Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone
Your iPhone dislikes "Flickr"
Some have said that the iPhone 2.0 software is buggy. We say, "Bugs? What bugs?"Today, reader Alfred has identified one that you can try for yourself. Open up Notes and attempt to type "Flickr." You'll find that you can't. The 2.0 software replaces "Flickr" with "flicke" or "flickt".
Here's the weird part: you can't even select the "r" button. Sliding a finger from "e" to "t" skips "r" entirely.
Here's the obvious, inelegant workaround: delete the "e" or "t" and type again. For more odd (and useful) iPhone tips, check out our iPhone 101 series.
Thanks, Alfred!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
scorpion919 said 5:08PM on 7-22-2008
i can type flickr without any problems
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iamwatson said 5:21PM on 7-22-2008
the problem is you cant type it straight through without backspacing...I cant do it.
scorpion919 said 5:23PM on 7-22-2008
i can type it straight through, maybe because i'm on german keyboard
Ted said 5:49PM on 7-22-2008
I call BS. I switched my iPhone to German and still have the same problem.
locklin said 9:44PM on 7-22-2008
I just tried both english and spanish and I can type it straight through
GenericWhiteGuy said 9:44PM on 7-22-2008
It does automatically capitalize WTF however. You need to have priorities...
JosephMohmed said 10:37PM on 7-22-2008
You can type Flickr correctly, but the problem is if you type Flick, then tap a different letter and try to slide to "R," it skips over it and only allows "E" or "T."
Which I don't think is a very big deal. I've never randomly decided to drag from a different letter to "R" instead of just tapping it, and if I ever do that I'll just have to drag outside of the keyboard and then tap the correct letter.
JJV said 7:12AM on 7-23-2008
It doesn't work for me either though even if my finger is right over the r and i press on it, it takes me to e and when i slide it goes to t hmmm weird
brandon said 5:09PM on 7-22-2008
wow ... slow news day?
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dNick said 5:09PM on 7-22-2008
Hmm. I'm having no problems sliding to r to get Flickr.
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fortinb said 5:11PM on 7-22-2008
You also can't type "Flickw" for some reason.
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Jack said 6:20PM on 7-22-2008
well... that's not a word....
haha
Big John said 10:36PM on 7-22-2008
@Jack: Neither is Flickr.
Gil said 7:48PM on 7-30-2008
Oh wow, Big John Studd is clever!
Alex said 5:11PM on 7-22-2008
I filed a bug regarding something similar (you can't type "thefr" properly) for firmware 1.1.4, and it was acknowledged as a known problem. It still wasn't fixed for 2.0 though. What gives, Apple?
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fishofthebay said 6:41PM on 7-22-2008
You can do the same thing with Firefox. Try typing it and you won't be able to type the "o" -- you'll end up with firefix.
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Josh said 5:15PM on 7-22-2008
It does the same thing with Twitter-changing it to 'Twitted', as well as with the name Ed-changes it to 'We'. Obnoxious when it's your best friend's name.
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Edward said 5:50PM on 7-22-2008
Well my name's Ed and my girlfriend's name is Chloe (which the iphone insists should be either Chlow or Chlor), so neither of us are in luck with the iPhone's very strange word choices!
Anson said 5:14PM on 7-22-2008
Also, I can't spell "Mackr" either.
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Tom said 5:14PM on 7-22-2008
Ummm. no. Works fine.
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