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If you think Siri is bad, give Apple autocorrect a spin!

ultrarunner 4y ago
My phone has somehow decided that ‘20’ should be changed to ‘2.0’. This is the only combination of numbers to do this (so far).
deepspace 4y ago
Oh dear $deity. Why does it insist on capitalizing "and" in the middle of a sentence?
- heleninboodler 4y ago
  On my phone, I've somehow gotten into a situation where I can't type "butt" without it autocorrecting it to "Butt".
  - hombre_fatal 4y ago
    There needs to be a way to reset this kind of learned behavior. I must have accidentally corrected "and" into "abs" once because now my iPhone always corrects "and" into "abs" when I use swipe gestures. "Bob abs Katie are here". Since I never notice it until I send the message, it's becoming so cocksure about the correction that there's no going back.
    - m463 4y ago
      There is someone else I know that always texts me with "abs" instead of "and" I think there was a dictionary you can reset. EDIT: "Settings > General > Reset; Tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary"
      - hombre_fatal 4y ago
        Thanks!
      - heleninboodler 4y ago
        Minor correction: Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset, then tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary on mine, at least. Apple does enjoy moving these things around from time to time.
        sitkack 3y ago
        Not going down that part of the settings tree, that looks really dangerous.
      - lostlogin 4y ago
        I wish you could selectively edit it. I use “The” (obviously), Te (Māori) and “TE” (echo time, I use MR scanners a lot). Everything is a mess when I type.
  - brookst 4y ago
    I have a similar problem, but it is literally every English word that is also a common name. I send texts like "I Will run by the store and May grab dinner for tomorrow, Hope to be home by 7". It's infuriating.
  - majormajor 4y ago
    "well" and "we'll" here
    - mikelward 4y ago
      Android GBoard turns "were" into "we're". "Ill" into "I'll". "Its" into "it's". Makes me look illiterate with all the extra apostrophes.
rootusrootus 4y ago
We used to laugh about autocorrect mistakes, but over the past few years it has gotten exponentially worse. Instead of just screwing up the word I'm typing, it'll decide I meant a different phrase and change the previous word too. If you're not saying exactly what it expects you to, it can be extremely frustrating. I've started turning many of the autocorrect-related features off entirely.
devilbunny 4y ago
Just try their swiping. I use it. I don't like it. (I haven't found anything else that's much better, and that's with a fair amount of SwiftKey use; nothing beats now-dead Swype.) Routinely - routinely - I try to swipe out "and". Often, I get "abs" (I don't work out, let alone write about it), but the most common and bizarre one is "Abbas". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian president, and I don't write about him at all, let alone enough to justify having that be a common word that comes up. I realize that with put/out/or it's just not easy to distinguish. But I'll live with that. Abbas?
- michaelt 4y ago
  I assume some users are using new names on a daily basis. If you run a plumbing business, you may never have texted Abbas before - but if Abbas asks you for a quote, you'll be doing it today. Although I agree that people write 'and' far more often. I assume they have some sort of special-case inclusion/handling for names in swipe dictionaries - it'd be embarrassing if your swipe keyboard recognised George and Donald as words, but didn't recognise Barrack.
  - devilbunny 4y ago
    But I'd just punch in the letters individually just as I would for any unusual word. Misinterpreting "and" is like how Swype used to put in "née" for "me". Look, maybe I'm not as precise as I should be, but one is a word that people use a couple of times a year, and the other a couple of times an hour. And "Barack" isn't the most common spelling. I wouldn't expect it to know "Fillmore" either. Shouldn't frequency of use matter? Why go to all this effort and not put some kind of weighting on its word choices?

My phone has somehow decided that ‘20’ should be changed to ‘2.0’. This is the only combination of numbers to do this (so far).

deepspace 4y ago

Oh dear $deity. Why does it insist on capitalizing "and" in the middle of a sentence?

heleninboodler 4y ago
On my phone, I've somehow gotten into a situation where I can't type "butt" without it autocorrecting it to "Butt".
- hombre_fatal 4y ago
  There needs to be a way to reset this kind of learned behavior. I must have accidentally corrected "and" into "abs" once because now my iPhone always corrects "and" into "abs" when I use swipe gestures. "Bob abs Katie are here". Since I never notice it until I send the message, it's becoming so cocksure about the correction that there's no going back.
  - m463 4y ago
    There is someone else I know that always texts me with "abs" instead of "and" I think there was a dictionary you can reset. EDIT: "Settings > General > Reset; Tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary"
    - hombre_fatal 4y ago
      Thanks!
    - heleninboodler 4y ago
      Minor correction: Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset, then tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary on mine, at least. Apple does enjoy moving these things around from time to time.
      - sitkack 3y ago
        Not going down that part of the settings tree, that looks really dangerous.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      I wish you could selectively edit it. I use “The” (obviously), Te (Māori) and “TE” (echo time, I use MR scanners a lot). Everything is a mess when I type.
- brookst 4y ago
  I have a similar problem, but it is literally every English word that is also a common name. I send texts like "I Will run by the store and May grab dinner for tomorrow, Hope to be home by 7". It's infuriating.
- majormajor 4y ago
  "well" and "we'll" here
  - mikelward 4y ago
    Android GBoard turns "were" into "we're". "Ill" into "I'll". "Its" into "it's". Makes me look illiterate with all the extra apostrophes.

rootusrootus 4y ago

We used to laugh about autocorrect mistakes, but over the past few years it has gotten exponentially worse. Instead of just screwing up the word I'm typing, it'll decide I meant a different phrase and change the previous word too. If you're not saying exactly what it expects you to, it can be extremely frustrating. I've started turning many of the autocorrect-related features off entirely.

devilbunny 4y ago

Just try their swiping. I use it. I don't like it. (I haven't found anything else that's much better, and that's with a fair amount of SwiftKey use; nothing beats now-dead Swype.) Routinely - routinely - I try to swipe out "and". Often, I get "abs" (I don't work out, let alone write about it), but the most common and bizarre one is "Abbas". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian president, and I don't write about him at all, let alone enough to justify having that be a common word that comes up. I realize that with put/out/or it's just not easy to distinguish. But I'll live with that. Abbas?

michaelt 4y ago
I assume some users are using new names on a daily basis. If you run a plumbing business, you may never have texted Abbas before - but if Abbas asks you for a quote, you'll be doing it today. Although I agree that people write 'and' far more often. I assume they have some sort of special-case inclusion/handling for names in swipe dictionaries - it'd be embarrassing if your swipe keyboard recognised George and Donald as words, but didn't recognise Barrack.
- devilbunny 4y ago
  But I'd just punch in the letters individually just as I would for any unusual word. Misinterpreting "and" is like how Swype used to put in "née" for "me". Look, maybe I'm not as precise as I should be, but one is a word that people use a couple of times a year, and the other a couple of times an hour. And "Barack" isn't the most common spelling. I wouldn't expect it to know "Fillmore" either. Shouldn't frequency of use matter? Why go to all this effort and not put some kind of weighting on its word choices?