{"id":19435,"date":"2017-11-07T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19435"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:58:54","slug":"ios-11-autocorrect-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/ios-11-autocorrect-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 11 Autocorrect Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brett Molina<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Are you having a tough time typing a lowercase “i” on the iPhone lately? It’s not just you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Apple<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

If you updated your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 11.1 and find that when you type the letter “i” it autocorrects to the letter “A” with a symbol, learn what to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Apple suggests creating a text replacement shortcut to swap the letter I<\/code> for the letter i<\/code>. Yeah, really. They also say that they’re going to fix this<\/a> in an update soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>

What I’ve heard is that this is a machine learning problem — that, more or less, for some reason the machine learning algorithm for autocorrect was learning something it never should have learned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2017-11-07): Jeremy Burge<\/a> (via Rosyna Keller<\/a>):<\/p>\n

What’s really going on is that the letter “I” is being appended with an invisible character known as Variation Selector 16<\/a> when auto-correct kicks in to replace the lowercase “i”.<\/p>

This VS-16 character is intended<\/em> to be used to make the previous character have emoji appearance. When used in conjunction with the letter “I” it displays in some apps as “A ⍰”.<\/p>

The correct behaviour should be to ignore the invisible variation selector if the previous character doesn’t have an emoji version.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brett Molina: Are you having a tough time typing a lowercase “i” on the iPhone lately? It’s not just you. Apple (Hacker News): If you updated your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 11.1 and find that when you type the letter “i” it autocorrects to the letter “A” with a symbol, learn what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,1623,131,257,31,1472,258],"class_list":["post-19435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-auto-correction","tag-bug","tag-emoji","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-unicode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19521,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435\/revisions\/19521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}