Fix iPhone Autocoreet Pleaese
Joanna Stern chose to use the first post-announcement post on her new site to return to a familiar issue that remains unresolved:
Here’s my main question: John Ternus, can you turn-us the iPhone autocorrect around?
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Over the last few months, I’ve noticed more autocorrect mishaps on my iPhone 17 Pro. And I’m not alone. (I’ve also had some nasty battery drain after recent iOS 26 updates, but that’s another story for another time.) Plenty of people have complained to me about autocorrect problems. And I see the folks I’m texting with quickly correcting messages because their iPhone mangled the message.
To be fair, Apple addressed part of the problem in iOS 26.4. I’ll get to that below. But to suggest iPhone autocorrect is now fixed—or works as well as it once did—is like suggesting Siri is a genius.
Alas, New Things has no RSS feed.
Previously:
- John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook
- iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4
- iOS 18 and iOS 26 Autocorrect
- Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others
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Unrelated to atuocorercet, the design of New Things is … geocities expired?
It greatly irked and intrigued me at the same time haha.
Getting Joshua Topolsky vibes from the site's needlessly needless overdesign, and no RSS is baffling too. With all due respect to New Things, some Old Things are great!
No RSS makes it a dealbreaker for me.
I like Joanna Stern, she’s an entertaining writer – although I am perhaps more technical than her target audience. All I will say is: I just renewed my ArsTechnica subscription for $25/year (they are great) and she charges $100/year. I wish her luck with that.
As much as this site looks like something I might be interested in, no RSS feed means I’m never going to see the articles regularly.
I agree with others noting the lack of RSS feed, and I'll add there is a means to contact them about this omission:
>Have a question? A complaint? An urgent need to tell us about a problem with your iPhone? We want to hear it.
>Drop us a note at humans@thenewthings.com.
Typos are simple to fix, trivial in fact. A qwerty keyboard + language = 'we know what you were trying to type'.
Apple and iOS autocorrect is geared towards fixing spoken words. And steers the user to use voice. It wants frustrated typers. I'd bet my life, or a trillion dollars (to my family) on being correct.
