Seems like "Apple is a mess" is pretty much that. There's certainly criticism, but it then gets undermined by unnecessary hyperbole and theatrics.
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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 can tell you a lot of things that actually point to "Apple is a mess". The auto correct, the worse battery life on iOS 11, the slower app opening on iOS 11, animations on iOS 11 making it look slower than it is, the ignored macOS, the MBP/MB keyboard being crap, no new MP for years, Siri being iffy when using Homekit and Homekit being meh, Siri being iffy with most things compared to competition, smart speaker delay.
These aren't all related to this topic, sure, but Apple is kind of a mess right now.
At the same time at most points during Apple's (or really any company's) lifetime people could usually also list off various issues that they have or have had and make similar statements essentially. Doesn't really seem like that says much one way or another. Even in the iPod example that I brought up there were plenty of people (including here at MR) calling Apple a mess for all kinds of reasons, including doing something lackluster and even supposedly horrible like suddenly putting out an MP3 player that pretty much most other companies already had for some time.
No, that's nothing alike. Apple wasn't screwing up almost all of their product lines in one way or another simply by putting out an MP3 player. All of the issues I've mentioned are within the past three years, four max. And it's nowhere near the "let's put out a product people don't expect us to" sort of thing you're pretending it is.
I.T. doesn't happen to me, even if I set the english keyboard.
But there are problems with my language, some words get predicted in a wrong way. Suppose you have two words with a different meaning, one ends with an accent the other no, you use 99% of the time the second one but the iPhone always predict the one with the accent, is so frustrating.
But there are problems with my language, some words get predicted in a wrong way. Suppose you have two words with a different meaning, one ends with an accent the other no, you use 99% of the time the second one but the iPhone always predict the one with the accent, is so frustrating.
I.T feels worse on macOS because it’s guaranteed that the user has a hardware keyboard. You’re much less likely to type terms like ‘ive’ and mean ‘I’ve’ than on a phone.
And no, that I.T isn’t a bad joke. I’m typing this on my iPhone, and can’t get rid of I.T.
Typing on iOS has stunk (for the most part) since iOS 7 became a thing. I don't know what it is or what changes occurred under the hood, but as soon as I went from iOS 6 to iOS 7, the errors in typing skyrocketed for me. I was a typing ninja prior but since iOS 7, I type like a female senior citizen with arthritis.
Autocorrect on OSX and iOS has never worked well, cannot ever work out the correctly spelled work and has a habit or replacing a word, even when you don't ask it to.
The same misspelling, when pasted into Word or Google search is correctly guessed first time.
The same misspelling, when pasted into Word or Google search is correctly guessed first time.
Still making excuses for Apple I see.
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Yes Apple really needs to upgrade their qc. Lots of stupid mistakes lately.
Not excuses. Just framing the issue in the proper context. What company doesn't make mistakes? If a company is "doomed" simply because of a minor problem like this, pretty much every other company out there would have been doomed many times over.
Probably the Knights who, until recently, said, "Ni" making sure that people didn't say the cursed word, whatever it is.
ug... now I said it.
ahhhhh!
ug... now I said it.
ahhhhh!
I never said Apple was doomed. They are financially the most successful ever.
I use their products daily, I love how they work together. My watch, iPhone and iPad.
People seem to put a company on a higher level for some reason. The compassion Apple is shown when they make mistakes is insane. I get this is a Apple forum. Android forums do the same thing. I guess I just don’t understand how a company has so much power in someone’s day to day life.
Interesting you feel that way. What I am seeing that Apple being subject to unreasonable levels of scrutiny and criticism while the competition is getting free passes over their missteps.
I don’t think I am showing Apple any compassion. I just feel that much of the vitriol being levelled at Apple here is simply criticism for criticism’s sake, tend to be quite superficial and do not show that deeper understanding of how Apple works, and I hope to be able to change that in what little way I can.
I agree that the news makes Apple their business. Any bugs are well publicized. But they also are quick to rate Apples products are the best. Being popular has its pros and cons.
To be fair. When there is a android bug. The msm always reports it. But again. Being the most successful business ever comes with cons.
You also have to agree that some Apple users come off as arrogant and condescending. You see I.T here. There’s that damn bug again.
Yes some android users are asses too. There’s those cons again. I.T
just seems that some people seem to equate apples success to their own.
especially when it does this with a DAMN word that’s exactly correct, in context, and what you intended to type, and if you tap it as typed in that condescending “ “ it’ll still correct it the next time. such garbage.
good/food
love/love < MEANT TO TYPE LIVE. FFS
and several others. just garbage sometimes, or frequently for common words.
I'll start from the beginning on this one, as I have seen it too and fixed it, last night.
Settings/General/Keyboards/
Add a New Keyboard (any language, you must have two actual languages to do the next step)
Delete English Keyboard.
Add English Keyboard back in.
Fixed.
I believe this is an actual virus, it catches from users to user and will get into your Mac messages as well. I didn't think to take screenshots, but my wife's Macbook was doing this yesterday too, and that's when i decided it was time to act or else i might get it. I have a feeling this issue, is due to machine learning the offending characters, maybe someone played a prank on someone with a text swap, and something in iOS 11 is allowing it to jump from phone to phone and to macs as well.
Get ready for the iPhone viruses.
BECAUSE IT'S A COMPUTER VIRUS.
Settings/General/Keyboards/
Add a New Keyboard (any language, you must have two actual languages to do the next step)
Delete English Keyboard.
Add English Keyboard back in.
Fixed.
I believe this is an actual virus, it catches from users to user and will get into your Mac messages as well. I didn't think to take screenshots, but my wife's Macbook was doing this yesterday too, and that's when i decided it was time to act or else i might get it. I have a feeling this issue, is due to machine learning the offending characters, maybe someone played a prank on someone with a text swap, and something in iOS 11 is allowing it to jump from phone to phone and to macs as well.
Get ready for the iPhone viruses.
[doublepost=1511879553][/doublepost]AT BEST IT'S ONLY A TEMPORARY FIX: IT CATCHES, YOU COULD CATCH IT AGAIN FROM SOMEONE.
At least a few hundred iPhone users and counting have complained about the word "it" autocorrecting to "I.T" on iOS 11 and later.
When affected users type the word "it" into a text field, the keyboard first shows "I.T" as a QuickType suggestion. After tapping the space key, the word "it" automatically changes to "I.T" without actually tapping the predictive suggestion.
A growing number of iPhone users have voiced their frustrations about the issue on the MacRumors discussion forums, Twitter, and other discussion platforms on the web since shortly after iOS 11 was released in late September.
MacRumors reader Tim shared a video that appears to indicate the issue can cause the word "is" to be autocorrected to "I.S" as well.
Many users claim the apparent autocorrect bug persists even after rebooting the device and performing other basic troubleshooting.
A temporary workaround is to tap Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement and enter "it" as both the phrase and shortcut, but some users insist this solution does not solve the problem.
A less ideal workaround is to toggle off auto-correction and/or predictive suggestions completely under Settings > General > Keyboard.
The issue is notable given Apple just recently addressed a similar bug that caused the letter "i" to autocorrect to "A[?]" on iOS 11 and later. The fix was included in iOS 11.1.1, publicly released in early November.
This similar "it" to "I.T" issue does not appear to be fixed in iOS 11.1.1 and later. It's unclear if a future software update will be required to address the problem, which MacRumors hasn't been able to reproduce. Apple did not respond to multiple requests for comment about this particular issue.
Article Link: Hundreds of iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting to 'I.T' on iOS 11 and Later
BECAUSE IT'S A COMPUTER VIRUS.
you know that not everyone is online all the time right? A hundred people complaining is actually a pretty big spike customer service-wise, speaking from experience.
Yeah, 100 people out of nearly 1 billion active iOS devices is definitely significant.
you completely misunderstood me. That is 100 people online only (already a huge number considering most people don't go online to complain). Do we know how many people called Apple support, emailed them, chatted with them, sent feedback from other means? Yeah, this is a big problem if 100 already reported this online.