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Auto correction or bug?

bobsentell

bobsentell

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Ok, leaving 3.0 for a few minutes, I have an interesting problem.

Whenever I try to type in my daughter's first name on the iPhone (regardless of the App) I can't. Rebekah becomes Rebelah. So I did it one character at a time and discovered that I can't do it correctly the first time through...ever. After I get the R-E-B-E in, I cannot select K. I can only select the L or the J. The only way I get the K is to select either the L or J and then immediately delete it.

Try it yourself and see. Is this a bug or the product of the auto-correct? I thought the autocorrect was only supposed to fix things AFTER it's typed and not during.

Help?
 
i'd say it wasn't a bug, its just that your daughters name isnt in the dictionary so the iPhone thinks it knows better than you. lol.
 
It also does it on my wife's 2G. We aren't using a jailbroken phone. Just straight up factory software.
 
There have been other instances of this strange behaviour, which is definitely a bug - auto-correction shouldn't stop you manually typing something in!

On the plus side, it doesn't seem to do this on 3.0
 
Phil A. said:
There have been other instances of this strange behaviour, which is definitely a bug - auto-correction shouldn't stop you manually typing something in!

On the plus side, it doesn't seem to do this on 3.0
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That's good to know. I know a lot of people are going to try and play with the new features on their 3.0. I was going to start with trying to spell my child's name.:)
 
There are certain words that the autocorrective software won't let you type. I think 'genre' is one word but I just typed it so maybe that's changed in 3.0.

The software knows that Rebekah doesn't exist and you've obviously forgotten your daughter's name. I hope Rebelah doesn't get you anything for Fathers Day.

EDIT: Is her name spelt correctly in your contacts? If not, fix it and the phone will know you meant to type it in future
 
bobsentell said:
She's 13 months old. Her name is spelled correctly on the calendar
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I don't think calender entries effect it. Either give her a phone or just make a blank entry for her in contacts. Or just wait for 3.0 which seems to fix it.
 
Kahnyl said:
I don't think calender entries effect it. Either give her a phone or just make a blank entry for her in contacts. Or just wait for 3.0 which seems to fix it.
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I'm hoping. Apple should at least give us a way to add entries to the dictionary.

The only thing I don't get is I understand how the phone could be trying to spell "rebel", but the hell is a "rebej"?
 
Try typing "Lexus" on your phone.

There's a bunch of others that auto-correct even if you press the right letters.
 
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