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This was true for me until the latest iOS release. The new autocorrect is markedly better. It used to be that at least 30% of words (not even sentences!) were m

This was true for me until the latest iOS release. The new autocorrect is markedly better. It used to be that at least 30% of words (not even sentences!) were misspelled. Now it's pretty rare. I think the auto-correct on the iPhone is even better than how I type on a laptop keyboard. Pretty crazy!

lynndotpy 3y ago
This was true for me until the latest iOS release, but then it got worse for me. The inline predictions were especially problematic, but they added a toggle in the settings for it. I think this puts me in the market for a keyboard like this
- msoad 3y ago
  Sometimes I feel hacker news audience either have a very unique use case with their software/hardware or they are living in an alternative universe. The latest iOS keyboard is absolutely better than anything I've tried. I am sometimes shocked that it could autocorrect what I initially typed because it was so far off! And I have big fingers!
  - lynndotpy 3y ago
    I feel the same re: Hacker News audiences. I believe I'm very far off Apple's QA "golden path". That said, I've only used the SE and Mini iPhones, and things might be better on the phablet-style iPhones. I'd say the iOS 17 beta keyboard was the second worst mobile keyboard I've experienced since the 9-key dialpad keyboards, but there is another person in this thread for whom that was their favorite keyboard :) There is at least a lot of variety here.
k_bx 3y ago
I'm also waiting on ChatGPT-like experience, their (Whisper) text-to-speech is amazing, including my native Ukrainian.
ecshafer 3y ago
The worst part about iOS autocorrect is that it will change previous words and it drives me wild. So even though I had typed a word correctly, I am 2-3 words ahead and it decides to just change the previous word making the sentence nonsense. Also the constant autocorrection of swearing is really annoying.
- 93po 3y ago
  You can fix the swearing part if you google it
  - ecshafer 3y ago
    Having to manually white list every word you want to be able to type isn't a great solution. Androids autocorrect automatically adds words to the dictionary as you type and hit allow.
    - 93po 3y ago
      Agreed but figured I'd mention it

lynndotpy 3y ago

This was true for me until the latest iOS release, but then it got worse for me. The inline predictions were especially problematic, but they added a toggle in the settings for it. I think this puts me in the market for a keyboard like this

msoad 3y ago
Sometimes I feel hacker news audience either have a very unique use case with their software/hardware or they are living in an alternative universe. The latest iOS keyboard is absolutely better than anything I've tried. I am sometimes shocked that it could autocorrect what I initially typed because it was so far off! And I have big fingers!
- lynndotpy 3y ago
  I feel the same re: Hacker News audiences. I believe I'm very far off Apple's QA "golden path". That said, I've only used the SE and Mini iPhones, and things might be better on the phablet-style iPhones. I'd say the iOS 17 beta keyboard was the second worst mobile keyboard I've experienced since the 9-key dialpad keyboards, but there is another person in this thread for whom that was their favorite keyboard :) There is at least a lot of variety here.

k_bx 3y ago

I'm also waiting on ChatGPT-like experience, their (Whisper) text-to-speech is amazing, including my native Ukrainian.

ecshafer 3y ago

The worst part about iOS autocorrect is that it will change previous words and it drives me wild. So even though I had typed a word correctly, I am 2-3 words ahead and it decides to just change the previous word making the sentence nonsense. Also the constant autocorrection of swearing is really annoying.

93po 3y ago
You can fix the swearing part if you google it
- ecshafer 3y ago
  Having to manually white list every word you want to be able to type isn't a great solution. Androids autocorrect automatically adds words to the dictionary as you type and hit allow.
  - 93po 3y ago
    Agreed but figured I'd mention it