iOS 17 Promises to Dramatically Improve iPhone's Autocorrect

[Frantisekj]

So far, results are mixed for me (mainly a swipe typer, I should add). But I think Apple does some A/B testing during the betas, so perhaps I don’t have it yet. At least I hope so!

It is first beta... I have mixed results as well and in my language I am not sure there are any changes. It is still not too good.

 

[SactoGuy18]

One suggestion: how about a better layout for the keyboard?

 

[compwiz1202]

I'm (barely) in that group and never heard it in my life. Must be some kind of west coast hipster thing.

Yea I'm a half century in SE PA, and I've heard of the word but never used it and don't think I've ever heard someone use it in person

 

[Razorpit]

Yea I'm a half century in SE PA, and I've heard of the word but never used it and don't think I've ever heard someone use it in person

Greetings from a half century old SW PA'er. 😉

 

[snowatom]

You’re right. If Apple sold just one phone in Europe, however, that would still also be true.

Apple is based in the United States. Most of its employees are in the United States. A huge percentage of its customers are in the United States. Why would you expect the coverage to be different?

Maybe you should check the sales numbers one more time. Europe is a huge market for Apple, and now also the reason iPhones gets USB-C

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Maybe you should check the sales numbers one more time. Europe is a huge market for Apple, and now also the reason iPhones gets USB-C

Indeed. Although Europe has twice the population of the United States, and Android is more popular on the whole, iPhones are still immensely popular here and account for a third of Apples global sales. I often see Americans on here suggesting Apple pull out of Europe when Apple are held to account over something, yet I don’t think these people have any concept of how big Europe is and how lucrative it is in the global consumer market.

 

[Torty]

You need at least an A14 for that.

 

[NARadyk]

I’ve been using the developer beta for iOS 17 / iPad OS 17 and so far my initial thoughts are that it is worse than before…

 

[Razorpit]

I’ve been using the developer beta for iOS 17 / iPad OS 17 and so far my initial thoughts are that it is worse than before…

Wow. I'm on 15.7.2 and at times it is worse than not having one at all. I can't imagine how the "new and improved" version is worse than what I have. And to make it a tent-pole feature to boot. 🙄

 

[ignatius345]

THANK. GOD.

Apple has never been one to hop on the hype train and I don't think they should start now.

I appreciate the way Apple approaches things like this: hang back others make the first messy and imperfect version of a new technology, then release a much more refined version with a developed use case that's well integrated into their ecosystem. Not saying they do this exactly right every time, but I think they do it better than anyone else.

This is why we don't have a folding iPhone today. If (if) something like that form factor proves to be useful and practical, they'll step over the corpses of failed RAZR and Samsung foldables to produce one that actually works and doesn't break. If not, not!

 

[gwhizkids]

Still underwhelmed by the “improved” autocorrect, at least as it’s implemented when using the QuickPath (swipe) keyboard. Fixing that may require something other than an LLM implementation. Probably requires more learning about how people actually swipe and then make adjustments to the algorithm based on that physical input. Much the same way that Ken Kocienda had to “secretly” enlarge the desired key so that touches in its vicinity would trigger that key rather than adjacent keys. Like “knowing” that if I type the letter “T”, I am about 100% more likely to want “H” to be the next letter rather than “G”, “J”, “B”, or “N”. And substantially more likely than “U” or “Y”.