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A comment on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by eloisius on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:43AM (#33257763)
> For example it just tried to sub-in “Quaker” for “quality” in the previous sentence. Why??

Do you have an app called Quaker something installed? I had to disable predictive text because after installing the “YouBike 1.0” app my phone refused to let me type the number 10. It always got replaced with 1.0 no matter how many times I tried to correct it.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by js2 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:53AM (#33257853)
Try Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.

Map “10” to “10”.

It’s the only way I could get iOS to stop correcting fucking to ducking. (Lol, it just tried to correct ducking to fucking and I had to override it.)

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by adastra22 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:47AM (#33258224)
You can disable predictive text?!? Teach me your ways!
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by eloisius on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:52AM (#33258583)
Settings > General > Keyboards, near the bottom there is a toggle for Predictive.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by cpdean on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:21AM (#33260480)
the unfortunate thing about this is you lose the three suggested words at the top of the keyboard if you want to get rid of the rewrite feature.

the suggested words are sometimes not correct, but jesus ducking christ just let me opt in if it’s useful in the moment!

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by dhsysusbsjsi on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:01AM (#33260865)
I set up an auto-correct for 'ducking' to replace it back to what you actually want to say.

Also whilst Apple is reading this, please stop changing "were" to "we're" out of context. Ugh.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by throwsec7492 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:54AM (#33259790)
As a fellow frustrated typer (AC’d to Tyler just now) in Taiwan, thank you for pointing this out. I was absolutely flummoxed.
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