Comments on: Teach iPhone AutoCorrect New Words By Repetition

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:02:01 +0000

This does not work with dictation or correction of names. No matter how many times you correct one spelling to the other, the system does not recognize the corrected spelling as the default.

By: Shannan

Shannan — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:34:13 +0000

It does do that. I thought I was going mad.

By: Jemster

Jemster — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:39:51 +0000

Yeah but what about it’s annoying habit of changing perfectly valid words into other perfectly valid words – do / to / so / no and is / if are particularly irritating.

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:58:19 +0000

I’m Afrikaans and I use the word “moet” (must) every day. Every time I type “moet” iOS gives me Moët… I’m so sick of seeing Moët that I think I’ll get nauseous when someone has to pour me a glass of Moët. I have just tried this little trick by typing “moet” TWENTY times and I still get Moët.

So far the only thing that worked for me was to create an keyboard shortcut to convert “miet” (mites) to “moet”. God forbid I ever have to type something about mites in future. *sigh*

I wish there was a way that we could edit the dictionary and take out silly words like Moët (unless you want to add it of course.

By: HomeIon

HomeIon — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:11:22 +0000

Sorry, didn’t see Adams note before submitting.

By: HomeIon

HomeIon — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:09:35 +0000

Or you can use Shortcuts so every time you star writing Kuro it will suggest Kurosawa.

Preferences, general, keyboard, shortcuts

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:36:28 +0000

The best way I found to hack around the auto correct is the built in keyboard shortcuts feature.

For example I always use the word ‘aight’ but it always corrected to ‘sight’ so I went into keyboard shortcuts and made one ai = aight. not only is it more efficient to type now but it also recognizes aight as a word.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:44:39 +0000

it doesn’t work for many German words either. for example the German word “ah” (meaning something like hmmm) is always autocorrected to “äh” (meaning: i didn’t understand)
or dufte (=cute”) to düfte (“smells”)
i typed it in a 100 times and pressed the x. it’s still autocorrected.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:57:28 +0000

Unfortunately this doesn’t work with the name Peta. I have three friends of that name, one is my boss. I write it a lot and tried the technique above. After 30 times, still it corrected as PETA. I hope none I them own an iPhone…