I haven't compared it to Android, but iOS seems to learn pretty quickly which "typos" are actually words I want to spell (names and curses mostly), so I find the autocorrect mostly helpful. (Until it's not, of course. My phone seems smarter in that regard than my iPad, but maybe that's just because I've been using it longer.)
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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Jessica - Sep 14, 2011 7:13:24 am PDT #17836 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gris - Sep 14, 2011 7:24:30 am PDT #17837 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of autocorrect in general on both platforms. It definitely helps more than it hurts - it's just when it corrects something you typed right and you have to redo, it's annoying.
javachik - Sep 14, 2011 7:49:03 am PDT #17838 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Eh, sometimes it's just stupid though. Out of nowhere (I can ASSURE you I do not type "A's" on purpose ever), the iphone started changing all of my "as" to "A's". Deeply annoying. The same with the word "the"? It ALWAYS tries to change it to "THr" or something ridiculous.
meara - Sep 14, 2011 8:10:58 am PDT #17839 of 25501
I mostly appreciate the autocorrect, as I'm sure I type on the phone much more poorly than I think I do. However, it always wants to change "noe" to "Noe" rather than "now". Which irks. Or is possibly a sign I should move to SF and talk about Noe Valley more often?
Toddson - Sep 14, 2011 8:18:41 am PDT #17840 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Or that Dan Quayle was involved with the programming?
megan walker - Sep 14, 2011 8:20:00 am PDT #17841 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Or is possibly a sign I should move to SF and talk about Noe Valley more often?
Except that's where I saw the naked man jogging!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 14, 2011 8:58:19 am PDT #17842 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have a Blackberry and a student named Mo. It autocorrects to Month. I cannot make it stop. He is even in my address book as Month. It is super annoying.
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 9:54:33 am PDT #17843 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Also, as evidenced over in Gaming, the thing I can't figure out in Android is capitalization autocorrect. In general, I really like that when I lay down a period or at the start of a post it auto capitalizes for me. But there are lots of times when I don't want it too, like, for example, when I'm trying to use quick edit formatting! Or when I use honorifics. Or abbreviations.
Right now I can't figure out how to undo the cap. Anyone know?
I did finally figure out where my Droid's shift lock was, though. I was all, hey, LED I've never seen before!
Jon B. - Sep 14, 2011 10:06:34 am PDT #17844 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
On my android phone, I get around the auto-capitalization by typing the letter a second time and then backspacing and deleting the first letter. Which is insane, but I don't know how else to do it.
Liese S. - Sep 14, 2011 10:15:41 am PDT #17845 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, that's a good idea. Stupid to have to, but right now, I don't even have a workaround.