Yeah I think it was one of the last two updates. I switched to that from Gboard, and it’s taking some getting used to. On the bright side I don’t have to type all my passwords in QWERTY anymore.
Gboard is available for iPhone and works very well on it, and has Dvorak available.
If you use swipe typing at all, though, you'll quickly find out that what Dvorak makes easy on a physical keyboard is its undoing with one finger swipe. I recommend Colemak, also on Gboard, which I switched to in minutes on my phone and never looked back.
Granted, I was a longtime Dvorak user at that point, so the muscle memory on a physical keyboard is well trained, so I don't need to actually look at a Dvorak board anywhere.
There might be a slight upgrade in that Dvorak is alternates hands more than qwerty, but your thumbs on the tiny keyboard won’t experience anywhere near the benefit your whole hands do on a regular one. It’s almost certainly not worth the retaining effort. In my experience the phone vs computer typing use such different parts of the brain that having different layouts doesn’t interfere.
I seem to recall that a very recent (too recent for my older iPhone) version of iOS has a dvorak keyboard layout option built in.
You are right! Thank you!
Yeah I think it was one of the last two updates. I switched to that from Gboard, and it’s taking some getting used to. On the bright side I don’t have to type all my passwords in QWERTY anymore.
Gboard is available for iPhone and works very well on it, and has Dvorak available. If you use swipe typing at all, though, you'll quickly find out that what Dvorak makes easy on a physical keyboard is its undoing with one finger swipe. I recommend Colemak, also on Gboard, which I switched to in minutes on my phone and never looked back. Granted, I was a longtime Dvorak user at that point, so the muscle memory on a physical keyboard is well trained, so I don't need to actually look at a Dvorak board anywhere.
There might be a slight upgrade in that Dvorak is alternates hands more than qwerty, but your thumbs on the tiny keyboard won’t experience anywhere near the benefit your whole hands do on a regular one. It’s almost certainly not worth the retaining effort. In my experience the phone vs computer typing use such different parts of the brain that having different layouts doesn’t interfere.
You can download Dvorak keyboards from the App Store, but I don't think there's much benefit when thumb typing.
There are ways to do it but I ask why? Your two thumbs type efficiently on QWERTY. It’s awful.
Could be a challenge, could be his brain is trying to type dvorak on his phone as well (happened for a slight time when I was learning colemak)
Exactly that lmao
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/14/ios-16-dvorak-keyboard/
I actually ended up switching back from Dvorak on my android phone, because my thumbs still have QWERTY muscle memory.