iPhone auto correct.......

[Dino F]

This is extremely minor but has always bugged me nevertheless.....

Why does the iPhone 4, ALWAYS (well mine always does!!) correct me whenever I type the word, 'white'?

i.e. - when I'm typing the word 'white' - my iPhone 4 always auto corrects it to 'White' - even when its in the middle of a sentence

 

[cookiesnfooty]

because white is a word and it is attempting to correct to White as a surname hence the capitalization of the w.

 

[Gav2k]

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I think it's more to do with the white house than it being a surname

 

[dave420]

I understand your frustration...My friend's phone always replaces the word "in" with "I'n" which I really don't understand. If you go into settings there is an option to reset the keyboard dictionary that might be worth a try.

 

[Interstella5555]

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I think it's more to do with the white house than it being a surname

That makes no sense at all; my phone doesn't auto cap "white" nor "white house."

 

[ThaDoggg]

My iPhone also autocorrects some common words and it is quite annoying at times but I've come to accept it.

 

[dave420]

That makes no sense at all; my phone doesn't auto cap "white" nor "white house."

Maybe the original poster frequently writes "White" and the phone has learned that as a new word?

 

[AdeFowler]

I wish the text input was more predictive and less corrective; it's forever attempting to split word into two

 

[TaterToT]

If there is someone in your contacts with the last name White then that will be the reason it's auto correcting it

 

[VulchR]

I wish the auto-correct cancel button was bigger - it wouldn't be such a hassle otherwise.

 

[heisenberg123]

Maybe the original poster frequently writes "White" and the phone has learned that as a new word?

thats correct i write Oakland A's a lot and now when i type "as" it corrects it to a's

if your jailbroken ManualCorrect is a must

 

[The Californian]

You most likely have someone in your contacts with the name "White".

 

[johneaston]

Mine always tries to correct "asst." (as in assistant) to Asst. I don't even know what an Asst is let alone why it should be capitalised.

I wish the dictionary would learn.

 

[msb3079]

auto-correct is one of the worst parts of iOS. I really hope they fix it.. just horrible. it doesn't figure out simple words but then will come up with whack ones.

 

[johneaston]

auto-correct is one of the worst parts of iOS. I really hope they fix it.. just horrible. it doesn't figure out simple words but then will come up with whack ones.

Or, at the very least, have the option of turning it off.

I also wish it would recognise web addresses so it wouldn't try and write www.Google.Co.UK

 

[Dino F]

Maybe the original poster frequently writes "White" and the phone has learned that as a new word?

......actually no - I never write the word, 'White'. I only ever write, 'white' (with no capital) but my iPhone ALWAYS auto-corrects it (incorrectly) to, 'White'. And I also do not have ANY contacts with the name, 'White' either so these 2 possible reasons are both invalid!

.....some other poster recommended I try resetting the dictionary - anyone know exactly what this actually does?! :S


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[heisenberg123]

Or, at the very least, have the option of turning it off.

I also wish it would recognise web addresses so it wouldn't try and write www.Google.Co.UK

you can turn it off

 

[dave420]

.....some other poster recommended I try resetting the dictionary - anyone know exactly what this actually does?! :S

That was me too...I would assume that would cause the phone to unlearn any words it has learned from how you type. For some reason it has picked up White. The disadvantage is that the phone would lose all the words it has learned from you. I suggested it to my friend who always has the phone correcting in to I'n, but he didn't it to lose all the words the phone learned

 

[collisos]

my autocorrect changes mad to max...don't really understand how that happened

 

[iRach]

ill to I'll is kinda annoying!

 

[iApples]

You can reset the keyboard dictionary and this will fix most of the auto correct problems.

Settings > General > Reset > Reset keyboard dictionary.

 

[IJBrekke]

Not spamming, this just pertains to the situation:

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

 

[JetBlack7]

Pardon me the question, but is your iPhone black? If it is, it's a racism thing xD

 

[Sorilla]

Not spamming, this just pertains to the situation:

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

Aha-ha-ha-ha many times

 

[fender57]

I find more positives than negatives with the auto-correct feature. It predicts many words and saves keystrokes for me more than it tries to "correct" words I spell a certain way.