iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by vladvasiliu on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:31PM (#49703507)

Windows does this, too. So I really wonder how come two companies implemented the same borked behavior.

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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

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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by WD-42 on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:46PM (#49706709)

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.

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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by selcuka on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:39PM (#49707423)

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.

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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by Intermernet on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:26AM (#49710885)

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.

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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by PalmPilotProMax on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:18AM (#49709359)

I bet it's some obscure MIT/BSD-licensed fuzzy matching library that both macOS and Windows uses.

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