I'm a chef, and whenever I type the word "cook" my iPhone changes it to "jobs". Weird.
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Hundreds of iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting to 'I.T' on iOS 11 and Later
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I didn’t have this issue at all until I read this article. Very next instance of me using that I.T happened. Notice backspacing doesn’t suggest what you originally typed either.
Autocorrect was significantly better on the oldest iOS versions. It's terrible now. So bad I’ve had to turn it off and just use keyboard shortcuts for contractions so that I still get effortless apostrophes.
I do make typos, and I generally make the effort to fix them. But the effort it takes to fix my legit typos is actually less than that spent fighting autocorrect. That’s how I knew it was time to disable autocorrect.
I do make typos, and I generally make the effort to fix them. But the effort it takes to fix my legit typos is actually less than that spent fighting autocorrect. That’s how I knew it was time to disable autocorrect.
I suspect there is some combination of random factors which lead to someone being affected. Bugs like that can be quite a bit harder to identify and squash.
I’d really like to know why iOS 11 introduced so many bugs and broke or lost so many features (initially) that were previously working just fine and in some cases still aren’t fixed.
This doesn’t seem like it’s how software development is supposed to work. I’d genuinely like to know.
This doesn’t seem like it’s how software development is supposed to work. I’d genuinely like to know.
Hilarious cause even the auto correct is incorrect. I.T is not what we’re thinking it’s trying to do but I.T. (Information Technology)
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Ask his hairiness Mr Federighi
Emoji and Photoboth he introduced those amongst Files (which is great). Is the team failing him or is he not leading the best of the team can deliver?
Maybe this is where iOS kernel is now separate from macOS?!??
Annoying, sure... but heartbreaking? Really? Maybe google translate has failed you.
Maybe they need to expand their source of training data beyond the developers and QA staff.
Apple really REALLY needs to make the list of (potential) autocorrections available in the Settings app (say, Settings > General > Keyboard > Autocorrect), so one can go, uh, correct (some of) the autocorrections. I've got a number of words that iOS has mis-learned, in particular a few that it insists on capitalizing for me. It's infuriating to slow down to carefully type a particular odd word correctly on a tiny keyboard only to have the system replace it with some other word it prefers.
Everyday I encounter more and more bugs on my Apple devices. In the last 10 minutes:
1) my apple watch wouldn't connect to my AirPods without multiple attempts
2) my MacBook wouldn't connect to Wifi
3) once connected, my MacBook mail app shows "this message has no content" and after restarting I still can't get the messages to load
4) Safari hung and wouldn't open up a page until a restart
All my devices are on the latest OS versions. I've used Apple products exclusively for the last 8 years, and never seen so many issues. Somebody needs to crack the whip in the QA department.
And for the as-hats on this site who say "go buy a Windows product" I say screw you. There's nothing unreasonable about a consumer expecting better performance from the products they purchase, especially when historically those products were rock-solid.
1) my apple watch wouldn't connect to my AirPods without multiple attempts
2) my MacBook wouldn't connect to Wifi
3) once connected, my MacBook mail app shows "this message has no content" and after restarting I still can't get the messages to load
4) Safari hung and wouldn't open up a page until a restart
All my devices are on the latest OS versions. I've used Apple products exclusively for the last 8 years, and never seen so many issues. Somebody needs to crack the whip in the QA department.
And for the as-hats on this site who say "go buy a Windows product" I say screw you. There's nothing unreasonable about a consumer expecting better performance from the products they purchase, especially when historically those products were rock-solid.
iOS 10 autocorrects the holy crap out of my texts, sometimes text is greatly jumbled, sometimes it's just a few words turned and still readable. I wouldn't worry over "it" becoming "I.T", that would go largely unnoticed on iOS 10.
Yes I meant "heart breaking". Number of defects, look and feel of iOS, design choices and over quality of iOS has been downgraded so much in recent years. Of course it used to be way ahead before 5 years, but not now. That is why it is "hear breaking". For one simple example, have you compared notification center between android and iOS?
For your kind knowledge, I am not using any translation tool. Neither I am Apple hater. I still use iphone, macbook, ipad and airpods. But you certainly need to take admission in "primary school" first for being so rude and judgmental to learn some manners. Have a nice day
News about this platform has found the stabile middle ground between hilarious and overly tragic.
Time to repost this, in case an Apple software engineer actually bothers with reading comments.
Predictive text has been seriously messed up since iOS 10 for all people using more than one language on their phones.
I haven’t found a way to let Apple know apart from Genius Bar guys who all confirm this bug but have no way of contacting Apple about it.
Instead of simply ignoring a word from another language the following happens:
When writing text in any app using the apple keyboards (and third party keyboards like Gboard), Predictive Text predicts words from a different language than the keyboard language.
In detail:
Two keyboards have been activated on an iPhone e.g. English and German. (Or English and Portuguese. Any romanised language.)
The chosen keyboard is English.
Predictive Text will predict German words though there are many English words starting with the same letter combination that has been typed in.
Example:
When typing the first few letters of 'melancholy' with the UK English keyboard activated, the German words 'melancholie and melancholisch' are suggested.
When typing the first few letter of the German word 'Freundin' (girlfriend) whilst the German keyboard is activated, the English words 'From and Francisco' are suggested (not German words).
There are thousands of more examples of wrongly suggested words, also capitalisation of words that are usually lower case in English e.g. visa.
This problem exists for all romanised languages it seems. I have also tried Portuguese, Canadian and US English.
Example for English-Portuguese:
When typing 'me' with the UK English keyboard activated, the Portuguese word 'melhor' (better) gets suggested though there are hundreds of English words starting with 'me'.
Why is this a problem?
Certain languages are very similar. Like English and German. I have started sending emails and messages using German words by accident instead of the intended English words because I didn't see the subtle difference in spelling right away. Vey embarrassing in a professional environment.
Also, what sense does predictive text make, if it only predicts words one doesn’t want to use, i.e. words from another language?
On the Apple support website it states clearly that predictive text should predict words from the language that has been chosen with the keyboard. Unfortunately this hasn't been the case for allversions of iOS 10 and 11 so far.
All this was tested on factory reset iPhones as well. Even on a factory reset iPhone in an AppleStore.
Make sure to force quit the app you want to write text in after having activated an additional keyboard to make this bug show up from the next launch of the app on.
Tests have been conducted on more than 20iPhones using iOS versions from iOS 10.0 to 11.1.
Predictive text has been seriously messed up since iOS 10 for all people using more than one language on their phones.
I haven’t found a way to let Apple know apart from Genius Bar guys who all confirm this bug but have no way of contacting Apple about it.
Instead of simply ignoring a word from another language the following happens:
When writing text in any app using the apple keyboards (and third party keyboards like Gboard), Predictive Text predicts words from a different language than the keyboard language.
In detail:
Two keyboards have been activated on an iPhone e.g. English and German. (Or English and Portuguese. Any romanised language.)
The chosen keyboard is English.
Predictive Text will predict German words though there are many English words starting with the same letter combination that has been typed in.
Example:
When typing the first few letters of 'melancholy' with the UK English keyboard activated, the German words 'melancholie and melancholisch' are suggested.
When typing the first few letter of the German word 'Freundin' (girlfriend) whilst the German keyboard is activated, the English words 'From and Francisco' are suggested (not German words).
There are thousands of more examples of wrongly suggested words, also capitalisation of words that are usually lower case in English e.g. visa.
This problem exists for all romanised languages it seems. I have also tried Portuguese, Canadian and US English.
Example for English-Portuguese:
When typing 'me' with the UK English keyboard activated, the Portuguese word 'melhor' (better) gets suggested though there are hundreds of English words starting with 'me'.
Why is this a problem?
Certain languages are very similar. Like English and German. I have started sending emails and messages using German words by accident instead of the intended English words because I didn't see the subtle difference in spelling right away. Vey embarrassing in a professional environment.
Also, what sense does predictive text make, if it only predicts words one doesn’t want to use, i.e. words from another language?
On the Apple support website it states clearly that predictive text should predict words from the language that has been chosen with the keyboard. Unfortunately this hasn't been the case for allversions of iOS 10 and 11 so far.
All this was tested on factory reset iPhones as well. Even on a factory reset iPhone in an AppleStore.
Make sure to force quit the app you want to write text in after having activated an additional keyboard to make this bug show up from the next launch of the app on.
Tests have been conducted on more than 20iPhones using iOS versions from iOS 10.0 to 11.1.