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by ComputerGuru 999 days ago
It already does and I hate it. If a person you’re speaking with misspells a word, it’ll happy suggest^w forcibly autocorrect a similar word to that misspelling if it was recent enough.
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I think tpowell was asking about the all-new autocorrect system. Do you have information on how that works, or were you just talking about the old system that is being deleted on Monday?
I have no evidence or reason to believe that the inputs to the corpus of valid word sources for the new system changed - most likely only the prediction model did. This misfeature only recently shipped (iOS 16, I think) and I’m sure Cupertino views it as a net gain.
Do they do that across conversations, eg if I misspell something while texting you does it recommend my misspelling when you’re talking to other people?
Yes. Ever since I went to the Maldives it wants to capitalize "male" and I have to work quite hard to get it to not correct "Yes" to "Yea", and "Thailand" to "Thailnd". Hate it.
In Settings there is Reset Keyboard Dictionary to revert to the default dictionary.
Thank you!!
Googling for something like “iphone wrong autocorrect” helps in such cases. ;)
Yes
This is called zoomer slang support