iOS Get iOS to recognize brand and company names with proper capitalization

[applesith]

I've looked online and cannot find documentation or information as to someone can get Apple to recognize a word or phrase as brand with proper capitalization in iOS. I've seen some brands auto-correct to proper capitalization while others don't.

Is this done by adding to a user's iOS dictionary when installing your app, or is there a way to get submit this information to Apple directly such as application?

Many thanks.

 

[Dookieman]

I believe this is Apple's domain. I'm not sure if there is a way to add your own proper nouns to the internal dictionary, but I would be surprised if there was. It's integrated into the OS itself and apps as far as I know, can't access a specific dictionary.

Good luck with having Apple edit their dictionary as well, I can't see them being very open to just accepting any old words as proper nouns without them being a well know, established company or product.

 

[Mascots]

Apps have access to the class UITextChecker which allows you to insert words into a user's autocomplete dictionary.

A lot of the detailed bits around its interaction wit the system seem undocumented, but it's been confirmed that calling learnWord(_: ) will propagate device wide. unlearnWord(_: ) works in the same manner, but will only remove words that were initially learned by only your app. And finally ignoreWord(_: ) is bound only to the instance of UITextChecker you've created.

 

[Dookieman]

Apps have access to the class UITextChecker which allows you to insert words into a user's autocomplete dictionary.

A lot of the detailed bits around its interaction wit the system seem undocumented, but it's been confirmed that calling learnWord(_: ) will propagate device wide. unlearnWord(_: ) works in the same manner, but will only remove words that were initially learned by only your app. And finally ignoreWord(_: ) is bound only to the instance of UITextChecker you've created.

Good to know!

 

[applesith]

Apps have access to the class UITextChecker which allows you to insert words into a user's autocomplete dictionary.

A lot of the detailed bits around its interaction wit the system seem undocumented, but it's been confirmed that calling learnWord(_: ) will propagate device wide. unlearnWord(_: ) works in the same manner, but will only remove words that were initially learned by only your app. And finally ignoreWord(_: ) is bound only to the instance of UITextChecker you've created.

Ah thank you. I had a feeling it could be done once you have an app installed. I wish apple offered a paid submission to have brands better understood by Siri and autocorrect.

 

[dejo]

A lot of the detailed bits around its interaction wit the system seem undocumented, but it's been confirmed that calling learnWord(_: ) will propagate device wide. unlearnWord(_: ) works in the same manner, but will only remove words that were initially learned by only your app. And finally ignoreWord(_: ) is bound only to the instance of UITextChecker you've created.

Are those private API calls?

 

[Mascots]

Are those private API calls?

Nah. They are very public — UITextChecker's systemwide effect is missing from the documentation, though.