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by cpdean 1331 days ago
i can’t for the life of me reason why the changes to auto correct were ever seen as useful. that it changes a word you’ve typed two words ago (so it’s outside of your attention by the time you’re focused on getting the most recent word correct) is baffling.

Additionally, by designing it this way you’re guaranteed to only notice when this feature fucks up. If you typed the wrong word and moved on, you never notice. If you typed the right word and moved on, you see auto correct has fucked up after you send the message, or as it’s fucking up because you’ve learned to not trust the keyboard anymore so now you’re constantly rereading the last few words as you’re typing.

Really a shame they put effort into a feature that’s designed to frustrate the user in this way.