How to use spell check and autocorrection in Pages on Mac
For help making your documents flawless, here’s how to use spell check, grammar check, and autocorrection in Pages on Mac.
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Why iOS keyboard offers “ducking” suggestions & never assists you in typing obscenities
A former engineer who worked on the early keyboard for iPhone explains why the software does not automatically correct common dirty words as you type them and instead offers lame suggestions, such as “duck” and “ducking”.
How to change text and formatting AutoCorrect settings in Word for Mac
Create documents quicker, automatically format them, and reduce your errors. The Word AutoCorrect options can help you and here’s how to adjust them.
New autocorrect bug in iOS 11 turns “it” into “I.T.”
Just as soon as Apple corrects the bug that caused “i” to autocorrect to “A[?]”, there appears to be yet another one popping up. Several users are reporting that “it” is sometimes being auto-corrected to “I.T.” in iOS 11.
Ohio State taunts Apple during recent football game
Ohio’s subtle dig at Apple’s autocorrect problem went viral.
Apple’s embarrassing “i → A [?]” autocorrect bug could be a machine learning problem
The machine learning algorithm for iOS’s autocorrect QuickType keyboard feature was reportedly learning something it never should have learned.
iOS 11.2 beta 2 fixes the predictive text bug
An Apple spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that a fix for the weird predictive text bug in iOS “will be released very soon.”
How to work around the “i → A [?]” predictive text bug in iOS 11.1
Apple will squash this bug for good in a future software update. Until it’s ready, here’s a temporary workaround.
Apple’s vision of a streamlined clarification process for when Auto-Correction makes mistakes
There probably isn’t a single iPhone user on this planet that hasn’t experienced the “joys” of the Auto-Correction feature interfering with their messaging. Auto-Correction mistakes often produce hilarious miscommunications (there’s a website for that).
Whether or not you’re a heavy typist, you’ll appreciate that Apple’s been researching ways to improve Auto-Correction, according to a patent application that surfaced yesterday in the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) database.
Cryptically titled “Device, method and graphical user interface for visible and interactive corrected content,” it envisions highlighting auto-corrected words in an iMessage for the recipient and a built-in Messages feature for streamlining the process of clarifying what the sender meant.
How to disable Auto-Correction on Mac
Like your iPhone or iPad, your Mac has an auto-correction feature that automatically corrects any misspelled words, which can be an inconvenience to some people. In this post, you will learn how to disable your Mac’s built-in Auto-Correction feature and regain control of what you type.
How to disable Auto-Correction on iOS
Though the Auto-Correction feature is indispensable, it can be quite a nuisance if your choice of words, your writing style, or vocabulary exceeds iOS’s built-in dictionary. This tutorial will to teach you how to turn off suggested corrections for common misspellings throughout iOS.
12 words your iPhone won’t auto-correct
Apple’s implementation of auto-correct in iOS has long been the subject of criticism. When it works, it works, but it has the reputation of being inconsistent. Sometimes it won’t notice slight misspellings of a word, and others it’ll offer wrong suggestions.
And apparently there’s a handful of words that auto-correct won’t touch at all. The Daily Beast recently ran a few low-grade, in-house tests on the feature, and it found that there are at least 12 often-used, ‘hot button’ terms it seems to purposely ignore…
