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You can add custom words so that your iOS device will suggest them. Go to Settings, search for Text Replacement, add a new replacement with +, enter the same w

You can add custom words so that your iOS device will suggest them. Go to Settings, search for Text Replacement, add a new replacement with +, enter the same word for both replacement and shortcut.

Griffinsauce 4y ago
This is practically helpful but asinine. The point is that these words are not "custom" or special, they should be handled like any other normal word.
- jdminhbg 4y ago
  There are many words you would not want to send in a text to your coworkers, such as when you ask them to "re jigger the Q2 results." The only question is where the line is drawn for the OS to say "it's better that I never autocorrect into this perfectly real English word."
  - Griffinsauce 4y ago
    Is the problem the specific word or the intention in your example?
- reaperducer 4y ago
  like any other normal word But they're not normal words. They're expletives. If they have their own category, they're not "normal words." iOS doesn't know a lot of the medical words I use for work, either. But I don't moan about it on social media.
  - mijowi 4y ago
    > have their own category Like adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, or any other of many word categories? They are normal words understood by everybody, if not used by everybody, unlike your medical jargon.
  - xdennis 4y ago
    It makes sense to not include all medical words because technical jargon changes all the time, but common swear words are very old. The word "fuck" is more than a millennium old and every speaker would have understood you. It's not Tim Apple's business to determine what words people are allowed to use. The idea that expletives are not normal words is wrong. Common people have always spoken plainly. They would not have called their asses "bottoms" etc.
    - adolph 4y ago
      > It's not Tim Apple's business to determine what words people are allowed to use. Given that auto-correct is a function of software then yes, word selection is part of Apple's business. There are two parts to the solution. The technical aspect is probably not at issue. The socio-political component is going to reflect mainstream corporate culture and probably not meet many corner cases. The significant choices aren't Apple's to make sense they will bow to the anathema dictates of social and political power: such as Winnie the Poo in certain Chinese contexts or Swastikas in German ones.
  - robonerd 4y ago
    All words have their own categories. There are an innumerable number of categories you can put any word into. Give me a single word that can't be put into a special category; you can't do it.
- bryanrasmussen 4y ago
  so typing an sms really quickly and having autocorrect decide that one of your misspelled words should probably be fuck just as you send it.
  - Griffinsauce 4y ago
    So what? People on the other side should most likely see from context that it's not what you wanted to say.
  - pdimitar 4y ago
    Yes. Truly a world-ending possibility!
xdennis 4y ago
"Fuck" is not a custom word. It was first attested in 772 AD. It's no way to treat adults.
- skohan 4y ago
  It's also probably one of the most uttered 1000 words if I had to venture a guess.
- shagie 4y ago
  The question is not is it a custom word or when it entered into the English language. The question is "as a parent, would you buy an {x} phone for a young family member that suggests profanity?" As an adult, you can go in and add the words that you want to use yourself... however, do you want profanity to be a default suggested word for children in your household? Realizing that the demographics of HN tends to the more technically literate, removing the all the words you don't want your children accidentally sending to their teachers wouldn't be a big issue, however as most of the population isn't as technically literate the "it just works" mentality for digital appliances would mean that most of the population that has a child who may use the phone would likely opt to one that is more proper and correct in its limited word choice.
  - Dah00n 4y ago
    >"as a parent, would you buy an {x} phone for a young family member that suggests profanity?" Kids have Android phones, so yes, it is clearly the case that most parents have no problem with this.
    - shagie 4y ago
      Are there any Android phones where the default is to autocorrect and suggest profanity? Not "can you go in and unblock profanity suggestions" ( https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-android-offensive-word-filter https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-android-offensive... ) but rather "is this the default"?
  - TheCoelacanth 4y ago

You can add custom words so that your iOS device will suggest them. Go to Settings, search for Text Replacement, add a new replacement with +, enter the same word for both replacement and shortcut.

Griffinsauce 4y ago

This is practically helpful but asinine. The point is that these words are not "custom" or special, they should be handled like any other normal word.

jdminhbg 4y ago
There are many words you would not want to send in a text to your coworkers, such as when you ask them to "re jigger the Q2 results." The only question is where the line is drawn for the OS to say "it's better that I never autocorrect into this perfectly real English word."
- Griffinsauce 4y ago
  Is the problem the specific word or the intention in your example?
reaperducer 4y ago
like any other normal word But they're not normal words. They're expletives. If they have their own category, they're not "normal words." iOS doesn't know a lot of the medical words I use for work, either. But I don't moan about it on social media.
- mijowi 4y ago
  > have their own category Like adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, or any other of many word categories? They are normal words understood by everybody, if not used by everybody, unlike your medical jargon.
- xdennis 4y ago
  It makes sense to not include all medical words because technical jargon changes all the time, but common swear words are very old. The word "fuck" is more than a millennium old and every speaker would have understood you. It's not Tim Apple's business to determine what words people are allowed to use. The idea that expletives are not normal words is wrong. Common people have always spoken plainly. They would not have called their asses "bottoms" etc.
  - adolph 4y ago
    > It's not Tim Apple's business to determine what words people are allowed to use. Given that auto-correct is a function of software then yes, word selection is part of Apple's business. There are two parts to the solution. The technical aspect is probably not at issue. The socio-political component is going to reflect mainstream corporate culture and probably not meet many corner cases. The significant choices aren't Apple's to make sense they will bow to the anathema dictates of social and political power: such as Winnie the Poo in certain Chinese contexts or Swastikas in German ones.
- robonerd 4y ago
  All words have their own categories. There are an innumerable number of categories you can put any word into. Give me a single word that can't be put into a special category; you can't do it.
bryanrasmussen 4y ago
so typing an sms really quickly and having autocorrect decide that one of your misspelled words should probably be fuck just as you send it.
- Griffinsauce 4y ago
  So what? People on the other side should most likely see from context that it's not what you wanted to say.
- pdimitar 4y ago
  Yes. Truly a world-ending possibility!

xdennis 4y ago

"Fuck" is not a custom word. It was first attested in 772 AD. It's no way to treat adults.

skohan 4y ago
It's also probably one of the most uttered 1000 words if I had to venture a guess.
shagie 4y ago
The question is not is it a custom word or when it entered into the English language. The question is "as a parent, would you buy an {x} phone for a young family member that suggests profanity?" As an adult, you can go in and add the words that you want to use yourself... however, do you want profanity to be a default suggested word for children in your household? Realizing that the demographics of HN tends to the more technically literate, removing the all the words you don't want your children accidentally sending to their teachers wouldn't be a big issue, however as most of the population isn't as technically literate the "it just works" mentality for digital appliances would mean that most of the population that has a child who may use the phone would likely opt to one that is more proper and correct in its limited word choice.
- Dah00n 4y ago
  >"as a parent, would you buy an {x} phone for a young family member that suggests profanity?" Kids have Android phones, so yes, it is clearly the case that most parents have no problem with this.
  - shagie 4y ago
    Are there any Android phones where the default is to autocorrect and suggest profanity? Not "can you go in and unblock profanity suggestions" ( https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-android-offensive-word-filter https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-android-offensive... ) but rather "is this the default"?
- TheCoelacanth 4y ago