iOS 17: What's New With Autocorrect, Dictation and the Keyboard

[1madman1]

I want an option to make the dictation button go away. I am hitting it by accident at least twice per day and have used it approximately zero times since whenever the feature was added.

Would be nice if autocorrect would stop messing with me whenever I send someone a work email address ".gc.ca" is *always* corrected to "go" - every single time - and I've entered it HUNDREDS of times. It's learned other specific terminology and acronyms - even double capitals followed by lower case like "LCol", but absolutely refuses to do so with email addresses for whatever reason.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Duck yeah auto correct improvements!

A Ducking Word..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1684696668485345280

 

[rp100]

Can we get the auto correct fixed for the swipe functionality??? I feel like it gets worse with every release. I used to fire off words with great accuracy and lately it is making awful suggestions and forcing me to erase and re-swipe 20% of my text. Deliberately hovering over the final letter seems to fix the issue but it should be better than that by now….

 

[jw154j]

I read this is iPhone 12 and higher? Really? The iPhone 11 is not powerful enough to do autocorrect 2.0? Common.

I have an XS and it works on it. So I think they misspoke when they said this. It works really well on my XS. I don’t see many full sentences being suggested, but words are always being suggested. Grammar works really well also.

 

[v0lume4]

Is there still no multi-punctuation key? You can't hold the period key to bring up question marks or exclamation points? Why is this basic feature still missing?

Here's the Pixel keyboard:

Oh they’ll probably add it in like five years. Standard operating procedure for Apple.

Do you have a Pixel? I can’t wait to switch back to Android.

 

[George Dawes]

Like Siri hopefully this has been fundamentally redone

Number of times I’ve had utterly ludicrous word substitutions in iMessage, lost count tbh

 

[svish]

Many improvements with the keyboard on this year’s update

 

[aleni]

Duck yeahhh!! It's about ducking time!

 

[Jeffrey Lim]

Is there still no multi-punctuation key? You can't hold the period key to bring up question marks or exclamation points? Why is this basic feature still missing?

Here's the Pixel keyboard:

This has been in iOS for more than 10 years

You drag from the 123 button and let go over the symbol you want - and when you let go, it automatically returns to the QWERTY keyboard

 

[hagar]

Then get a newer iPhone? The 15 is right around the corner. Why do you need an iPhone that's four generations old when you get $350-$700 off an $800 phone with trade in? Honestly, I work at a cell phone store and can't stand customers like you - no offense but people shouldn't feel sorry for those who don't upgrade every 2-3 years .

It’s nice you’re so invested in your job and firmly believe everyone must have the latest Apple toy, and if someone doesn’t want or cannot afford it, they’re a loser you cannot stand. It speaks more about your character than mine.

My point is there is zero reason for Apple to keep a basic mondaine feature like an autocorrect upgrade from a 3 year old phone. Also, in my country, the trade-in value is 182 euro. While a iPhone 14 pro is 1328 euro. I don’t know if math is one of your skills but that’s a lot of money to get a slightly less sucky autocorrect. Maybe i should go and work in a cell phone store: it apparently makes good money. And creates wonderful personalities.

 

[hagar]

I want an option to make the dictation button go away. I am hitting it by accident at least twice per day and have used it approximately zero times since whenever the feature was added.

What I do, at least twice a day, is accidentally pulling down on the top row, causing a letter to be replaced by a number. So I end up with th3re instead of there. I never understood why Autocorrect doesn’t compensate for that. It’s not hard to detect this 3 should be an e. But it doesn’t, so I always assumed I must the only one in the world doing this.

 

[klasma]

Is there a way to reset the autocorrect database or machine learning?

Settings > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary

 

[klasma]

I read this is iPhone 12 and higher? Really? The iPhone 11 is not powerful enough to do autocorrect 2.0? Common.

There was a significant ML upgrade in the iPhone 12: "To deliver breakthrough machine learning capabilities, A14 Bionic includes a new 16-core Neural Engine that is twice as fast, and capable of performing up to 11 trillion operations per second, taking machine learning apps to a whole new level. A14 Bionic also includes second-generation machine learning accelerators in the CPU for 10 times faster machine learning calculations. This combination of the new Neural Engine, CPU machine learning accelerators, and high-performance GPU enables powerful on-device experiences for image recognition, natural language learning, analyzing motion, and more."

 

[klasma]

I want an option to make the dictation button go away.

Settings > General > Keyboards > Enable Dictation

 

[Seanm87]

Surely this makes the grey bar above the keyboard with the three suggested words irrelevant now?

 

[O.N.Y.X]

Duck yeah auto correct improvements!

… that are not working yet 😜

For the first time since like ios 3 I’m giving autocorrect another try. Until now the miss rate especially in other languages except English was so high, that manual corrections were quicker.

So far I’m quite pleased with ios 17!

 

[O.N.Y.X]

I often discuss two medicines: levothyroxine and liothyronine.

The first is in the standard dictionary. The second I added.

If I type them correctly, no problem. But almost any mistake I make in typing liothyronine sees it replaced by levothyroxine.

IOS and macOS. And very annoying.

Is this going to fix it?

This is a wonderful and apparently somewhat challenging example to test their ML algorithm.

 

[laz232]

Autocorrect is based on predictability.
Highly predictable things have low information content.
Ergo autocorrect is useful for useless messages.
🤣

 

[hagar]

There was a significant ML upgrade in the iPhone 12: "To deliver breakthrough machine learning capabilities, A14 Bionic includes a new 16-core Neural Engine that is twice as fast, and capable of performing up to 11 trillion operations per second, taking machine learning apps to a whole new level. A14 Bionic also includes second-generation machine learning accelerators in the CPU for 10 times faster machine learning calculations. This combination of the new Neural Engine, CPU machine learning accelerators, and high-performance GPU enables powerful on-device experiences for image recognition, natural language learning, analyzing motion, and more."

True. But this is Autocorrect. Something that’s been omnipresent since the ‘90. No idea why it’s soooooo bad on iOS and why it needs the computational equivalent to a rocket launcher.

If this new version will not be able to finish the entire sentence I built in my head, it’s a waste of resources 🤣

 

[polyphenol]

Nah. There’s no reason for them to care such minuscule detail.

It's not minuscule if you use those words regularly.

And those words are just my example. Applies to any words added to dictionary.

 

[klasma]

True. But this is Autocorrect. Something that’s been omnipresent since the ‘90.

No argument here, and I’m not holding my breath for the new ML-based variant to not still be worse than MS Word 20 years ago.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

So in future it will also tell you how "motherfocker" is spelled correctly?

 

[Sebalto]

This and a clipboard history ! I’m not really sure how important that might be for other people, but I used it a lot on my old Android device. It’s sad to me that iOS keyboard doesn’t have one.

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An excellent feature. I use it a lot on my Pixel. Maybe Apple deem it too complicated for their average user?

 

[baking soda]

Cool! More stuff I don't care about or use. Well done Apple.

Oh so you don't use the keyboard on your phone? lmao these comments.

 

[CTU Kyoto]

I find it baffling that after all these years, we still can’t tap a word that isn’t in the dictionary to add it and stop it being underlined red or corrected. It’s such a basic feature.