Yup, similar -- I've never visited either in my life prior, but on macOS it goes to realty.com, but I am shocked that on iOS I type in "realty.com" and it doesn't autocorrect, but lists "realtor.com" as the top suggestion below, but when I hit enter it goes to realtor.com instead of realty.com!

That is seriously bad functionality. I've already been annoyed at iOS's keyboard overly autocorrecting, but to change a URL I typed in explicitly really pisses me off.

I'm curious, did yours also have the extra m (realty.comm)? Both the 2nd and 3rd phone the video shows has the extra m, which makes me think it's an actual bug in the autocomplete, where it has completed to "realtor.com" (notice realtor has one more letter than realty), but you actually don't see it (except the last letter, the extra m at the end). So when you press enter, it goes to realtor.

If you do get the extra m, can you play around and see what happens if you delete the extra m at the end? Does it go to realtor.co? realty.com?

Nope, never saw any extra m. Sounds like something in your personal autocomplete "learned dictionary".

I don't know why, but 5 years ago the autocorrect on iOS never bothered me much, but over the past 1-2 years it's gotten much more "wrong". It's been driving me nuts.

To be clear, I don't have an iPhone myself, which is why I was wondering if you could check. I was referring to the video linked by the post. The phones there are brand new so they shouldn't have a learned dictionary, yet both the 2nd and third phone have the same behavior of adding an extra "m" at the end there if you look closely at the video.

> I almost wonder if this is happening to the owner of realty.com because they have spent a lot of time looking at realtor.com

No - this is why the video demo does it not on his devices (where previous personal history would be relevant) but on "clean" phones in Apple Store.

Ah, i missed that detail!

I'm on OSX 10.15.5 and when I type "realty" and hit enter (in safari) I get taken to realtor.com

EDIT: even if I type "realty.com" and hit enter, I get taken to realtor.com.

I just tested on my iPhone, never visited either, and got realtor.com instead.

Same here.

I found that if I am in private browsing mode, this does not happen.

I recommend editing at the beginning of your comment instead of the end, it is a lot of anecdotal/incorrect text to read through before the edit and it sort of comes off as biased or naive even though I know that wasn't your intention.

This is not the case if you look at the video. He's trying it out on iPhones in an Apple Store (not owned by him).

Best Buy rather than Apple store.

Of course the most obvious explanation of all is that someone set up a domain redirect for the sole purpose of getting a front page on HN and Reddit. This domain seems to be very poorly ranked, yet here everyone is plugging it into their browsers and telling Google and everyone else how very important it is.

Your reply sounds irrelevant when multiple people on this thread have been able to replicate. It only happens on Safari and if you turn off Safari suggestions it stops. People have also been able to replicate it on macOS. So it’s obvious it’s coming from Safari suggestions. Feel free to test for yourself.