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by asciimov 128 days ago
That could is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

If they can't get my keyboard to stop replacing in with inn I don't think they are going to magically fix the battery life hit that comes with every ios update.

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For a long time I thought my typing and proofreading got worse. I am glad to hear more and more from others where the iOS keyboard also does funky stuff. I haven't had "in" to "inn" but I have had the keyboard replace words in the typed text right when I am submitting a text message.
I just don't think to proof my texts. Usually it's type, send, and realize autocorrect makes me sound like a ~balloon~ buffoon.
I'm shocked to see this as the top comment. My entire household is on Apple devices. There are over a dozen products with keyboards (physical or virtual) and no one has ever had in replaced with inn.

Where does it even happen? Can you create a keyboard shortcut or solve it with some LLM help?

"in" to "inn" is just one of the numerous words it LOVES to replace for me. (But it is one of the most common)

Just this afternoon it also replaced "for" with "fire", and it loves censoring me with "ducking".

One time it got me into hot water when it corrected "tacos" to "Travis". "I picked up Travis on the way home" isn't the message your wife wants to see after being dropped off at the airport.

Just my iPhone 13 mini does this my iPad isn't as bad. It has persisted between iOS updates and has been an ongoing issue for a few years.

I think it’s like Amazon reviews. Nobody has a 100% rating, there’s always something, and that’s what gets the attention.
Apple’s keyboard problems are very evident. There are videos showing some very blatant flaws.

But I suspect there are Apple homers who are gonna defend Apple just like they defended the butterfly keyboards, right until the day Apple finally accepted it was broken and surprise, here’s a new laptop you can buy from Apple without the butterfly keyboard to replace your existing broken one.

Or alternatively Apple will accept that the device was indeed broken but 5 years later, when people barely have their device anymore and if they do it’s not worth getting the replacement from Apple anyways because it’s outdated, like they did with the graphics cards in the laptops for several years.

I get what you’re saying, I’m saying you don’t know if the keyboard problems are affecting 0.3% or 30%. The internet makes both of those look the same, and yes Apple can’t be trusted. If we’re doing anecdotes I have no issues with my keyboards either.
What do you even mean by LLM help??