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What's up with Auto Correct nowadays?

Minimoose 360

Minimoose 360

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Did I miss something? Did Apple alter it in an update? It's seriously been trolling me the past few weeks. It no longer helps me type, it actually hinders me. I'll spell words correctly, and it changes them to something else. It also seems like the hit box for canceling a change has gotten smaller. And it seems like my dictionary of custom phrases was erased...I use a lot of "inside joke" words, and it simply won't learn them anymore

It's so ****ing annoying, I had to turn it off. Did I miss a big thing or is everyone else suffering?
 
Auto-correct use to be amazing when the iPhone originally came out, but now it seems that Apple's made some changes that don't allow it to work as well as it did :/
 
Yeah, it was trolling me today too. It keeps changing the name "Jerry" to "Kerry", so apparently my phone is a democrat. And it keeps changing the word "eating" to "dating", so it wants me to date my dinner. Not sure how thats going to work.
 
Dang! That Jerry to Kerry one is so weird. You can create a new note and type out Jerry and it immediately autocorrects to Kerry.

However while typing this message in mobile safari it wasn't changing Jerry, even though autocorrect is definitely still running and making (helpful) changes.

Why would autocorrect behave differently in different apps?
 
I agree with everything here. Apparently Apple has something against the word "so" because it is automatically corrected to "do" every time I type it. I reset the dictionary and the issue is still there.
 
When typing "Ricky Gervais" it gets autocorrected to "Ricky get AIDS"

made for some unintentionally interesting conversation
 
I am not sure if it got worse, or if it simply hasn't really gotten much better over the last 5 years. I have definitely used keyboards with autocorrect on other mobile OS's that do a far better job. It's a shame. iOS was the king of virtual keyboards for a long time.
 
The thing I hate the most is when you spell a word wrong and it can't figure out what you are talking about. If you keep trying it will remember the wrong way then you are totally screwed. Why would it automatically remember incorrect spelling?!? Drives me nuts!
 
cynics said:
The thing I hate the most is when you spell a word wrong and it can't figure out what you are talking about. If you keep trying it will remember the wrong way then you are totally screwed. Why would it automatically remember incorrect spelling?!? Drives me nuts!
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If you keep spelling something that way, perhaps it thinks it's the name of someone you know, a business, an address, or even some new word or slang you choose to use with your friends. If you know it's a word you often misspell, go into the settings and force it to change to the proper spelling whenever you type it wrong.

Auto Correct isn't perfect, but there's no reason to complain over things you can change.
 
lordofthereef said:
I am not sure if it got worse, or if it simply hasn't really gotten much better over the last 5 years. I have definitely used keyboards with autocorrect on other mobile OS's that do a far better job. It's a shame. iOS was the king of virtual keyboards for a long time.
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This.

It's likely my imagination, but I remember typing on the 3GS was so much better. It may just be because iOS' keyboard was the best at the time, or I was a slower typer back then.

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Another thing that drives me nuts is that the keyboard seems to always miss the last letter of a relatively long word, will know what word you mean, but still won't autocorrect to it. For example, when I type the word "instead" it'll miss the 'd' and come out as "instea" yet it won't autocorrect it, which is bizarre because if you tap on it, it'll actually suggest "instead."

I wish it was smart enough to just realize that's the word I want. There are many other instances of this happening with other words.
 
i have a problem with autocorrect probably 2% of the time. the other 98% of the time it's awesome.
 
Ke1ington said:
I agree with everything here. Apparently Apple has something against the word "so" because it is automatically corrected to "do" every time I type it. I reset the dictionary and the issue is still there.
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I had that same problem for weeks. Eventually I gave up and restored the phone & set it up as new. The problem seems to be gone... for now.

Very, very, very obnoxious and annoying of autocorrect to correct "so" to "do" w/o any training, among the other things it was getting a-backwards.
 
I agree with the OP, auto-correct is definitely less accurate than it used to be (I've had an iPhone since 2007). It often corrects words that are spelled correctly, though I can sometimes see how the one it corrects it to might be more common in general usage though.

It doesn't seem to do a good job learning words anymore either, there's words that I correct every day and it still hasn't learned them. I've considered turning off auto-correct but I'd say it (just barely) helps more than it hinders, especially when I'm trying to write a text without really looking at the screen (while in class, walking, etc).
 
I've always been a huge critic of the iOS keyboard. Ditto the Gingerbread keyboard, except ICS has made leaps and bounds since GB (I now consider stock ICS keyboard better than iOS').

If anyone needs anymore proof as to how broken the iOS keyboard and auto correction are, they need only look as far as the slew of "Damn You iPhone Auto Correct" type websites that are floating around the web. There are tons of them.
 
cyks said:
If you keep spelling something that way, perhaps it thinks it's the name of someone you know, a business, an address, or even some new word or slang you choose to use with your friends. If you know it's a word you often misspell, go into the settings and force it to change to the proper spelling whenever you type it wrong.

Auto Correct isn't perfect, but there's no reason to complain over things you can change.
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My point was it automatically doing this.

Excuse my ignorance but how do I change a single word to force its proper setting. I know how to do it with Android but for the life of me I can't find the setting. I found reset keyboard dictionary....
 
Minimoose 360 said:
Did I miss something? Did Apple alter it in an update? It's seriously been trolling me the past few weeks. It no longer helps me type, it actually hinders me. I'll spell words correctly, and it changes them to something else. It also seems like the hit box for canceling a change has gotten smaller. And it seems like my dictionary of custom phrases was erased...I use a lot of "inside joke" words, and it simply won't learn them anymore

It's so ****ing annoying, I had to turn it off. Did I miss a big thing or is everyone else suffering?
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Haha wow, I'm glad it's not just me then, deff having the same **** going on.

I feel like I'm waiting for a "you mad?" to start showing up on it's own sometimes.
 
Ezmode said:
When typing "Ricky Gervais" it gets autocorrected to "Ricky get AIDS"

made for some unintentionally interesting conversation
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LMAO


My favorite irritating thing Autocorrect does is change "hell" to "he'll" or when it changes a word I use on a regular basis to something I don't even know what the meaning is let alone ever used it.


Oh, and capitalizing internet (ie: Internet). Why on earth does Apple do this? Sure its a pro-noun, but its in common usage to just say "internet".
 
I think the iPhone touchscreen itself has gone to hell. When i type, i press letters i know for sure i didn't press. Its super annoying. Typing on my first gen ipod touch was so much easier than thyping on my iPhone 4S.
 
cynics said:
My point was it automatically doing this.

Excuse my ignorance but how do I change a single word to force its proper setting. I know how to do it with Android but for the life of me I can't find the setting. I found reset keyboard dictionary....
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Minhimalism said:
It constantly corrects my "Brb" to "Ben" and I'm getting really tired of that ****, haha.
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Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Add Shortcuts

Yes, it's a step we shouldn't have to make- especially when the software is supposed to learn our words and writing habits, but adding shortcuts is an easy enough fix to force it to say what you want it to.
 
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