[cageface]

I can't figure out why Apple has neglected their stock keyboard for so long. They finally added autosuggestions but their keyboard still lags far behind third party offerings in speed, feature set, and flexibility. And third party keyboards are still so buggy on iOS as to be almost unusable. About 90% of my use of a smart phone is messaging in some form so this is a big deal.

And iMessage is buggy enough that I long ago switched to WhatsApp and haven't looked back. Apple makes great hardware but their software is increasingly falling behind the competition.

[noblethrasher]

On the other hand, iOS is the only platform which has a default keyboard that lets me use typographically appropriate characters, such as actual smart quotes (“” ’), real ellipsis (…), and the correct hyphens (- – —).

This has been true since at least iOS 5.