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Is the keyboard on iOS getting worse every year or am I in the early stages of some horrific degenerative disease?
They trimmed a huge amount of terminology and an abundance of everyday words, and made it check grammar and punctuation despite the fact that it is objectively terrible at both. It is a fair bit worse now than 10 years ago.
The keyboard and speech to text are getting notably worse and have been for years. I've been somewhat of an Apple defender over the years, but you are not imagining it. I've used androids and iPhones to compare them for accessibility purposes and the iPhone used to be significantly better. I keep my tech for as long as possible, but I've on more than one occasion thought about jumping ship just because the worsening text capabilities sometimes makes my phone unusable for basic communication purposes.
Is yours ancient like mine? I thought the same but went into a shop and specifically tried the keyboard of a demo 17 and it worked as well as I recall it used to. Either that or we have the same disease. 50-50 at this point.
Is a 16 consdered ancient? I def know people who reup every year or two but that seems crazy wasteful.
My 11 still works fine after a battery change.
My daily driver
What's the weekend phone?
unavailable.
It's probably good if my phone doesn't call my mother a cunt while telling her I'm bringing the cocaine by default, but I should be able to toggle that.
just give it to me, and i’ll bring that cunt her blow
I feel like this should be regulated. We should not let private interests arbitrarily mold our speech just because that speech is being mediated by platforms that they create.
Edit: For the record, I’m not making a free speech absolutist argument.
Yeah, the first amendment doesn't apply to private companies, but we really, really need a digital bill of rights
Double plus good point.
Apple autocorrect and suggestions are pure shit. Especially on the touch swipe keyboard; it will just straight up make up words
I think it got even worse when they went to “AI” (Aborted Intelligence) in 2024, and they just have too much hubris to fix it
Tech billionaires/CEOs are all weird control onsessed perverts and sickos trying to modify users beliefs rather than making good technology that serves users.
What kind of sick fucks spend their time on this 1984 bullshit. The fuckwits.
It shouldn’t be like that, but go into the dictionary and autocorrect whatever it tries to change it from, or make an abbreviation etc. I forced mine to stop saying “duck” instead of the fuck word.
the fuck word.
Oh? And which word is that, exactly? hehehe
It's kind of funny. Some years back when I used to use Gboard I had to opposite problem
I wanted to text a friend to meet at the Golden Nugget Casino.
It has a bigger parking lot and a buffet.
Gboard would try to change those words to racial slurs. Had to go into the dictionary override settings and specifically delete certain words so it would never suggest them
