[quamserena]

Omg I thought this was just me. How do I turn this off? On iOS, this has been bugging me for a long time.

[devmor]

I would love a way to turn it off as well, this is the source of the majority of my annoying typos.

[sushisource]

Seriously this explains so much. I thought I was going crazy, or just becoming an old man who can't type on a phone any more.

[shakna]

There is no builtin setting in iOS to disable it. However most 3rd party keyboards don't have it, as implementing it without OS support is a huge pain.

[nneonneo]

Why is it hard? In principle you render an image instead of discrete buttons, and do your hit testing manually. Sure, it’s more annoying than just having your OS tell you what key got hit, but keyboard makers are doing way fancier stuff just fine (e.g. Swype).