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Struggling to spell ‘male chauvinist pig’? Apple’s grey list means your iPhone won’t help you
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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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.
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).
I also stopped using autocorrect awhile back and don’t miss it. At all