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Struggling to spell ‘male chauvinist pig’? Apple’s grey list means your iPhone won’t help you (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do feel like autocorrect has been getting consistently worse over the last 2 years.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.

I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I turned off autocorrect and have been disabling it when I see it enabled ever since like the 2nd or 3rd time I caught it replacing a readable typo with the wrong word (either that or "autocorrecting" "bad" words spelled correctly).

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I also stopped using autocorrect awhile back and don’t miss it. At all

[–] eepydeeby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

+1 to this. Tried a bunch of FOSS keyboards and switched to HeliBoard because of it! Wouldn't you know, autocorrect experience improved 😮‍💨

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Microsoft used to have a word flow keyboard I absolutely adored and they killed it. I miss it terribly.

[–] Kite@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

SwiftKey! I loved that keyboard and you're right, they killed it.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

The OG Swype was the best. Used it until it was too old to be installed on current gen android

Still miss it every day I have to use a phone keyboard. Even swiping this text had me re"type" multiple times that I didn't have to do back in swype days

Using standard gboard, but swiftkey wasn't really better in my experience

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No the curved thing. The corner was the space bar, the keyboard bend around that corner. You could one hand it better than you can two-hand a modern one on big phones. I LOVED it. I am still violently angry it’s gone.

Just talking about it…wait a second. I need to wipe out a family.

[–] leadstark@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Maybe, Microsoft Word Flow?

https://youtu.be/lVZ0jmZ-egM

Which phones had it?