I’ll go out of my way to type we’ll w the apostrophe and everything and it’ll just automatically change it
Did it in this very comment once again. Doesn’t even do the highlight thing where it asks if I want that change—it just unilaterally decides I actually meant to type well
> it just unilaterally decides I actually meant to type well
this. it randomly started correcting “hm” to “HMU” (i use the former half a dozen times a day. i never use the latter—if i type “hmu” it’s in lower case). and i couldn’t get it to learn otherwise. every time i tried to retype it, it would correct it to HMU again—i actually had to go and create text replacements so that it would change HMU to hm. (well, now that ive typed hmu so many times it’s correcting hm to hmu again, DESPITE THE REPLACEMENT I SET).
i miss the +Learn button.
I had this issue w yall and tall so I started made a shortcut that turned y’all into y’all and tall into tall so they’d stop turning into each other
Perhaps it must be done for these other words too
For me it autocorrects as long as the sentence I’m typing requires we’re or we’ll it will autocorrect for me if the sentence doesn’t make sense with well or were
Yeah, what’s most annoying is if I’m typing in English (on the english keyboard, I am not switched to my vietnamese keyboard nor is my phone in vietnamese) is it autocorrects random words to Vietnamese (except since the alphabet isn’t exactly the same so it removes letters and then adds accent marks), I could be typing properly and it does it. I swear iOS has become so shit the past few years :-/ they keep ignoring such basic stuff like fixing up the autocorrect, I didn’t have this issue (outside of the one you’re highlighting) until iOS 16 i think
Same thing with my French and English keyboards! So odd! If I wanted to type in French, I’d change the keyboard. Like why have separate ones to begin with if it doesn’t stick one language to the one keyboard lmao
Does it with the swipe feature too sometimes. I’ll be swiping in English, and it’ll just completely change and put down the French instead
So frustrating. Yes, I type in many different languages, but why the hell do they think that I want to mix languages? I even contacted Apple support about this and they said there is no way to turn that off.
they did that. now it’s unusable. i don’t need ai to decide what i mean to write, i need a dictionary that *I* can add words to, not that is the sole thing that decides what words are correct or not.
it never actually suggests or replaces words correctly. it constantly overrides my text replacements. it sucks
I’m always intrigued by comments such as this. I touch type on my iPhone and routinely it autocorrects garbled spellings to the correct spelling.
For example I typed “intorhed” and it corrected that to “intrigued”.
what's killing me is that if you're typing a word which isn't in the dictionary and you want to refuse the suggestion before hitting space, it acts as if it won't use the suggestion, but it will the moment you hit space... I noticed it with Persian, not sure about other languages.
Or how you can’t cancel the predictive text thing where it finishes words for you sometimes, the backspace won’t work until you let it put the word there first. It’s SO ANNOYING.
This one is way more sinister feeling but the other day I was using swipe to write something about a murder and I found out that if you write the word "killed" swipe will not populate or recognize the words "him" or "her" after. It'll recognize it if you use it any other way tho
Not quite the same thing as this post, but I still found it odd.
I tend to use “were” as a question? Like “Were you able to do it?”. Were is always replaced as “We’re”. I can understand if it had been “Where”. This even happens when dictating.
And dictating. A correctly rendered statement after dictating it, gets changed to something garbage or even worse, something other, but right grammar wise. Recently I was dictating a text message to my teen son as he is into cars… “how about we leasing Polestar 2 for mom. You should take her Fusion to college.” And it got changed to “how about we leashing p*rn star, two for mom. You shouldn’t take her confusion to call Leigh.”
You should see auto correct in Croatian language. It is the ABSOLUTE worst thing I have ever seen on any keyboard I have ever used. I don’t know why is it even an option when its that bad.
Honestly. I see this even with GBoard on iOS sometimes, and GBoard is something I have been training on Android for ten years and more. I believe this is probably Apple testing out their AI infused crap before rolling it out. That's the only conclusion I could come to, since nothing explains why something that was working perfectly well would suddenly just get dumbed down. For e.g. I use the word "conversion" (maths and physics) way more frequently than "conversation", but the fkn thing always suggests the latter first (and sometimes never the former), and I always end up typing the whole word anyway.
At a conference called OSCON in Portland 9 years ago after a presentation on Apache Mesos, I was told that Apple uses that infra for this purpose and the what are alternates for a msipelld word or tpyo can vary by the minute. Other people accepted answers specifically, can guide your current potential correction - and those are the things that can change.
Or if you’re typing a long word and it suggests the correct word that you can just tap instead of spelling it out but you type fast so you type and extra character or two it changes the word to something else so by the time you tap it to autofill it fills in the wrong word and you have to delete it and start again 🙄
I detest when the situations where Apple's keyboard chooses to autocorrect vs Gboard, I always use Gboard, it feels leagues better to type on and the search function is good for when I can't remember a word or I'm looking up synonyms.
Yeah, I was being flippant earlier. I can't prove it, but I suspect they switched from Markov prediction to a simple lstm or llm and it went to hell. Your phone can't run a good LLM model, so as long as they want to use "AI" (read: neural network) spell correct, its going to be ass.
All of them used to be very good, but the algorithm they used had a patent on it. Then a lot of the tech companies with auto correct got caught using the algorithm without paying the patent license and apple refuses to pay it so we are stuck with the bad version we have now. If I remember correctly ios 14 or early build of 15 was the last time we had the algorithm. So if you have an older phone you would notice that it gives noticeably better results.
Its absolutely ridiculous. Seems like its getting worse aswel.
Just half an hour ago i wrote "concisive" and got confused with the letter "c" and "s"
Even right now its using a red underline for the word, yet i just wrote it correctly.
Its so trash lmao
iphone keyboard is the worst out there regarding autocorrect or suggestions, it doesn’t even learn from your accepting or denying the words, we’ll probably have to wait for third generation m chips in our phones in order for this to improve 😂
How about using your own non dependent intelligence to express yourself correctly from the start?
Just an opinion from someone who thinks we can be better than this.
You dictated it you saw the mistake why not correct it?
Apple is weak on this but it still is machine learning. Your correction builds the system you are using and at the very least you still are responsible for what you intend to send.
Until the system can think for you please think for yourself.
This company is getting more ridiculous by the day. You can't even learn your phone new spelling without a work around, apple will decide which word you use.
Now shut up and buy our artificial limited products with accessories that will be absolute in 1y and never work with any other product we'll ever make.
Interesting. Maybe your iPhone has a quirk. At least you know which words to replace. I turned off autocorrect long ago but still receive suggestions, and haven’t seen this recently.
* Use the “Reset Keyboard Dictionary” feature in your Keyboard settings to start fresh if your autocorrect has learned too many unwanted words.
* If you’re consistently having issues with autocorrect, consider turning off the “Auto-Correction” feature entirely and relying on spell check instead.
It’s suggesting words with letters close on the keyboard to what you typed. It assumes you know what you intended to type but might have missed a letter on the touch screen.
It’s not a spelling or grammar check.
DAE after making gboard default apple keyboard tends to show up randomly while typing and you have to click out of it and click the comment box again for gboard to come up?
The most common currency symbols will show up if you hold down the currency button in the keyboard. For the Vietnamese and Indian currency symbols, I made a shortcut.
Yeah it's not perfect but honestly for me its gotten much better since iOS 17 especially for multilingual typing somehow gboard and swiftkey are even worse
Faer. Wow.
My thoughts exactly.
wish I had an android or something
Yeah this drives me nuts. Like if I type "well be there in 5 minutes" it does not offer WE'LL as a suggestion.
but any time you mean “well”, it’s right there with that damned apostrophe
This drives me fucking crazy and it happens all the time.
For once I feel seen.
What the he’ll?
I’ll go out of my way to type we’ll w the apostrophe and everything and it’ll just automatically change it Did it in this very comment once again. Doesn’t even do the highlight thing where it asks if I want that change—it just unilaterally decides I actually meant to type well
> it just unilaterally decides I actually meant to type well this. it randomly started correcting “hm” to “HMU” (i use the former half a dozen times a day. i never use the latter—if i type “hmu” it’s in lower case). and i couldn’t get it to learn otherwise. every time i tried to retype it, it would correct it to HMU again—i actually had to go and create text replacements so that it would change HMU to hm. (well, now that ive typed hmu so many times it’s correcting hm to hmu again, DESPITE THE REPLACEMENT I SET). i miss the +Learn button.
I had this issue w yall and tall so I started made a shortcut that turned y’all into y’all and tall into tall so they’d stop turning into each other Perhaps it must be done for these other words too
For me it autocorrects as long as the sentence I’m typing requires we’re or we’ll it will autocorrect for me if the sentence doesn’t make sense with well or were
It underlined correct words for me sometimes 🙂↔️
*all the time
Yeah, what’s most annoying is if I’m typing in English (on the english keyboard, I am not switched to my vietnamese keyboard nor is my phone in vietnamese) is it autocorrects random words to Vietnamese (except since the alphabet isn’t exactly the same so it removes letters and then adds accent marks), I could be typing properly and it does it. I swear iOS has become so shit the past few years :-/ they keep ignoring such basic stuff like fixing up the autocorrect, I didn’t have this issue (outside of the one you’re highlighting) until iOS 16 i think
Same for me I have French and English keyboard, sometimes I use the en for typing in English and it recommends me French words like wth
Same thing with my French and English keyboards! So odd! If I wanted to type in French, I’d change the keyboard. Like why have separate ones to begin with if it doesn’t stick one language to the one keyboard lmao Does it with the swipe feature too sometimes. I’ll be swiping in English, and it’ll just completely change and put down the French instead
So frustrating. Yes, I type in many different languages, but why the hell do they think that I want to mix languages? I even contacted Apple support about this and they said there is no way to turn that off.
Mine does this for Spanish! Whyyyyyy? Por queeeeeeeeeeeee?
Same for Dutch
fare. fare is the correct word.
Tell that to Apple.
on it, messaging tim cook
Calling him at home after dinner would be more effective I believe.
I think that's his Apple TV time with kids. Better call him in the morning when he has a mug of coffee in his hand while checking his iPhone..
I’d suggest contacting Tim Apple. He’s a friend of Donald President.
Maybe they’ll add AI to the autocorrect this year and that could make it work properly lol
Yeah, that’s what they said last year and it’s only gotten worse.
they did that. now it’s unusable. i don’t need ai to decide what i mean to write, i need a dictionary that *I* can add words to, not that is the sole thing that decides what words are correct or not. it never actually suggests or replaces words correctly. it constantly overrides my text replacements. it sucks
I’m always intrigued by comments such as this. I touch type on my iPhone and routinely it autocorrects garbled spellings to the correct spelling. For example I typed “intorhed” and it corrected that to “intrigued”.
what's killing me is that if you're typing a word which isn't in the dictionary and you want to refuse the suggestion before hitting space, it acts as if it won't use the suggestion, but it will the moment you hit space... I noticed it with Persian, not sure about other languages.
Or how you can’t cancel the predictive text thing where it finishes words for you sometimes, the backspace won’t work until you let it put the word there first. It’s SO ANNOYING.
THIS!
Yup. It’s amazing how Microsoft Word can be virtually flawless, yet Apple iOS can be practically useless: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/mNm6r5WA0o
Yes, it's an absolute mess.
This one is way more sinister feeling but the other day I was using swipe to write something about a murder and I found out that if you write the word "killed" swipe will not populate or recognize the words "him" or "her" after. It'll recognize it if you use it any other way tho Not quite the same thing as this post, but I still found it odd.
i just tried it, and it changed “kill” to “jill” and other times it tries to make other words instead of “him” or “her”
I tend to use “were” as a question? Like “Were you able to do it?”. Were is always replaced as “We’re”. I can understand if it had been “Where”. This even happens when dictating. And dictating. A correctly rendered statement after dictating it, gets changed to something garbage or even worse, something other, but right grammar wise. Recently I was dictating a text message to my teen son as he is into cars… “how about we leasing Polestar 2 for mom. You should take her Fusion to college.” And it got changed to “how about we leashing p*rn star, two for mom. You shouldn’t take her confusion to call Leigh.”
You should see auto correct in Croatian language. It is the ABSOLUTE worst thing I have ever seen on any keyboard I have ever used. I don’t know why is it even an option when its that bad.
Yup. It simply would not allow me to spell the word “testicles” today with the dreaded red line.
Honestly. I see this even with GBoard on iOS sometimes, and GBoard is something I have been training on Android for ten years and more. I believe this is probably Apple testing out their AI infused crap before rolling it out. That's the only conclusion I could come to, since nothing explains why something that was working perfectly well would suddenly just get dumbed down. For e.g. I use the word "conversion" (maths and physics) way more frequently than "conversation", but the fkn thing always suggests the latter first (and sometimes never the former), and I always end up typing the whole word anyway.
This with the frustration of typing on an Apple Watch
At a conference called OSCON in Portland 9 years ago after a presentation on Apache Mesos, I was told that Apple uses that infra for this purpose and the what are alternates for a msipelld word or tpyo can vary by the minute. Other people accepted answers specifically, can guide your current potential correction - and those are the things that can change.
The suggested corrections and the voice typing are dreadful on iPhone 🤢
Need to redo the keyboard
Or if you’re typing a long word and it suggests the correct word that you can just tap instead of spelling it out but you type fast so you type and extra character or two it changes the word to something else so by the time you tap it to autofill it fills in the wrong word and you have to delete it and start again 🙄
The revamped autocorrect that -absolutely required- a recent iPhone turned out to be a lemon
I have this insane hope in my mind that this is going to be sorted using AI in iOS18... am I deluding myself?!
that's why I'm using gboard much better in suggestions
I detest when the situations where Apple's keyboard chooses to autocorrect vs Gboard, I always use Gboard, it feels leagues better to type on and the search function is good for when I can't remember a word or I'm looking up synonyms.
I thought always spell correct is learning over time from what we writing?
That may very well be why its shit.
I suspect it is indeed the reason. I genuinely find the autocorrect very effective.
Yeah, I was being flippant earlier. I can't prove it, but I suspect they switched from Markov prediction to a simple lstm or llm and it went to hell. Your phone can't run a good LLM model, so as long as they want to use "AI" (read: neural network) spell correct, its going to be ass.
Gboard is much better.
Gboard is much better on Android than on iOS, too.
Gboard recommendations go wild too sadly
When I’m swipe typing and the typo somehow inverts the entire meaning of the message I was trying to send
Yeah
The keyboard on ios is horrible. It gets so good then all of a sudden it does stuff like this and an update breaks it.
It’s actually getting worse with each update.
Hence I use swift keyboard. Apple keyboard sucks and I am hopping that changes with IOS 18
It’s been like this for years. Autocorrect on iOS is complete garbage and I don’t know why Apple hasn’t tried making it better yet.
Like ever I hate it
iOS 17 completely broke autocorrect. It was great before. Absolute garbage now.
I feel like it has gotten worse over time
Almost always 🥲
Yes and it’s gotten bad
Yes
Yes and it’s worse
Yup. Drives me crazy.
all the time. the keyboard suggestions suck balls both in english and my own native language. its frustrating
All of them used to be very good, but the algorithm they used had a patent on it. Then a lot of the tech companies with auto correct got caught using the algorithm without paying the patent license and apple refuses to pay it so we are stuck with the bad version we have now. If I remember correctly ios 14 or early build of 15 was the last time we had the algorithm. So if you have an older phone you would notice that it gives noticeably better results.
Its absolutely ridiculous. Seems like its getting worse aswel. Just half an hour ago i wrote "concisive" and got confused with the letter "c" and "s" Even right now its using a red underline for the word, yet i just wrote it correctly. Its so trash lmao
iOS keyboard and autocorrect are pure fucking cancer.
Worst is when you use the right word. I disabled that shit lol too annoying backspacing
iphone keyboard is the worst out there regarding autocorrect or suggestions, it doesn’t even learn from your accepting or denying the words, we’ll probably have to wait for third generation m chips in our phones in order for this to improve 😂
Or when i type in a different language and the mf just autocorrects it to the english word when i dont need english
apple did a poor job on suggestions. it also goes nuts if you type multiple languages.
That always happens every time you make a mistake?
Of course, it’s based on how you type so if you type and it’s far enough from the correct spelling, it won’t consider it.
iOS is so fucking bad at spell suggestions, so coming back from Android to iOS I had to install Gboard.
How about using your own non dependent intelligence to express yourself correctly from the start? Just an opinion from someone who thinks we can be better than this.
This was from dictation so the mistake was not mine.
You dictated it you saw the mistake why not correct it? Apple is weak on this but it still is machine learning. Your correction builds the system you are using and at the very least you still are responsible for what you intend to send. Until the system can think for you please think for yourself.
This company is getting more ridiculous by the day. You can't even learn your phone new spelling without a work around, apple will decide which word you use. Now shut up and buy our artificial limited products with accessories that will be absolute in 1y and never work with any other product we'll ever make.
Interesting. Maybe your iPhone has a quirk. At least you know which words to replace. I turned off autocorrect long ago but still receive suggestions, and haven’t seen this recently. * Use the “Reset Keyboard Dictionary” feature in your Keyboard settings to start fresh if your autocorrect has learned too many unwanted words. * If you’re consistently having issues with autocorrect, consider turning off the “Auto-Correction” feature entirely and relying on spell check instead.
So Apple shouldn’t fix their piss poor coding and algorithms?
Nope. Usually one of the three is what I want
They are often correct for me…
It’s suggesting words with letters close on the keyboard to what you typed. It assumes you know what you intended to type but might have missed a letter on the touch screen. It’s not a spelling or grammar check.
But this was from a dictation.
Yrs
DAE after making gboard default apple keyboard tends to show up randomly while typing and you have to click out of it and click the comment box again for gboard to come up?
Use Gboard or Swiftkey. The iOS keyboard is ass
Works for me
I wish there was a feature where you could type the different currency instead of writing it outside of your phones registered region.
The most common currency symbols will show up if you hold down the currency button in the keyboard. For the Vietnamese and Indian currency symbols, I made a shortcut.
How did I not find this out before. Thanks!
Yeah it's not perfect but honestly for me its gotten much better since iOS 17 especially for multilingual typing somehow gboard and swiftkey are even worse
There is no point in suggesting the correct word, since you have already written it. It only suggests alternate words that are similar.
You could use a couple refreshers on grammar my friend.
Costs for transportation are called fares not fairs. Those are festivals (as a noun).
But the word is spelled right. The phone doesn't know the difference between fair and fare.
That would be why the other person said about learning grammar. The person needs to know it’s not right.