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Yaboze

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
May 31, 2007
799
280
The Garden State
This is specific to iMessage for me.

I don't know what's going on the past few years or iOS releases, but it's just terrible now. It changes perfectly fine words into completely different words and adds punctuation, it's just horrible. I typed the word "funky" and it changed it to "dinky" It also changes errors into completely different words that don't even have the same characters. Is this AI? lol. It worked so much better like 3-4 releases ago.

I don't know what's going on or what Apple changed, almost all of my simple typo errors turn into something so bad, I have to edit the line or retype it.
 

StumpyBloke

macrumors 603
Apr 21, 2012
5,615
6,330
England
This exact issue has been pointed out many times of late. You are absolutely right.

God only knows what is going on with Apple and their punctuation, changing of words, random capitalisation of words but it is no longer fit for purpose. And people are putting stock in AI specifically Apple’s version… LOL they can’t get the basics right! It truly is pathetic and inexcusable!
 

Mr_Knightley

macrumors newbie
Nov 20, 2023
25
40
Essex
Absolutely agree. Underlining words that could be improved, you click on the word and some ridiculous replacement is dropped in and / or the word just vanishes.

And it can't remember the simplest of things. I always sign off with 'John' but it will suggest anything but - 'Jokes', 'Jog', 'Join' ...WTF?
 

A.R.E.A.M.

macrumors 6502
Nov 12, 2015
447
288
Los Angeles, California
This is specific to iMessage for me.

I don't know what's going on the past few years or iOS releases, but it's just terrible now. It changes perfectly fine words into completely different words and adds punctuation, it's just horrible. I typed the word "funky" and it changed it to "dinky" It also changes errors into completely different words that don't even have the same characters. Is this AI? lol. It worked so much better like 3-4 releases ago.

I don't know what's going on or what Apple changed, almost all of my simple typo errors turn into something so bad, I have to edit the line or retype it.
quoting you because i've experienced this in the same time frame as you. one update and bam! weird words, it will auto select a word for no reason, the gibberish words it recommends to auto correct... resetting the dictionary does nothing. ive been noticing this since the 14 pm.
 
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