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iOS has the worst autocorrect

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desura

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"USB" is rendered as "sub". lots of nonsense. if autocorrect is indication of their abilities for AI, iOS is easily the worst. Worse than windows or android.
 
Uh, I think it is very well done. If USB really bothers you then just go into the keyboard menu and tell the phone to correct USB to USB.
 
I've never really had an issue with the iOS keyboard, and once you type something the same way enough times, it learns it. I can safely just stab my fingers at the keyboard in the general vicinity of what I want, and it shakes out the right words... 90% of the time. That's JUST ballistic pecking. When I'm typing with purpose, it's 99% accurate. And, it gets "its" vs "it's" correct basically 100% of the time, it's black magic.
 
desura said:
"USB" is rendered as "sub". lots of nonsense. if autocorrect is indication of their abilities for AI, iOS is easily the worst. Worse than windows or android.
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I bet people type "sub" much more frequently than they type "USB"

TheStu said:
I've never really had an issue with the iOS keyboard, and once you type something the same way enough times, it learns it. I can safely just stab my fingers at the keyboard in the general vicinity of what I want, and it shakes out the right words... 90% of the time. That's JUST ballistic pecking. When I'm typing with purpose, it's 99% accurate. And, it gets "its" vs "it's" correct basically 100% of the time, it's black magic.
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Switching from Google Keyboard on an Android phone recently to iOS, I believe the iOS keyboard does a better job of picking words based on context. Google Keyboard frequently wanted to use words that, while similar, would make no sense in the context of the sentence.
 
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tsupersonic said:
Alternatively, use a third party keyboard. Swiftkey has an excellent prediction engine.
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Word prediction is something entirely different than autocorrect though. iOS didn't have prediction until last year (which coincidentally is when they started allowing third party keyboard).
 
deathBOB said:
I bet people type "sub" much more frequently than they type "USB"
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I came home and immediately threw my sub drive on the desk. All I wanted to do was take it and thrust my it into my sub socket. I couldn't do it the first time so I had to flip my sub over and keep trying to jam it in the hole.
 
Midwayman said:
I came home and immediately threw my sub drive on the desk. All I wanted to do was take it and thrust my it into my sub socket. I couldn't do it the first time so I had to flip my sub over and keep trying to jam it in the hole.
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Hi, I'm your average non-tech person. I much prefer sub sandwiches over USB sandwiches, and even if something is sub-optimal it makes more sense than something being USB-optimal.
 
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Both USB and sub should be accurately corrected for. Even iPhone users are familiar with USB since Lightning charging cables terminate with it. What kind of useless autocorrect changes USB to sub or vice versa?
 
It does have a worse autocorrect and a worse voice recognition in my experience. 3rd party keyboards have their own issues. (bugs and lags, mostly)
 
Opposite for me. One of the main reasons for my switch to iOS from Android was because I couldn't stand Android auto-correct.
 
Yes, iOS autocorrect is pure bollocks!!
Surprisingly, Windows Mobile has really good autocorrect and good predictability with their "swipe" keyboard
 
I use SwiftKey on my iPhone 6 Plus and Nexus 6P and set them up the same way. Autocorrect and frequently used words function the same between the two phones for me.

iOS forces the stock keyboard for passwords but other than that SwiftKey works excellent on either platform.
 
Radeon962 said:
I use SwiftKey on my iPhone 6 Plus and Nexus 6P and set them up the same way. Autocorrect and frequently used words function the same between the two phones for me.

iOS forces the stock keyboard for passwords but other than that SwiftKey works excellent on either platform.
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I have not found that to be the case, at all. It doesn't matter what 3rd party keyboard I use with my iDevices, they all exhibit the same, annoying bugs. Keyboards not showing up when they should, laggy performance, etc. These are deal breakers for me, when it comes to phone keyboards I rely heavily on swipe style typing and it needs to "just work." In my experience the Google Keyboard is the only one that consistently "just works." Swiftkey for Android is good if you don't do swipe style typing regularly.
 
I have Android and word prediction is not the best...although spell-correction is good. I used to have a Windows Phone, and it was far superior in word prediction and spell-correction.
 
Red Storm said:
I have not found that to be the case, at all. It doesn't matter what 3rd party keyboard I use with my iDevices, they all exhibit the same, annoying bugs. Keyboards not showing up when they should, laggy performance, etc. These are deal breakers for me, when it comes to phone keyboards I rely heavily on swipe style typing and it needs to "just work." In my experience the Google Keyboard is the only one that consistently "just works." Swiftkey for Android is good if you don't do swipe style typing regularly.
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I've not noticed anymore lag with swiftkey on my 6 Plus than on my 6P. They both work fine and Swype is my primary method on either phone. I'm using the Minimal Coal theme and it looks great.
 
maevinj said:
Yes, iOS autocorrect is pure bollocks!!
Surprisingly, Windows Mobile has really good autocorrect and good predictability with their "swipe" keyboard
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It really makes me think that ms and Google have the real geek cred, while macs are better for...aesthetics and marketing. Also, Tim cook's Apple makes moves like acquiring beats audio. Steve jobs did stuff like acquiring pa semi and pushing for gapless (autocorrected as "hapless", damn you autocorrect) playback
 
I agree on the autocorrect thing. When I use the wife's iPhone it drives me nuts.

I have no idea how she types so damn fast on it.
 
I personally think the autocorrect on my iPhone 6 is far better than Google Keyboard. Fleksy or Swiftkey are a different story, but just plain out of the box default apps? The iOS keyboard is far superior in autocorrect.

I used to laugh that Google needed to give 3 suggestions in the bar because the prediction/autocorrect algorithms were so bad.
 
Also I personally believe Google's design team is retarded when it comes to design with the Google Keyboard. It just basically scales continuously. I personally find it more and more difficult to type with larger phones because your thumbs aren't used to moving up and down that much.

I always suspected that Apple didn't just vertically scale the keyboard, so I decided to take some measurements.

You can see here where the Android keyboards just scale vertically whereas Apple seems to maintain similar heights. Maybe I was off for the 6 Plus, but it's odd how the keyboard height jumps in size.

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The results confirm what I noticed. I loved the Nexus S for typing, but the N4 was OK too, but going to the N5 and certainly the OnePlus One and now my Nexus 6P, its very hard to type. I frequently miss the spacebar because the keyboard is too tall.
 
You're more likely to be typing 'I'm so glad I got rid of that sub-standard android phone and switched to iOS' than anything relating to USB I would have thought.
 
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