It’s abysmal garbage now. Was something changed about how it works?

  • @[email protected]
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    258 months ago

    What’s worse is that disabling it in settings does not survive a restart.

    Drives me nuts. Always makes me say things I didn’t Nintendo.

  • @Zachariah
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    218 months ago

    It went from (iOS 16 and earlier) never letting me type “fuck” and replacing it with “duck” instead to (iOS 17) suggesting and “correcting” what I type with wildly improbable words.

      • Jackie's Fridge
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        198 months ago

        No that’s funny. Android autocorrect has been garbage WAY longer than iOS.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          88 months ago

          Oh shit, did I not get the joke? Damn. Going to leave it there as an homage to my inability to get subtle humor.

          Thanks.

          • Jackie's Fridge
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            48 months ago

            Aw it’s good. Subtle humour generally does not play well on the internet.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              48 months ago

              It’s even worse with ASD, but I love subtle humor when I can recognize it. It’s not only that it’s funny, but it comes with an additional victory lap for being able to see it for what it is.

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    108 months ago

    I remember those memes from all those years ago (even from the skeuomorphic days of iOS; 2007-2013) where autocorrect can basically ruin a user’s life.

    I was an iOS user right until 2015, because I couldn’t afford any of the new iPhones, and the old ones were really slow on the then latest version. I had an iPhone 4 at this point.

    So I think I always remember iOS’s autocorrect being garbage. Either it got better once I left and then suddenly got worse again, or nothing changed at all and it continues to be garbage without ever being good for a day. Can anyone else confirm this?

    • @ilinamorato
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      28 months ago

      I had an iPhone for work from about 2014-2018. Autocorrect was as you have said the entire time (ganache).

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        38 months ago

        Not sure what ganache has to do with this, but I actually didn’t think someone else would relate to me this much.

        • @ilinamorato
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          58 months ago

          That was a bad autocorrect joke (garbage > ganache). I had just woken up.

          • @Soggy
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            28 months ago

            If it helps, I got the joke straight away.

  • Fake4000
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    88 months ago

    Yeah. Noticed it being super bad. Also, it could be related to the previous issue of the keyboard typing letters multiple times randomly.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      28 months ago

      Haven’t had the multiple typing thing happen. But I will say that just now trying to type the word “happen” I had to force it to not say “hammer.”

      • Fake4000
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        38 months ago

        Yeah. I tried installing gboard and it didn’t help.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        “Carries” is a nightmare for me. It’s not a rare word. Why does autocorrect think I’d ever want " Carrie’s"? It’s not like that’s even a name in my contact list to influence it into ridiculous nonsense.

  • @Psythik
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    48 months ago

    Happens on Android too. SwiftKey keyboard used to be the shit. I could sloppily mash out a message without even looking at my phone and it would autocorrect everything perfectly 98% of the time. Ever since Microsoft bought it about a decade ago it’s been getting worse and worse. I can’t type at all on this damn thing without looking directly at the keyboard like I’m still learning how to type. It’s infuriating.

  • @dohpaz42
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    38 months ago

    And here I thought it was just me. Glad to know I’m not the only one.

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    It uses LLM training. I find it to be a huge improvement, but understand that mileage may vary.

  • @DBT
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    28 months ago

    The only issue I’ve had is it loves to type “phine” instead of “phone” - I added this to text replacement and the problem went away.

    “Fir” instead of “for” is still an issue sometimes but I just need to add that one as well. It doesn’t happen frequently enough for me to be bothered yet.

    Other than that it works pretty well for me.

  • @QuarterSwede
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    28 months ago

    Oh it’s absolutely garbage. So far AI has only made things worse, including autocorrect.

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    I had to reset my keyboard once or twice a month for a while. Finally turned it off because it kept learning that words i often started sentences with should always be capitalized, even in the middle of a sentence. Spent a few weeks constantly correcting my spelling because i had grown heavily dependent on autocorrect, but it was worth it