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Since upgrading to iOS 7 I am constantly manually correcting words that should have easily been picked up by autocorrect. Simple words that are clearly misspellings of common words. I reall don't get it, how can they make something they've already developed worse??

and you still want iPhone?
 

It's so frustrating to hear people defend it as if it's the same, it's clearly not.

Any idea how it could get so much worse? Is it because it's a whole new operating system, they had to start from scratch?
 
I added a comma, I was actually asking and because you asked "and you still want iPhone?" Acknowledging the flaws.

I don't think he's acknowledging "flaws," I think he's just wondering how you can complain so much and still want an iPhone..
 
It's so frustrating to hear people defend it as if it's the same, it's clearly not.

Any idea how it could get so much worse? Is it because it's a whole new operating system, they had to start from scratch?

i'm guessing it's because of the iOS..
There were times when autocorrect doesn't work and there were times when autocorrect spelled a word wrong..
EDIT:I really can't figure what kind of engineers would be so stupid to create something like this.
 
i'm guessing it's because of the iOS..
There were times when autocorrect doesn't work and there were times when autocorrect spelled a word wrong..
EDIT:I really can't figure what kind of engineers would be so stupid to create something like this.

Yeah this is way worse than the map fiasco, autocorrect is used everyday in everything!
 
Yeah this is way worse than the map fiasco, autocorrect is used everyday in everything!
Although it appears to be different and worse for some apparently it's not so for many more, thus the extent of the issue is very limited and it's not even close to anything like the Maps fiasco in scope.
 
Although it appears to be different and worse for some apparently it's not so for many more, thus the extent of the issue is very limited and it's not even close to anything like the Maps fiasco in scope.

i hear yah.
 
Although it appears to be different and worse for some apparently it's not so for many more, thus the extent of the issue is very limited and it's not even close to anything like the Maps fiasco in scope.

I'll grant you that the scale of the maps fiasco was more massive but there is a very large percentage of people who are extremely frustrated with the decline in quality of autocorrect, hence the thousands of threads in Internet forums about it.
 
I'll grant you that the scale of the maps fiasco was more massive but there is a very large percentage of people who are extremely frustrated with the decline in quality of autocorrect, hence the thousands of threads in Internet forums about it.
What is this large percentage and these thousands of threads about it being different and worse in iOS? Even here at MacRumors where more things get complained about than many other parts of the internet there haven't been many or even almost any threads about it (compared to tons about new icons and other less important things).
 
This is a perfect example of my largest gripe with Apple and iPhone. The fact that they lock everything down so much that it hurts the experience. iPhone and iOS have so much freaking potential to be so much better but we just can't experience it. Apple can definitely loosen up on something like this, the keyboard. There are API's for apps to use keyboards like Flesky, which is awesome if you haven't tried it. But how the heck will users ever be able to enjoy this type of stuff across the OS if Apple doesn't loosen up? This company has access to some of the best developers in the world working on their platform. Take advantage of that **** for once.
 
This is a perfect example of my largest gripe with Apple and iPhone. The fact that they lock everything down so much that it hurts the experience. iPhone and iOS have so much freaking potential to be so much better but we just can't experience it. Apple can definitely loosen up on something like this, the keyboard. There are API's for apps to use keyboards like Flesky, which is awesome if you haven't tried it. But how the heck will users ever be able to enjoy this type of stuff across the OS if Apple doesn't loosen up? This company has access to some of the best developers in the world working on their platform. Take advantage of that **** for once.
Are there any keyboards w better autocorrect available if I'm jailbroken?
 
Are there any keyboards w better autocorrect available if I'm jailbroken?


I know there is a jailbreak tweak that allows you to use Flesky as your default keyboard in many apps.
 
My experience is that it doesn't seem to work consistently across apps.

It seems that autocorrect works very well for me in apps like iMessage and mail, but I have also had mixed results in 3rd party apps where my gibberish just gets replaced with more gibberish.
 
Truthfully, autocorrect aside, it seems like perhaps a bigger issue, or at least as big of an issue, for some is the touch recognition of the new keyboard--it seems that the touches in the same places that used to be recognized as one letter in pre iOS 7 keyboard are often, or at least sometimes, being now recognized as another letter next to it. At least for some, perhaps based on their way of touching the screen and muscle memory essentially, this has certainly affected the ability to type things without as many typos compared to before.
 
My experience is that it doesn't seem to work consistently across apps.

It seems that autocorrect works very well for me in apps like iMessage and mail, but I have also had mixed results in 3rd party apps where my gibberish just gets replaced with more gibberish.
It works terrible everywhere, esp messages.
 
Surely the answer is to type correctly in the first place! ;)

Mine corrected "Kaitlin" to "Maki toon"... Spelled correctly, and I even capitalized the name. It was also at the start of a new sentence.

Autocorrect is worse in many ways, but I do like that it can be used against another word, and that it can pick up on missed spaces. I think it'll get better.

The keyboard responsiveness is another issue though. I only notice it when I type really quickly.
 
I've noticed it, too, with the most random autocorrections that has nothing remotely close to do with the original wording.

I'd chalk it up to a bug or glitch that, hopefully, has been fixed in 7.1.
 
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