{"id":31066,"date":"2020-12-17T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31066"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:43:07","slug":"ios-autocorrect-and-the-delete-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/17\/ios-autocorrect-and-the-delete-key\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Autocorrect and the Delete Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hankgreen\/status\/1338871135119667201\">Hank Green<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hankgreen\/status\/1338871135119667201\">\n<p>On Android, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, the moment you hit backspace it changes back. On iPhone, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, and you delete it and retype it IT WILL CHANGE IT AGAIN TO THE EXACT SAME WRONG WORD.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kocienda\/status\/1338921120762798080\">Ken Kocienda<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kocienda\/status\/1338921120762798080\">\n<p>When I created the original iPhone autocorrection code, I treated the delete key as an important signal, and I made sure that the software didn&rsquo;t offer the same correction after a delete.<\/p>\n<p>Not doing the wrong thing was just as important to me as doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/ios-13-autocorrect-is-drunk\/\">iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk<\/a><\/li>\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<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Green: On Android, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, the moment you hit backspace it changes back. On iPhone, if you type a word and it wrongfully autocorrects it, and you delete it and retype it IT WILL CHANGE IT AGAIN TO THE EXACT SAME WRONG WORD. Ken Kocienda: When [&hellip;]<\/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":"2020-12-17T21:43:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"dcc5be8c-8c64-4d01-a8e3-1e3daf4f2376","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-17T21:43:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3MW-jIxkTQGo4x49r08jdg","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":[1351,1623,295,31,1837],"class_list":["post-31066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-auto-correction","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-ios-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31066","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=31066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31067,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31066\/revisions\/31067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}