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> I've never noticed the "censorship issue"

Really? If you swipe "kill" and then try "yourself" or "myself" does it ever get it right or provide it as one of the options? Doing it right now myself and I can't get it to do either. I have manually entered those words and hit the "myself" in the suggestion box to try and convince it that that's an acceptable correction to no avail.

> I inevitably do the "wrong thing" and fall victim to the editing again, or tap something wrong, or.. I don't know

Every. Time. I like to think that I'm not an idiot and can generally pattern recognize, but it just feels so inconsistent that I'm always doing the wrong thing.

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Further, iPhones are so bad if you exist anywhere outside the mainstream and language orthodoxy.

Their voice recognition stubbornly refuses to acknowledge Linux, instead transcribing Linux.

Typing "tboy" or "transfem", common terms in the trans community, gets changed to "toby" or "transfer". I can understand "toby", but the latter is especially bad, as the "r" and "m" keys are nowhere near each other. I'll type these words several times a day, every day, and it'll never get recorded. But one typo of the form "unbeleivalbe" gets permanently etched into the autocorrection.

Any intentionally unorthodox english gets invisibly censored and editorialized. You can say "here come dat boi" nowadays (which is good if you're a fan of 2016 memes) but not "wrasslin". Phrases like "what you doin today" has its tone and informality stripped when it's changed to "what are you doing today".

I would at some point throw my phone out the window if it worked like this. Instead I choose to have zero help correcting anything I type on my phone. I proofread, and fix any errors before I hit "send". I'm also on a folding android phone with a large screen and a 3rd-party keyboard app with adjustable size keys, so it's very easy to type.

…and when I type standard, but clique-centric, abbreviations and slang among my own groups, the iPhone messes those up, too.

Options also exist to pre-populate the predictive wordlists with our own terms, and to turn off predictive text altogether.

But you can not disable predictive button resizing.

Predictive text replacements are very bad, but they mitigate the worse issue of the fact that the keyboard is incessantly shifting with every single keypress.

I’ve confirmed this on my iphone as well.

Using swipe, no space bar after kill: Kill maps Jill myself Jill myself

Using swipe, manually pressing space bar after kill: Kill mussels Kill mussels Kill mussels

Yeah same -

Kill males kill males kill muddled kill mussels (hilarious)

Treat myself tear myself try myself tell myself

It won’t do it.

Kill mussels confirmed

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