{"id":20465,"date":"2018-02-09T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20465"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:16:31","slug":"ios-auto-correction-from-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/ios-auto-correction-from-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Auto-Correction From Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wil Shipley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Imagine being in charge of an algorithm that hundreds of millions of users depend on every day and saying, “Hey, let’s take any word that’s capitalized in your contacts and just always capitalize it in text messages!”<\/p>\n

“What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Unless you subscribe to ‘One Medical’ or ‘Capital One’ and you ever want to type ‘one’ to someone. But who would do that?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2018-02-13): Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

It’s not just contact names that inform the autocorrect dictionary: any<\/em> capitalized word in a contact record will be fed into the dictionary, as will installed apps. So, if you know someone who works at, say, Apple, or you have the Transit app installed, you will find yourself regularly undoing the automatic capitalization of those words when talking about fruit or the very concept of public transit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-02-28): Mark Rogowsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Forget privacy concerns, iOS does not ever learn that:<\/p>

1) I did not want that proper name from my contacts. I always correct its autocorrect.<\/p>

2) I’ve literally not used that proper name in years.<\/p>

The algorithm has a default problem and a no-learning problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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