It’s “Damn Autocorrect” all over again as iPhone users complain following update
Damn iPhone autocorrect is back to its old tricks
Another tweet says, “Is it me or is iPhone autocorrect actually atrocious? It keeps correcting words that are spelled correctly to a better meaning (ie food to good) even tho I had it correct. Yet it leaves all the unspelled (sic) words and can’t figure out doibg is supposed to be doing.” “This damn autocorrect on my iPhone gets me in trouble,” said another iPhone user in a tweet.
You can disable Auto-Correction using the toggle on the keyboard settings
You can turn off Auto-Correction if you want by going to Settings > General > Keyboard. Toggle off the second option in the list which is “Auto-Correction.”
Other complaints on Twitter were directed at the iPhone’s predictive text which below the text field gives you gives you three suggestions for the next word in your message. If you see one you like, tap on it and the bar will show you three new suggestions for the next word. While this can be helpful, sometimes the recommended words have nothing to do with the message being typed. One Twitter subscriber says, “Will someone tell my iPhone/what’s app predictive text function that with a child in nursery I type “ill” more than I do “I’ll” so stop trying to make me say it.”
New smartphones using a physical keyboard have failed to catch on with the vast majority of the public
To delete a text replacement tap the “-” button, tap Delete, and then Done. With text replacements, you can save time when messaging by typing in an abbreviation and the full word will appear in the message. For example, if you have “GM” as the abbreviation for “Good morning,” you can type the two letters into the text field and they will be replaced immediately with “Good morning.”
You can customize text replacements on the iPhone
You can also disable the predictive text feature by once again going to Settings > General > Keyboard. Toggle off the fifth option in the list which is called Predictive.
There are many iPhone users who still find autocorrect and predictive text to be useful, but it should be remembered that Apple originally included these features because when the original iPhone was introduced in 2007, typing on a virtual keyboard on a glass display was very difficult for most people who were used to typing on a physical keyboard.
Times have changed, and we know now that most people are comfortable using a virtual QWERTY. How do we know this? Because most attempts to bring back a phone with a physical keyboard have failed to catch on with the vast majority of smartphone users.