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My Phone Won't Learn "Hell"!

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AbSoluTc

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How in the world do I get my phone to learn the word "hell" and stop trying to auto correct it to "he'll"? No matter how many times I say no, that's what I want - it keeps wanting to fix it. I was under the impression it would "learn" after a while? :confused:
 
I've noticed that. Its a word I like to use quite a lot too. It will learn the naughty words easily enough!
 
I use that word very often and mine won't either. Never has on any iPhone. It always ends up he'll.
 
the iPhone doesn't like most swear words and will try to autocorrect most of them to something else. ***** usually turns to duck too. This is just apple controlling the world.
 
Apple turns a blind eye to profanity and will always try to autocorrect the ones that are similar to acceptable works, such as he'll and shut. :apple:
 
AZREOSpecialist said:
How can calling a mythical place by name that doesn't really exist be considered swearing?
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Because its the way you use the word. When I was a kid my mom would never let me say it.

For example if you say: What is hell? Not swearing, saying: Who the hell are you? Can be interpreted into swearing, why not just say: Who are you?
 
My phone tries to always capitalise white. The iPad doesn't. I think it's because ive got someone called (----) White in my contacts. It bugs the he'll out of me.
 
I don't see it so much as Apple trying to control language, muchless the world. Apple is a consumer-focused company. It is simply what they do. In that vein, Apple is trying to keep customer's using their products from embarrassment by sending out a dirty word by accident. By default, they are trying to protect you from an unintended error, not trying to limit your free speech.

That's how I see it anyhow. YMMV.
 
My 3GS had wonderful autocorrect after awhile. I remember saying "shaniquaquiqui" only once, & it autocorrected to that the second (& last) time I ever used it, hah. Some words it will just stop using autocorrect for all together. I'm hoping that happens with hell. Maybe it will stop trying to force he'll on me, & I can just type the word out. I can't remember if it did on my other phones.
 
This thing is a pain in the ass, whenever I try to type hell, ****, and ****, it turns into he'll, shot and duck, I spend so much time having to erase and retype everything, the only reason why I don't turn auto correct off is because once in a while it corrects what I actually want it to.
 
Mlrollin91 said:
Because its the way you use the word. When I was a kid my mom would never let me say it.

For example if you say: What is hell? Not swearing, saying: Who the hell are you? Can be interpreted into swearing, why not just say: Who are you?
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exactly. It's not the literal word itself. It's the use of the word in context. I don't care if you use it but I guarantee you wouldn't walk around yelling it in public the same way you would any other word. If you polled 50 people I promise you at least half would say that hell is a swear word. Apple obviously sided with the half that think it is and set the dictionary as such. There are two simple fixes. Add hell to a contact so your phone uses it or turn off autocorrect. You can do what you want.
 
AbSoluTc said:
How in the world do I get my phone to learn the word "hell" and stop trying to auto correct it to "he'll"? No matter how many times I say no, that's what I want - it keeps wanting to fix it. I was under the impression it would "learn" after a while? :confused:
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Hell; I don't know.
 
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