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iPhone X I can’t believe how horrible autocorrect is now
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It could be, all I know is it’s not the best system despite Apple having all that money, others say other systems are better.
Why is it so consistently difficult to type "face"? It seems to favor the V over the C every time. Is fave even a word? The red squiggly line Windows just put under it in this message says no.
‘Fave’ is slang for favourite, so the cloud based auto spell will have learnt it as a word from other users I suspect?
Yeah I don’t understand how autocorrect seems to have gotten worse over the years. What gives.
Not only that, but in the last couple years so many apps, including safari, have started to go nuts zipping to the top or bottom of a page/field when you try to move the selection handle. It’s just awful.
Not only that, but in the last couple years so many apps, including safari, have started to go nuts zipping to the top or bottom of a page/field when you try to move the selection handle. It’s just awful.
I have been having some auto correct issues on my Max lately. It's just random stuff mostly, but the other issue that bugs the MESS out of me is when I type can't or don't, I almost never get the ' and instead just get a space. Also I have noticed that when I am in notes and trying to delete a word, I get a weird mispelling. For instance, I was making a short list for a recipe and had written down Spaghetti noodles. When I went back to correct it to Angel hair pasta, I backspaced to delete spaghetti and I ended up with SAngel hair pasta in my auto correct suggestion. This happens every time I try to backspace delete, but does not happen if I highlight the whole word and delete it. Or I typed Large dog food, but wanted to change it to just Dog food, and when I backspaced I ended up with LDog food. So it's recognizing the first letter in a word I deleted, and suggesting it as a new word with what I'm trying to replace it with. I dunno. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with my phone.
I didn't think of that, it's certainly worth a shot. Thanks for the tip.
ETA: It was also suggested for me to reset the keyboard dictionary, so I did that as well. I guess I need to peruse settings more often, as I didn't even know there was such a setting.
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I must say my auto correct constantly thinks I intend on typing abd instead of and. Really frustrating!
Yes what the fock is the deal with that?? So irritating, practically impossible to place the cursor now.
I hate it. The one thing that irritates me is when it auto cap a word but when I add a new word before it, it still keeps that other word capitalized.
Apple just need to redo the entire autocorrect and keyboard with a smarter AI...but they wouldn't.
Apple just need to redo the entire autocorrect and keyboard with a smarter AI...but they wouldn't.
I have noticed I can have something correct but when I hit send autocorrect will change it. Drives me batty.
I know this thread was started when pleiosaurs roamed the earth and autocorrect hasn't improved much (if at all) over the eons — but I have tried typing with it off a few times, and as bad as iOS autocorrect is, (and it is bad) typing out text without it is even worse— I always turn it back on.
So don't think how bad it is — think how good it is compared to nothing
So don't think how bad it is — think how good it is compared to nothing
refreshing this once again. Has anyone noticed that it's gotten really bad recently? My phone is constantly correcting well to we'll. last to past
Why are you correcting regularly used words to other words? Let me make the decisions!
Why are you correcting regularly used words to other words? Let me make the decisions!
It’s absolutely terrible. It literally autocorrects correctly spelled words to an incorrect one. Makes no damn sense!
