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I personally use the swiping keyboard on ios and it seems to detect the wrong word with an almost malicious frequency. It also randomly Capitalizes things.

devilbunny 12d ago
For some reason, the one word that it just will not let me swipe is “and”. Which is, you know, somewhat common. I get all kinds of random things instead.
- ok_dad 12d ago
  and -> Abe for me for some reason.
  - eep_social 11d ago
    you most likely have an Abe in your contacts, I don’t have an Abe but have a similar issue with a last name from mine. the behavior sort of makes sense if I squint and crane my neck around a bit but I have no idea how the weightings are so bad.
- neutronicus 12d ago
  "ABs"
  - devilbunny 11d ago
    That is common. The one that I haven’t seen lately is “Abbas”, like the Palestinian politician. Except, I don’t ever write about Middle Eastern politics. At all. But it was a favorite for a while.
- dash2 12d ago
  I can't do "is". I get "OSS" instead. I'm not even that into open source.
  - devilbunny 11d ago
    I get “is” more often than “and”, though nowhere near what I got with Swype on Android ten years ago. Considering that Microsoft bought Swype, I have no idea why SwiftKey isn’t absolutely amazing, but it isn’t.
- deepspace 11d ago
  Yes! It will give me Andy, ABE! abs, and's, anything but friggen "and"!
  - el_benhameen 11d ago
    And’s! Fucking and’s! Every goddamned time, regardless of the fact that I have never once intentionally typed and’s (until now, which probably means that it’ll now either appear constantly or never again).
  - bschwindHN 11d ago
    This drives me crazy. Sometimes I'll just put the phone down and move to a proper keyboard to type what I want. It definitely makes me use my phone less, maybe that's a good thing overall.
tom_ 12d ago
It's intriguing. Danny! Infuriating. I think it's slightly worded if you swore. No. Slightly worded. No. Slightly worse if you swipe left handed. Yes. At last.
xenospn 12d ago
I also use it all the time and I hate it very much. It almost never works right on the first try.
quasarj 11d ago
Sometimes I swipe the same word 5 times in a row and it gets it wrong every time, despite me being slower and more precise each time. I give up and type it by hand. Note: this is NOT the censorship issue, that's separate (where it will not allow you to swipe certain words or phrases AT ALL, no matter how hard you try. Like if you type "kill" it won't let you swipe "him" or "her" after it, though some other words work. There are many instances of this)
yelling_cat 11d ago
Unfortunately for us swipers, disabling slide to type on an iPhone makes typing significantly more accurate. I can only guess as to why, but after seeing anecdotal reports over the last year or so from people raving about how much better typing was with swiping disabled I finally got fed up enough to give it a shot myself. It is much, much better, to the point where I'd never re-enable slide to type until Apple finally fixes this.

devilbunny 12d ago

For some reason, the one word that it just will not let me swipe is “and”. Which is, you know, somewhat common. I get all kinds of random things instead.

ok_dad 12d ago
and -> Abe for me for some reason.
- eep_social 11d ago
  you most likely have an Abe in your contacts, I don’t have an Abe but have a similar issue with a last name from mine. the behavior sort of makes sense if I squint and crane my neck around a bit but I have no idea how the weightings are so bad.
neutronicus 12d ago
"ABs"
- devilbunny 11d ago
  That is common. The one that I haven’t seen lately is “Abbas”, like the Palestinian politician. Except, I don’t ever write about Middle Eastern politics. At all. But it was a favorite for a while.
dash2 12d ago
I can't do "is". I get "OSS" instead. I'm not even that into open source.
- devilbunny 11d ago
  I get “is” more often than “and”, though nowhere near what I got with Swype on Android ten years ago. Considering that Microsoft bought Swype, I have no idea why SwiftKey isn’t absolutely amazing, but it isn’t.
deepspace 11d ago
Yes! It will give me Andy, ABE! abs, and's, anything but friggen "and"!
- el_benhameen 11d ago
  And’s! Fucking and’s! Every goddamned time, regardless of the fact that I have never once intentionally typed and’s (until now, which probably means that it’ll now either appear constantly or never again).
- bschwindHN 11d ago
  This drives me crazy. Sometimes I'll just put the phone down and move to a proper keyboard to type what I want. It definitely makes me use my phone less, maybe that's a good thing overall.

tom_ 12d ago

It's intriguing. Danny! Infuriating. I think it's slightly worded if you swore. No. Slightly worded. No. Slightly worse if you swipe left handed. Yes. At last.

xenospn 12d ago

I also use it all the time and I hate it very much. It almost never works right on the first try.

quasarj 11d ago

Sometimes I swipe the same word 5 times in a row and it gets it wrong every time, despite me being slower and more precise each time. I give up and type it by hand. Note: this is NOT the censorship issue, that's separate (where it will not allow you to swipe certain words or phrases AT ALL, no matter how hard you try. Like if you type "kill" it won't let you swipe "him" or "her" after it, though some other words work. There are many instances of this)

yelling_cat 11d ago

Unfortunately for us swipers, disabling slide to type on an iPhone makes typing significantly more accurate. I can only guess as to why, but after seeing anecdotal reports over the last year or so from people raving about how much better typing was with swiping disabled I finally got fed up enough to give it a shot myself. It is much, much better, to the point where I'd never re-enable slide to type until Apple finally fixes this.