Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by MeetingsBrowser on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:23PM
(#49703395)
A common one I hit is "blu" showing bluetooth settings, but "blue" does not. Very frustrating to see the thing you are hoping for popup, but then go away as you type more if its name.
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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by vladvasiliu on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:31PM
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Windows does this, too. So I really wonder how come two companies implemented the same borked behavior.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by jareklupinski on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:39PM
(#49703633)
that space is probably sold to the same ad network by both OSs
It would be interesting to learn what over engineered solution to fuzzy string matching is being used here to exhibit this behavior, so we never make the same mistake.
Android keyboard does that too. When I start typing my email address, for example, the keyboard app suggests the correct email after a few characters, but if I keep typing it disappears from the suggestions.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by Intermernet on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:26AM
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I have to send a daily email that always has the subject starting with "Work Diary". If I type "W", it doesn't come up. If I type "Wo" it comes up as the 3rd auto-complete suggestion. If I type any more characters, I have to type the entire two words. This is on Android, but I have a feeling it's no better on iOS.
I'd love to know the algorithm they're using for this. Fuzzy search seems like it was a mostly solved problem 20 years ago, and it's definitely worse than it was 10 years ago.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by PalmPilotProMax on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:18AM
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I bet it's some obscure MIT/BSD-licensed fuzzy matching library that both macOS and Windows uses.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by rootusrootus on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:10PM
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Just tried this on iOS 27 and both blu and blue showed me bluetooth settings. I saw someone in a different thread of this discussion mention resetting dictionaries helping with autocorrect, I wonder if there is something that would apply to this situation which helps.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by rightnutwingjob on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:12PM
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Just do a fresh install every two weeks.
Aah those were the days.
These are too, but those were as well.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:55PM
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KDE gets it right, too.
And it offers me THREE different chess games I could install!
Not just operating systems. Try the following on the IMDB app or website.
Search 'True', you'll get True Detective and True Blood show up as the top results. That seems to work well.
But then if you add a space making it 'True ', 'Bill Hader' is the top result!
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
by justinclift on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:22AM
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People still use IMDB after they introduced mandatory account registration to even see user reviews?
Seems like someone got updated KPIs and decided to try the most ham-fisted enshittification move to raise registrations. Oh, it is now possible again to see about five top reviews per item. Seems like loss of traffic was rough.