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Does auto-correct piss you off?
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iRabbit said:
About 50% of the time, I do appreciate it. The other 50% of the time I either really don't like it...or I really hate it.
If there was just a simple set of arrow keys, life on the iPad would be so, so much easier.
And a fwd delete key would also make life typing on the iPad easier.
I type fast on an iPad until it comes to making corrections. If I type one fingered, it is more accurate. It is usually when I try to type with two hands and hold it along the sides that I end up touching other keys.
Although I type slower on my palm centro, because of the ability to cursed around, it is overall a touch faster.
You don't get it. There is NO workaround. Maybe you just type slowly. It's annoying. As for not using the device enough? What the heck does that have to do with the autocorrect not keeping up with the speed of my typing?
Interesting. A writer that's fond of -ly adverbs, and can't punctuate a sentence.
lol whenever i type the word starbucks it ended up being "star bucks" lol maybe its the fact that i dont capitalized the letter S
$MacUser$ said:
He only used one -ly word. That's allowed. What made it stand out was that he used it in an old-fashioned way: "beautifully work" instead of "work beautifully." That's a matter of style.
I do not excuse the missing question mark.
I guess I type slowly, too, because I've never had the "I" problem. "vie" bothers me a little. But on the whole in my own experience these don't outweigh the time-saving benefit of autocorrection (for us slow typists) as long as I keep my eyes mostly on the text window and not the keyboard, so I don't inadvertently accept bogus "corrections."
Don't take your autocorrect frustrations out on me. I get decent wpm and the feature doesn't get in my way. I type enough on it that it corrects according to my usages.
As far as your comment on adverbs, go read a book.
It's an example of tone shaping the sentence. If it was a question I was trying to get an answer to, I'd put a question mark after it. If I was speaking the sentence, it wouldn't sound much like a question, even if its structure is as such. People do it every day.
What's the point? Autocorrect as a feature is designed to change based on your usage. If you haven't used it enough you'll notice the symptoms seen in this thread.
There are plenty of things to complain about on an iPad. Something that lets you ignore some of the limitations of a software keyboard shouldn't be one of them.
Indeed. And don't take your wanna-be writer frustrations out on me.
I guess you've never read Mark Twain?
...poor excuse.
In the end, if you come into a thread preaching and slinging around "Jesus Christ"s and "use your brain"s, expect to catch a little heat. Good luck with the next great American novel...
It doesn't work properly for me or the OP. The word "I" is the big problem. If you type i, there is a delay for the auto correct to capitalize. That is my biggest gripe with the auto-cap feature. It is nowhere nearly as responsive as the iPhone. Yes, the system will eventually learn your terms, but there is a problem with the speed of the system. You missed the point of the OP.
Change internal spelling dictionary
I have had several iphones and an ipad.
Right from the first day it has autocorrected Kev to KeV and kev to keV.
I thought I must have typed it wrong the first time and it had learnt it but no!
The word doesn't appear in the dictionary (I have checked in a jailbroken iphone)
I can add the correct form to the dictionary but it does no good.
Today I tried a Brand new ipad - thinking that iPhones have in the past had my personally setting restored when I set them up in iTunes.
I connected the iPad registered the device (checking my iTunes account does not have the capital V anywhere first)
Immediately my brand new iPad corrects Kev to KeV so it has got it somewhere from my iTunes. It is not in the dictionary it is held somewhere else.
Does anyone have any idea where this is coming from - I am truly p!$$ed having to correct my name every time I write it.
Thanks
KeV (sorry I must be getting used to it)
I have had several iphones and an ipad.
Right from the first day it has autocorrected Kev to KeV and kev to keV.
I thought I must have typed it wrong the first time and it had learnt it but no!
The word doesn't appear in the dictionary (I have checked in a jailbroken iphone)
I can add the correct form to the dictionary but it does no good.
Today I tried a Brand new ipad - thinking that iPhones have in the past had my personally setting restored when I set them up in iTunes.
I connected the iPad registered the device (checking my iTunes account does not have the capital V anywhere first)
Immediately my brand new iPad corrects Kev to KeV so it has got it somewhere from my iTunes. It is not in the dictionary it is held somewhere else.
Does anyone have any idea where this is coming from - I am truly p!$$ed having to correct my name every time I write it.
Thanks
KeV (sorry I must be getting used to it)
Do you have it in contacts that way? (ok, I think that is only valid in MobileMe, but contacts is a place to check)
I have most of the issues listed, and it stll hasn't learned I mean he'll.
I've is finally suggest most of the time... But that is recent. I really want to be able to fix these, but I think I read the dictionary thing in iOS 4 isn't what we thought it would be too
"eV" is the standard abbreviation for electron volt. "keV" means kilo-electron volt.
I think if you keep rejecting this correction and leaving "Kev," after a while the software will get the point.
My only common typing mistake is pressing m or n instead of space - would be handy if it could detect that and auto-correct it when what i've written is clearly gibberish.
Otherwise yeah, I'd quite like to keep the quick correction available by keeping the red underline, but without the auto correct as I type part.
Otherwise yeah, I'd quite like to keep the quick correction available by keeping the red underline, but without the auto correct as I type part.
What's weird for me is when I get done with the iPad and work on my desktop, I have a hard time typing. I'm used to the auto correct and caps at the start of a sentence and put the period at the end and auto correct certain words like NFL.
With the desktop, I have do that all myself and it's more difficult than one might think.
With the desktop, I have do that all myself and it's more difficult than one might think.
Yes the auto-correct is **** on the ipad! I also find that I end up typing m or n instead of space and the auto correct makes it looks like gibberish. another complain and this is probably the keyboard layout for some stuff like the AIM application, i always end up pressing send while I am trying to backspace to correct some idiotic correction made by the spell check. So yeah I have auto correct turned off now, even with minor mistakes it is at least not gibberish..
Kev not KeV
I have tonight tried several iPhones belonging to different people. They all correct kev to be keV and Kev to KeV.
This is clearly not right. How many people user kilo electro volts compared with the number of people called Kev.
Come on Apple get this fixed.
KeV
I have tonight tried several iPhones belonging to different people. They all correct kev to be keV and Kev to KeV.
This is clearly not right. How many people user kilo electro volts compared with the number of people called Kev.
Come on Apple get this fixed.
KeV
