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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by ehsankia on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:19PM (#23647770)
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?

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by crazygringo on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:25PM (#23647805)
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.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by ehsankia on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:32PM (#23654571)
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.
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