John Gruber16 years in and iOS still doesn't have this feature that MacOS (née Mac OS X) has had since it launched 22 years ago: “Learn Spelling”.
Pastor of Muppets@gruber Not only that, but "just make a keyboard shortcut" does not work consistently. For years it has been trying to correct the word "jammies" as Jammie's, which I guess is the possessive of some guy named Jammie? Creating the shortcut doesn't fix. But even worse, it just now tried to correct the name without possessive to Jamie. The "smart" autocorrect system is inexcusably bad.
Applewise@middleclasstool @gruber ever noticed that there seem to be competing autocorrect systems?
Not today, but sometimes the predictive corrections are laughably bad while the’ replace’ method has always seemed more reliable.
Not today, but sometimes the predictive corrections are laughably bad while the’ replace’ method has always seemed more reliable.
@applewise @middleclasstool The top one isn’t autocorrect. That’s the text system’s “Replace” feature. The difference is that autocorrect suggestions are based on exactly how you tapped on the keyboard. The Replace suggestions are just based on selected word. You can get Replace suggestions for words you’ve pasted. You don’t get autocorrect for pasted words.
@gruber @middleclasstool Hmm, makes sense that replace behaves differently being not based on letters actually typed. Still, my memory is that autocorrect never previously suggested such nonsense as it has the last couple of years and perhaps, despite my memory suggesting otherwise, I therefore never actually compared.
What do you make of autocorrect automatically and infuriatingly dropping in such phrases as ‘could of’ after perfectly typing ‘could’ve’?
Is it your experience that it’s mostly fixed?