I remember the good ole days when autocorrect used to be helpful and fixing misspellings. These days, the super aggressive feature is making me look like a complete idiot; taking away important words in sentences, or replacing what I mean to type with totally unrelated words. Is there any way to improve it without it sabotaging it even more?
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What is up with Autocorrect these days?
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sorry I can't make out a word you just said
Haha. Good.
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On my iPhone it would not even cap the P until I added "iPhone" as a keyboard shortcut. That's pathetic. "iPad" and "MacBook" work.
Been having all kinds of issues with iOS 8 since the initial release through 8.0.2.
And yes, auto correct is certainly one of them. The words that are correct sometimes get corrected to incorrect words while others which would be a simple mistake (ie. you) are being left incorrect (ie. uou). Very frustrated and disappointed with Apple these days. Totally 'un-Apple' of them.
And yes, auto correct is certainly one of them. The words that are correct sometimes get corrected to incorrect words while others which would be a simple mistake (ie. you) are being left incorrect (ie. uou). Very frustrated and disappointed with Apple these days. Totally 'un-Apple' of them.
A number of people have been complaining in iOS 7 days that autocorrect got worse with iOS 7.
Is it not the case that you can now download 3rd party keyboards and therefore try alternative correction techniques?
That's not remotely as bad as it correcting "the" to "tje". What the heck is tje?!?!?!
Should've prolly a spelled the words right yourself. Now it thinks the misspelled words are words. Only have yourself to blame really.
Got to settings > general > reset > keyboard.
Gosh short memories everyone huh? Autocorrect was TERRIBLE in the first versions of iOS 7. It slowly got better and was great in 7.1.2. Now we're just back to 7.0 days. I don't know why this happens with each major version of iOS, but it does. I suspect it will be better eventually if history is any guide.
Well done for pointing out the obvious. How does that negate from the fact that it's spelling dictionary words incorrectly?
It's a well known fact that it's rubbish, get over it.
Wait, wait, wait. Can you read or you no have logic? Here;
If the OS learns wrong words that means you can type in names without it correcting you. You can also type words of a different language. Now just don't spell the words wrong (you have suggestions) or reset the dictionary OR don't complain about something that is clearly your fault. Yes, not knowing how to spell something enough that the OS learns it is your fault. Or maybe your schools¿
Now, of course it's not great. I recently reset my dictionary and it's frustrating. It doesn't correct words to wrong spellings though.
Oh most definitely. It's more finicky now. But blaming Apple for misspelled words he misspells is stupid.
What's happening is that it's become more "flexible" in its learning. Society today (mostly today's youth) just loves to misspell words. "ur right" "I needz dat new fone"... crap like that, so I think they are just allowing any word that someone overrides to be stored as an "actual" word to appease the youth.
Personally I think they should leave it strict, or allow a separate "slang" dictionary/keyboard for the intentional illiterates to use.
