The only good reaction I have to this is that it just can’t get any worse so hopefully……
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iOS 17 Promises to Dramatically Improve iPhone's Autocorrect
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High hopes here. Even better if it stops "correcting" intended words to unintended words.
I came here to say this. The good old days of reliable autocorrect and super fast, offline Voice Control.
It’s an absolute shower of skit right now. Like someone said at the top, it worked fine years ago. It doesn’t need new AI nonsense, just revert to how it was about iphone 5 time.
Promises, promises. I desperately hope this is true but I’ll believe it when I see it.
The fact that C Fed actually said “when you just want to type a ducking word” gives me hope that they finally understand the problem.
Hopefully it's a success! Auto-correct has become an annoyance more than anything. It's getting to the point where I'd rather shut it off instead of correct auto-correct every other word.
And isn't it supposed to learn over time? 😂 Mine has done everything BUT learn!
And isn't it supposed to learn over time? 😂 Mine has done everything BUT learn!
Maybe it will stop trying to jam in an apostrophe on plural name forms?
Apple executives have FINALLY grown up.
But I'm sure Phil Schiller would've presented this better ... considering this
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I think this is the most killer feature in all of iOS 17.
lol, I just add all the ducking variations to the text replacement list. For that matter I add all the different words and slang that's not in the dictionary necessarily to the text replacement list. ANd that seemed to work very well.
Normally I would be rejoicing over this news (I’ve even made a topic previously about the poor autocorrect), but with the quality of Apple’s releases lately, I’m actually nervous it might end up worse…
I think that’s actually just how bad the word prediction is right now. I am constantly astonished at the things it thinks are my next words. Things that don’t even make sense, things I’ve never typed before, things no one would ever type. It’s like it’s just playing word association, badly.
Sad thing is though, that specific example is long since and easily fixed. I’ve made an extensive list of word replacements in my personal dictionary.
I just hope the actual prediction gets better. They are making big, specific promises so I’m finally hopeful.
I don’t think there’s ever going to be a no new features release for iOS though. It’s clearly the only place they are adding new features, then porting them to all the new platforms. That means they can never slow down if every year every new feature comes to iOS first.
I think of all the new IOS features, Autocorrect is the one I'm excited about. The Autocorrect needed some help, and I'm happy to see Apple trying to fix it.
I’m waiting to see it in action, cause it’s definitely something that needed improvement. Next can they work on better multiple languages support for those of us that have conversations in different languages with different people? Also don’t get why Siri can tell me that my sister sent me a message that isn’t in English, but can’t just switch language and read it in French…
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I can’t ducking wait!!!!
Apple today previewed iOS 17 for the iPhone, and one of the key new features coming with the update is improved autocorrect functionality.
Apple says iOS 17 includes a state-of-the-art language model for word prediction that will greatly improve autocorrection on the iPhone. Any time you type, on-device machine learning will intelligently correct mistakes with greater accuracy than ever before. In addition, you will now receive predictive text recommendations inline as you type, allowing for words or complete sentences to be added by tapping the space bar.
Autocorrection has an updated design on iOS 17 that briefly underlines an autocorrected word. Tapping on an underlined word reveals the original word that you typed, making it easy to quickly revert the change. The system will also learn your typing habits over time and avoid some corrections, which Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi said is designed for "those moments where you just want to type a ducking word."
iOS 17 is available in beta starting today for members of Apple's Developer Program, and will be publicly released later this year. Autocorrection can be enabled or disabled in the Settings app under General → Keyboard → Auto-Correction.
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