It went from (iOS 16 and earlier) never letting me type “fuck” and replacing it with “duck” instead to (iOS 17) suggesting and “correcting” what I type with wildly improbable words.
I remember those memes from all those years ago (even from the skeuomorphic days of iOS; 2007-2013) where autocorrect can basically ruin a user's life.
I was an iOS user right until 2015, because I couldn't afford any of the new iPhones, and the old ones were really slow on the then latest version. I had an iPhone 4 at this point.
So I think I always remember iOS's autocorrect being garbage. Either it got better once I left and then suddenly got worse again, or nothing changed at all and it continues to be garbage without ever being good for a day. Can anyone else confirm this?
"Carries" is a nightmare for me. It's not a rare word. Why does autocorrect think I'd ever want " Carrie's"? It's not like that's even a name in my contact list to influence it into ridiculous nonsense.
Happens on Android too. SwiftKey keyboard used to be the shit. I could sloppily mash out a message without even looking at my phone and it would autocorrect everything perfectly 98% of the time. Ever since Microsoft bought it about a decade ago it's been getting worse and worse. I can't type at all on this damn thing without looking directly at the keyboard like I'm still learning how to type. It's infuriating.
I had to reset my keyboard once or twice a month for a while. Finally turned it off because it kept learning that words i often started sentences with should always be capitalized, even in the middle of a sentence. Spent a few weeks constantly correcting my spelling because i had grown heavily dependent on autocorrect, but it was worth it
The only issue I’ve had is it loves to type “phine” instead of “phone” - I added this to text replacement and the problem went away.
“Fir” instead of “for” is still an issue sometimes but I just need to add that one as well. It doesn’t happen frequently enough for me to be bothered yet.