Posted by lladnar 1 day ago
I picked up my old iPhone 7 last week and typing on iOS16 on that MUCH smaller screen somehow feels MORE accurate.
Something’s gone seriously wrong with predictive text.
All I know is it was OLD. But somehow the keyboard was way better
- are some important
- fish finger(s)
- he’s hot
- is the worst
- sneak peak
- thank god
- you suck
A mistake or accident? A workaround for a swipe autocorrect bug? Or some really obscure slang, somehow ending up on their list of obscure phrases?
That's worse than the HN title of merely just not suggesting the phrase, that is some 1984 going on.
> After “Left wing”, swiping conspiracy makes the keyboard rewrite the word before it. Wing becomes wrong,
Apparently it won't autocomplete cunning linguist, but it doesn't block master debater so half of that Austin powers joke (surely borrowed from an earlier comedian) will still autocomplete. Groovy baby yeah!
Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50391486
I dumped Apple's word list