{"id":26730,"date":"2019-09-27T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26730"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:29:29","slug":"ios-13-autocorrect-is-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/ios-13-autocorrect-is-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2019\/09\/ios_13_autocorrect_is_drunk\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2019\/09\/ios_13_autocorrect_is_drunk\">\n<p>One thing I and others have noticed is that when you type a dictionary word correctly&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;meaning you hit the exact right keys on the on-screen keyboard&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;iOS 13 autocorrect will replace it with a different dictionary word that makes no contextual sense. Even beyond dictionary words, I&rsquo;m seeing really strange corrections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this has been going on since before iOS 13.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/17\/three-ios-keyboard-changes-apple-should-make\/\">Three iOS Keyboard Changes Apple Should Make<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/ios-auto-correction-from-contacts\/\">iOS Auto-Correction From Contacts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/learning-with-privacy-at-scale\/\">Learning With Privacy at Scale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/ios-11-autocorrect-bug\/\">iOS 11 Autocorrect Bug<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/ios-10-notes\/\">iOS 10 Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-13-autocorrect-is-drunk-update-2019-10-11\">Update (2019-10-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philip_a\/status\/1177919181397909504\">Philip<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philip_a\/status\/1177919181397909504\">\n<p>It is so bad. I could rely on iOS 12 to propose the right words and correct typos. iOS 13 feels like I have to re-teach the AI. Also umlauts in German are a mess. It never propose the right word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1177659138861654019\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1177659138861654019\">\n<p>iOS 11 is when they switched to a &ldquo;machine learning&rdquo; based autocorrect engine, which is the cause of all this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/8574\">Riccardo Mori<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/8574\">\n<p>That&rsquo;s why after switching from my iPhone 5 with iOS 10 to the new iPhone 8 with iOS 12, my initial impressions were that autocorrect was simply worse and felt &lsquo;untrained&rsquo;. I didn&rsquo;t realise that what messed things up was the keyboard switching while writing a word.<\/p>\n<p>But even within a single language, autocorrect under iOS 12 does indeed feel less smart than under iOS 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: One thing I and others have noticed is that when you type a dictionary word correctly&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;meaning you hit the exact right keys on the on-screen keyboard&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;iOS 13 autocorrect will replace it with a different dictionary word that makes no contextual sense. Even beyond dictionary words, I&rsquo;m seeing really strange corrections. 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