Comment by teekert

9 days ago

My fav is when iOS autocorrect corrects me AFTER pressing send.

Be glad you only type in one language and that it is US English (probably) ;)

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biztos  8 days ago

As long as we are ranting: I have many multilingual converstations. At some point iOS started offering the "German/English" keyboard option. I assume it also does "French/Swahili" or whatever, but for some reason it didn't auto-create a combination for "Hungarian/English" which I use more than German/English.

This sounds like a great idea, but in practice it just autocorrects incorrectly in two languages instead of one. Which is a shame, since even the German government uses a lot of Denglish these days, you'd think it would be trainable.

Meanwhile, when the chat gets stuck in the wrong language, it's a comfort to know that selecting another (or trying to press Shift for that matter) will take me to Keyboard Settings at least 80% of the time. Because who knows when you might need to change those!

devnullbrain  8 days ago

Come on, the 6th word after 5 English words is obviously going to be a rare word in your second keyboard language, not another common English word.

  • teekert  8 days ago

    On top this my own language is Englishifying so it’s understandable it gets confused. But still, the whole thing is infuriating when you type something correct and boom, it becomes a word in another language.

johtso  9 days ago

Yes this behaviour is infuriating, the surprise autocorrect! Can result in some really embarrassing messages being sent..