacts and unknown sources.

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Apple Fixes the Keyboard Spacebar in iOS 8.3 Beta

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Surtock - March 15, 2015 at 12:13am

Does anyone know of a jailbreak tweak to fix this? I don't want to lose my jailbreak just for this.

Bill Gates - March 15, 2015 at 5:30pm

Same here, please someone port it to a jailbroken phone

Carsten - March 14, 2015 at 10:05am

On My iPhone 6 the keyboard looks like the old picture. Still have problems typing.

Uhm - March 14, 2015 at 12:34am

I'm on iOS 8.2 and it looks like it's fixed on what I'm running. My keyboard matches the new picture posted in the article.

gamerscul9870 - March 13, 2015 at 9:44pm

I trained my fingers to be fit with the space bar and I still type good with it. Not running beta.

Bill Gates - March 13, 2015 at 9:36pm

So can it be port it iOS 8.11 on a jailbroken iPhone?

Bill Gates - March 13, 2015 at 9:30pm

Thank you God... That was a pain in the butt... I always thought it was me... I thought I had fat fingers...

gamerscul9870 - March 13, 2015 at 9:00pm

I don't even have a problem with mine.

AoS_HJ - March 13, 2015 at 8:27pm

Well done for listening Apple :-)

Yanni - March 13, 2015 at 8:04pm

Thank Jesus. I thought I was turning dyslexic or something.

Stefano - March 13, 2015 at 7:59pm

Even if in the iPhone 5s is not the case, since I changed back to.ios from Android I keep having this problem, maybe is a display size problem (being used to a bigger one)

Novie - March 13, 2015 at 7:57pm

Omg.YES!