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Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by hypercube33 on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:20PM (#47005175)
It's not just apple - windows and android autocorrect are more auto incorrect these days.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by soco on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:21PM (#47006607)
I can't tell about windows - never used autocorrect there - but GBoard became laughable. I don't think I was able to use its suggestions since a few years. For instance, it will NEVER but really never put a uppercase I when I'm talking about myself. Never. I could select it from suggestions if I feel like, but I kinda gave up (this is written in Windows, that's why you see capital Is). Or my name, used quite often right, is also never spelled correctly - although it's there in the suggestions. I am using a yahoo email, GBoard knows the username, but it will ALWAYS suggest a gmail extension, which simply doesn't exist. I don't know any other keyboard which can properly handle multiple languages, so I'm stuck with GBoard, but it's nothing to be proud of.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by netsharc on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:54PM (#47006963)
I have the same email @yahoo.com and @gmail.com (one is mostly for online shops etc), and the amount of time GBoard thinks it needs to recommend @gmail.com, it's obnoxious...

But the correction offers are still okay for me, I can mash keys around my email username and one of the corrections offered will be my username...

Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by owenthejumper on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:47PM (#47011334)
SwiftKey can handle languages, but it kind of sucks too , lol. It crashes all the time
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by soco on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:11PM (#47016800)
No it cannot. SwiftKey has exactly two "languages": one is French, the other is German/English/Italian/Romanian. Yes it's a mash of all four, which makes the default swiped word and the suggestions exactly useless. Who the hell thought that was a good idea... only Samsung keyboard offers separate languages as well, but it's kinda worse in suggestions than GBoard.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by munk-a on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:27PM (#47008076)
Your statement isn't incorrect - but I think it needs a slight qualification of "And none of them are acceptable". Both Apple and Android have regressed in quality and it's only possible because of a duopoly.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leavi... by kbelder on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:52PM (#47008331)
Is there a windows autocorrect? I thought that was a feature implemented by the individual program, not any sort of OS functionality.