I live in the UK and, aside from the screen brightness variant thing (which I'm 99.5% certain DID NOT exist before I installed 8.3), I've run into another couple of irritating problems, both concerning autocorrect:
1. Autocapitalisation of words used as sports team names in the U.S. and Australia.
Exactly as it says. Here in the UK our cricket, rugby (both league and union) and ice hockey teams (yep, we've a national ice hockey league!) DO have nicknames, and some of these are even shared with teams in the U.S. (e.g. Chicago Bears/Warwickshire Bears), but these aren't words I capitalise on a regular basis because I'm not all that much of sports fan; why would I, as a Brit, ever have need to spell Dolphins, for example, with a capital 'D'…? Even if I was in the States, surely lowercase ought to be the automatic default…? Surely it should only autocapitalise if preceded by 'Miami'…?).
Same with Kangaroos (the Aussie national rugby league side) and Wallabies (Aussie rugby union), and Roos. These aren't words I write too often, but it's fecking frustrating having to go back and retype (often I won't even get the 'balloon' if I put the cursor up against them).
This happens every damn time with words that can be used as proper nouns - this has ONLY begun happening since the installation of 8.3. I know autocorrect has an annoying habit of saving misspellings and alternate spellings after a word only being misspelt once - so much for Apple's boast that autocorrect had become more 'intelligent' (ironically, a few itinerations of iOS ago, 'Apple' used to autocapitalise (it did then, just to piss me off!)) but I've never capitalised any of the words it's now insisting should be.
2. Alternating between British and American spelling as-and-when it fecking feels like it!
This mainly occurs when spelling words which the U.S. spells with a 'z' rather than an 's', but I can recall a good few times when my iPad has decided that words like 'colour' and 'labour' shouldn't contain a 'u' (talking of which, and going back to the first issue, I'm a member of the British Labour Party, so I'm more likely to spell 'labour' with a capital 'L', yet it NEVER autocapitalises (it won't even cotton on to the fact that when 'labour' and 'party' are in conjunction, it should autocapitalise both - it won't capitalise either).
At first, I thought it was sites like FB and Instagram overriding my iPad's settings, but that wouldn't account for the autocapitalisation of kangaroos (which it didn't autocapitalise then, but it did earlier in the post - WTAF…?! Only response for it) and, besides, I use the Twitter and Tumblr apps, and it happens there, too.
I realise Mac Rumours is predominantly American (sorry, I refuse to omit the 'u'), but has anyone else run into this (Canucks…? South Africans…? Kiwis…? Anywhere else that's adopted British spelling…?). I posted this to Apple's forum, a fortnight or so ago, but I've had no response so, either no-one's understood me (very likely) or this issue's unique to me.
Took me a while to install 8.3, because I was labouring under the miscomprehension that the Apple Watch app came bundled with both flavours, not just the iPhone.
How can I fix it (short of nixing it back to factory - I can't do that, because I've no access to a computer and, even if I DID, what are the odds of the issues being reinstalled alongside 8.3…?)…? These issues definitely WERE NOT I evidence under 8.1.2 (I never installed any interim versions).
Neither of these issues were in evidence prior to installation of 8.3.
128GB Air 2, if it matters…
Any help out there…?
Cheers,
SJ
1. Autocapitalisation of words used as sports team names in the U.S. and Australia.
Exactly as it says. Here in the UK our cricket, rugby (both league and union) and ice hockey teams (yep, we've a national ice hockey league!) DO have nicknames, and some of these are even shared with teams in the U.S. (e.g. Chicago Bears/Warwickshire Bears), but these aren't words I capitalise on a regular basis because I'm not all that much of sports fan; why would I, as a Brit, ever have need to spell Dolphins, for example, with a capital 'D'…? Even if I was in the States, surely lowercase ought to be the automatic default…? Surely it should only autocapitalise if preceded by 'Miami'…?).
Same with Kangaroos (the Aussie national rugby league side) and Wallabies (Aussie rugby union), and Roos. These aren't words I write too often, but it's fecking frustrating having to go back and retype (often I won't even get the 'balloon' if I put the cursor up against them).
This happens every damn time with words that can be used as proper nouns - this has ONLY begun happening since the installation of 8.3. I know autocorrect has an annoying habit of saving misspellings and alternate spellings after a word only being misspelt once - so much for Apple's boast that autocorrect had become more 'intelligent' (ironically, a few itinerations of iOS ago, 'Apple' used to autocapitalise (it did then, just to piss me off!)) but I've never capitalised any of the words it's now insisting should be.
2. Alternating between British and American spelling as-and-when it fecking feels like it!
This mainly occurs when spelling words which the U.S. spells with a 'z' rather than an 's', but I can recall a good few times when my iPad has decided that words like 'colour' and 'labour' shouldn't contain a 'u' (talking of which, and going back to the first issue, I'm a member of the British Labour Party, so I'm more likely to spell 'labour' with a capital 'L', yet it NEVER autocapitalises (it won't even cotton on to the fact that when 'labour' and 'party' are in conjunction, it should autocapitalise both - it won't capitalise either).
At first, I thought it was sites like FB and Instagram overriding my iPad's settings, but that wouldn't account for the autocapitalisation of kangaroos (which it didn't autocapitalise then, but it did earlier in the post - WTAF…?! Only response for it) and, besides, I use the Twitter and Tumblr apps, and it happens there, too.
I realise Mac Rumours is predominantly American (sorry, I refuse to omit the 'u'), but has anyone else run into this (Canucks…? South Africans…? Kiwis…? Anywhere else that's adopted British spelling…?). I posted this to Apple's forum, a fortnight or so ago, but I've had no response so, either no-one's understood me (very likely) or this issue's unique to me.
Took me a while to install 8.3, because I was labouring under the miscomprehension that the Apple Watch app came bundled with both flavours, not just the iPhone.
How can I fix it (short of nixing it back to factory - I can't do that, because I've no access to a computer and, even if I DID, what are the odds of the issues being reinstalled alongside 8.3…?)…? These issues definitely WERE NOT I evidence under 8.1.2 (I never installed any interim versions).
Neither of these issues were in evidence prior to installation of 8.3.
128GB Air 2, if it matters…
Any help out there…?
Cheers,
SJ