Mine throws in random French words that look like the medical words I was aiming for.

Also for a 3 month period it was auto-correcting ’thé’ to ‘teh’ - i had to train it out of it by spending around half an hour just entering and cancelling the auto correct in notepad on both my computer and phone (because they’re linked)

Edit… oh dear, it may have discovered another association I don’t want it to have

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I looked through their comment history, I couldn't see anything too controversial around the time this kicked started. Weird, maybe they can ask @dang to see what's up?

For me it always turns “well” into “we’ll”. I have no idea why. I rarely type in the second person, and grammatically they’re not substitutes. It’s maddening.

Yes! And ill to I'll, or the other way around. It's driving me bonkers.

Yes! This does my head in. The number of times I've sent 'We'll done!'

For me [on Android, which is just as excerable] it's changing "has" to "had", which it does every fucking time. No matter how many times I change it back. I'll re-read what I've written and find I've been jumping between past and present tense like a grammatical kangaroo.

One thing that could vastly improve the suggestions would be to only insert a proper noun if I've first tapped the shift key. Here again, Android has the infuriating habit of suddenly inserting a person, city or country name into the most prosaic of sentences.

My other major annoyance with this kind of typing on mobile is that; once the fuckwitted algorithm has made a ridiculously wrong choice, when you spot it a word or two later and go back to correct it, all the corrections offered are variations on the wrong word it chose, rather than alternatives for what could have been chosen initially.

And the very nature of typing on mobile means you're looking at the keyboard, not what's appearing on-screen [as people can do, to various degrees, on 'real' keyboards]. So, unless you're looking up at the screen between every single word, to make sure it's correct, a lot of the correcting has to be done belatedly. So the errors tend to pile up.

And how come neither Google nor Samsung keyboards capitalize the I? Really folks, you call that ML and also put it in your CV?

good, i hate how many devices and applications make me turn off capitalisation.

Third person?

Yes! And "in" to "I'm" and vice-versa. It drives me absolutely mental. iOS typing just gets worse and worse over time.

And evidently I'm not allowed to swear. "Fuck" gets unfailingly "corrected" to "duck" -- even if I spell it out.

Adding a text replacement from “fuck” to “fuck” (General - Keyboards - Text Replacement) allows you to swear again.

Oh nice, I never thought of that. I would love to see the list of these unacceptable words, I can almost understand it not wanting to type out "fuck" but iirc they were also not autocorrecting "abortion" at one point which is a little ... conservative

They put those various in because there was a time when it would autocorrect the other way duck would become fuck if misspelled kind of thing.

And usually a misplaced duck is less harmful in a polite/business setting than a misplaced fuck.

“I saw a fuck on the road on the way to work” in work chat is a different type of embarrassment than “what the duck were you thinking you ducking idiot” in a personal text.

oh yeah I get it, I’d just love to see the list of words out of sheer curiousity

I'd assume it must be somewhere in the source, so perhaps someone has already decompiled it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-apple-kill-list-what-your-... might be a place to start

Thank you so much. This alone is a quality of life improvement on an ios keyboard. I'll live with s/well/we'll/ if it stops trying to police my tone when I'm annoyed

There's a blast from the past. Remember on the old Nokia dumbphones with T9 [0] predictive text. Belatedly realising you'd insulted somebody by calling them a 'duck' or an 'aunt'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

That's first person plural, not second person btw.

thank you

Continue typing the following word and it will revert we'll to well if we'll didn't make sense. (In other words, it looks backward two words, not one.)

This has never happened for me.

Reset your keyboard dictionary.

Also when I dictate using Siri, maybe becomes “may be”. Wtf

I've discovered that Siri (US-English) is, IMNSHO ridiculously heavily weighted towards southern drawl. Like, where "lion" and "line" are essentially indistinguishable sounds. It KEEPs transcribing my words as if i had a southern accent, but i very much speak with a generic northern accent with fairly clear enunciation and diction and pronunciations that tend to match the dictionary.

Nit: that's the first person plural, not the second person.

I believe there is (or very much should be) something like a “principle of least surprise” in product design. Delight is great but this is unexpected, annoying behavior.

I took from all the comments to experiment with turning off auto-complete. So far its going great. You can still manually select words to substitute or complete but the algorithm won’t change any words by itself.

Swipe-to-type on Yandex keyboard on Android had a similarly infuriating habit of "correcting" my English spelling to American. So I'd swipe c-o-l-o-u-r and it would insert 'color', c-e-n-t-r-e and it would insert 'center', etc. etc.

Oh.And this was with my phone set to 'UK English' and Yandex keyboard set to use 'System Language'. If I caught it in time, I could drag the suggested word off the suggestion bar, so it would be removed from future suggestions. But the yanks have mangled the English language so much, it was a Sisyphean task.