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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by om2 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:44PM (#23648470)
Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number.

I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavior myself. Any other examples of bogus/unexpected autocomplete also welcome.

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by tidwall on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:58PM (#23648555)
I only use Safari and I’ve actually been on realtor.com a ton the past few days. I just punched in realty.com and it directed me to realtor.com. If I do http://realty.com it takes me to the correct site.
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by om2 on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:24AM (#23649260)
Interesting! Maybe it takes a lot of visits to realtor.com to get in this state.
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by nhf on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:02AM (#23648586)
Done: FB7793463. It sounds like you work at Apple? The screen recording is attached to the report.
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by om2 on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:27AM (#23649277)
Thank you! I do work at Apple, on WebKit mostly but I'm in touch with a lot of Safari folks too.
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by tomc1985 on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:23AM (#23648945)
I can't tell if it's my company's censorware or Safari but lately it really likes redirecting 127.0.0.1 to http://www.127.0.0.1.com if a server isn't listening on the port I requested. Localhost does the same thing
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by wtvanhest on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:12AM (#23648904)
I don’t have a developer’s account, but I’m new to iPhone in the last 4 months and my phone also goes from realty.com to realtor.com.

Not sure if a lack of history is for some reason causing it, or the presence of history is preventing it

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by om2 on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:29AM (#23649287)
It's free to sign up on developer.apple.com! Bug reports filed via Feedback Assistant are a lot more actionable, so worth it if you are considering reporting issues.
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by baskire on Friday June 26, 2020 @03:35AM (#23649649)
Happy to as well. Able to reproduce on my iPhone 8. Type in “sketch” to safari. Hit enter. End up at sketchers.com
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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to real... by baddox on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:02AM (#23648582)
When I search in iPhone Safari for “sketch” I get a dictionary definition for the word as the top suggested result. Pressing “go” does a Google search for “sketch”.
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