I gave up using swipe typing after the Nth time it changed a word 10 words back just as I pressed send. Maybe this is why in a few of those cases but not generally. Having to proofread messages after sending didn't seem efficient. But thank you for doing this... a little light shone on something goes a long way.
For some reason for me typing now feels like walking on ice. Sure sometimes it successfully corrects a mistyped word - but it so often changes a correct word to an incorrect one that I think I’m worse off overall.
I picked up my old iPhone 7 last week and typing on iOS16 on that MUCH smaller screen somehow feels MORE accurate.
Something’s gone seriously wrong with predictive text.
Depending on your socioeconomic status, the $12/year for a .com is either cheap or expensive, and while I hesitate to claim I'm disgusting wealthy (because I'm not) I, (I'm not the OP) at least rich enough to spend $12/year amongst other life's expenses. Having a custom domain name for a thing is a way of driving people to the domain, instead of focusing on yourself. It feels less self-aggrandizing to point at a project on its own domain name, rather than say hey, look at my blog which is branded with my name. What's important is the project, not me.
I appreciate it, I don't even own any iProducts but I find it interesting to see what phrases or words are considered for censorship from a mainstream mega corp.
Apparently it won't autocomplete cunning linguist, but it doesn't block master debater so half of that Austin powers joke (surely borrowed from an earlier comedian) will still autocomplete. Groovy baby yeah!
I picked up my old iPhone 7 last week and typing on iOS16 on that MUCH smaller screen somehow feels MORE accurate.
Something’s gone seriously wrong with predictive text.
- are some important
- fish finger(s)
- he’s hot
- is the worst
- sneak peak
- thank god
- you suck
A mistake or accident? A workaround for a swipe autocorrect bug? Or some really obscure slang, somehow ending up on their list of obscure phrases?
That's worse than the HN title of merely just not suggesting the phrase, that is some 1984 going on.
> After “Left wing”, swiping conspiracy makes the keyboard rewrite the word before it. Wing becomes wrong,
Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50391486
I dumped Apple's word list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50357782
Apparently it won't autocomplete cunning linguist, but it doesn't block master debater so half of that Austin powers joke (surely borrowed from an earlier comedian) will still autocomplete. Groovy baby yeah!