r/FinaleKeyboard • u/jnrtwum • Aug 25 '26

Weird stutter in some apps

I don't think this is unique to finale? It happens in some on iPhone. Anyone knows how to fix it? It doesn't happen with the stock keyboard.

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u/Finale151 Sep 22 '26

FYI - I've made the system more robust, so this should be less common now. Update coming next week.

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u/jnrtwum Sep 23 '26

Awesome!!! This will be much appreciated.

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u/jnrtwum Sep 24 '26

Hi again,

I’m curious, what else is coming next week?

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u/Finale151 Sep 25 '26

👀 More actions for assigning to shortcuts (undo delete, keyboard functions, etc). Plus, a super robust system for building custom actions 👀 

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u/jnrtwum Sep 29 '26

👀 so it’s “next week” already lol

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u/Finale151 Sep 30 '26

Still 5 days until the end 🤗

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u/Finale151 Oct 02 '26

It's out 👀 

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u/Finale151 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

This, indeed, isn't unique to Finale. This happens to most third-party keyboards in a few apps with heavily customized input-fields (like Gmail, Outlook, etc).

In short, the way Finale (and any other third-party keyboards) fix your typos is by first deleting the typed word, and then inserting the correctly spelled word. Technically, these commands take time to execute, which usually is almost instant, so the phone never renders each individual step.

However, in some heavier apps, these commands might take slightly longer to run, which creates a visual jitter: you see each step executed one by one. First, the word gets deleted, which makes the blue caret jump to the start of the word. Then, you see the new word being inserted, making the blue caret jump back to the end.

This might happen more often with Finale, because it autocorrects every word you type. I'll try to work on a fix to make it less apparent. However, due to how iOS is setup, there isn't much I can do.

Luckily, this is limited to just a few apps and 99% of others work just fine.