If I type some letters, it autocorrects, I explicitly backspace to delete the autocorrection, and then type the exact same thing again, for the love of god stop “helpfully” correcting it for me again to the exact same thing I just undid.
This seems like such low-hanging fruit it's baffling that it's still an issue and I say this as a full-blown Apple apologist.
If you pause at the end of the word, either the first time or after correcting it, and don’t hit any key, it’ll throw up the “suggestion X” popup. Tapping X on that popup teaches it the word.
I, and a lot of others, will backspace to correct a word, then hit space, and then it immediately undoes the correction, because hitting the space bar is indicating “you can go ahead and autocorrect this as you would in everyday typing”.
This training method isn’t documented anywhere that I know of, has worked for years (perhaps for all time?), and is the opposite of well-known. I am really upset with Apple for that last one especially.
Unfortunately, when I got a Mac laptop, those replacements were synched and for some reason can’t be disabled on just one device.
Now I’m back to autocorrect, fighting with the AI to learn technical terms and command line entries for when I need to talk to colleagues over chat.
Phase 1: iPhone w/o autocorrect but with text replacements.
Phase 2: iPhone and macOS, but text replacements are synched without option to disable. I don’t want autocorrect or replacements while typing on a real keyboard.
Phase 3 (reluctantly): iPhone with autocorrect, macOS without it, and no text replacements.
tl;dr it would be nice if I could disable text replacement on a per-device basis.
I want an option to disable that, but right now there doesn't seem to be a way other than turning off autocorrect altogether (which I've been alternating it on and off lately trying to figure out which one aggravates me least; I also briefly returned to SwiftKey [RIP] to see if its ancient less recently trained ML autocorrect model was better).
> Worse is its insistence on continuing to autocorrect words I’ve just gone back to fix.
>i just turned auto correct off completely a few versions ago...
We're gonna need to see some proof.
PS --you misssed "it will also chooses"
That said, there are times when retroactive correction is useful. If I type "new york," it's appropriate for the phone to automatically correct it to "New York" and not "new York"
they then removed this a few years ago.
utterly baffling how over-engineered and regressive it has become