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iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: At least a few hundred iPhone users and counting have complained about the word "it" autocorrecting to "I.T" on iOS 11 and later. When affected users type the word "it" into a text field, the keyboard first shows "I.T" as a QuickType suggestion. After tapping the space key, the word "it" automatically changes to "I.T" without actually tapping the predictive suggestion. A growing number of iPhone users have voiced their frustrations about the issue on the MacRumors discussion forums, Twitter, and other discussion platforms on the web since shortly after iOS 11 was released in late September. Many users claim the apparent autocorrect bug persists even after rebooting the device and performing other basic troubleshooting. A temporary workaround is to tap Settings: General: Keyboard: Text Replacement and enter "it" as both the phrase and shortcut, but some users insist this solution does not solve the problem. A less ideal workaround is to toggle off auto-correction and/or predictive suggestions completely under Settings: General: Keyboard. MacRumors reader Tim shared a video that highlights the issue.
Turns out the thing we needed to fear most from AI was not global thermonuclear war, but instead random jerkery in our everyday lives.
In 10 years i.t will be like every day is April Fools day - and not in a good way.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
A smartphone maker confuses it for I.T. and it's front page news? Sounds more like the reddit/funny page.
Capitalization is screwed in iOS 11, too. It's constantly capitalizing things in the middle of a sentence, which appear as though they may have been things that were capitalized at the beginning of a sentence at some point in the past. It's pretty annoying to have to constantly fix You or Work in the middle of sentences practically every time it is typed.
If anyone was wondering what first world problems looks like, you've fucking found it.
At least we can rest easily knowing that [random master narcissist] will be voted President of the United States based on nothing more than social media popularity, elected by the YOLO generation.
That is all. WTF?
BlameBillCosby.com
Apple adherents need to recognize that their beloved brand is becoming shite, and this is because of the love.
A corporation is not a person, it has no feelings, it is an automaton with a beowulf cluster of organic components.
Quality comes from pressure, without pressure you just get a loose hot mess. The love fest needs to end and rigorous feedback about sillyness like removing headphone jacks, software bugs, privacy violation etc etc must enter the forefront and be backed up by people NOT purchasing a sub par product based on brand name alone.
This issue affects far more than apple though, it is a symptom of a greater disease of apathy which currently affects vehicle manufacture (john deer tractors to farmers who need to repair their vehicles "fuck you"), pharmaceutical industries (Purdue Pharma to patients about the opiod crisis "fuck you"), chemical industries (Scotts Miracle Grow Company to farmers about their products causing cancer "fuck you"), entertainment industry (Sony to the public about root kits on their cds "fuck you").
Most properly our governmental bodies should be protecting us, but they are not, and in many cases are either funded by or hold stock in these same corporations. This leaves only us to respond to these companies with a very large "FUCK YOU" by avoiding their products into oblivion and being vocal about their failings.
The man who invented Autocorrect
has died. Restaurant in peace.
—Anonymous
Good thing you weren't expecting a smart phone for your money.
Correct form: IdioTs.
they should call someone in it to look into that. Sorry, i mean it. It. IT. DammI.T.
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Auto-correct can indeed be very annoying. I instead prefer a "suggest mode", similar to the blue-squiggly grammar check markers in MS-Word. (Spelling errors are red squigglies.)
On a smart-phone, this could be implemented by listing suggestions or alternatives in a bar below the text-entry box if one puts the cursor on a phrase with blue-squigglies or equivalent.
(I don't know if IOS has a comparable option; I haven't used Apple devices in a while.)
Table-ized A.I.
I'm using an iPhone and I.T.â(TM)s working fine.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
If anything, apathy is only affecting manufacturers in that they can be lazy and still sell product. Those that are infected by apathy are actually we, as consumers, who simply live with this shit, eat it, and are all too happy to buy more of it. We as consumers need to me more discerning and choose better.
It is amazing how many poorly designed products people are willing to live with. As an example I give you the clock radio, they used to be simple to use with enough buttons to easily do anything you wanted while still half asleep in the dark. Today the options all mostly suck, every single one has reduced the button count to about five, of which half you have to know what mode the thing is in, or sub function you happen to be in to operate the thing. The remaining buttons are usually tap to do this or press and hold to do that - so much fun when half asleep. The one I wound up with if you press the snooze button more than once you start adjusting the brightness - wtf. Feature-itis is killing what was once good designs, and we are simply living with it.
You wish, buddy!
"Fringe group of fearful willful masochists" is more realistic nowadays.
It is by *far* more of a hassle than it ever helps!
It's like you counting, and Mr "Clippy", next to you, constantly going 5, 27, 39, 1, 72, 138, 42, 7, ...!
At least until you strangle him to death.
I declare that if you leave that on, you have officially revoked being a human. And have become a tool, in the literal sense.
Yeah.. and every time I try to send an email on my Samsung Android tablet... about arrival time... ETA becomes era unless I stop to press the "ignore/skip" icon.
We are as already discussed... both the victor and the victim of autocorrect =P
android has had this for years
When you take the phone from light to dark or dark to light areas while it is unlocked and the sensor is exposed, the screen locks up for 15-20 seconds. App freezes, bottom button becomes non-functional, and the side button turns off the screen... but wonâ(TM)t turn it back on.
Easy to replicate, it happens 100% of the time on a fully patched iPhone 7s.
Not just live with. It is getting to a point where these products are required to remain competitive in the workforce. My concern is that the employee is more dispensible than the disagreeable technology.
I'd just as soon drop Windows and all mainstream tech, but my job in I.T. is kind of dependent on it.
5S, iOS 11.1.2. Itâ(TM)s not doing the IT thing for me. But then again, u donâ(TM)t use QuickType at all, itâ(TM)s turned off.
What is this, 2004 on a Razr with a number keypad only?! Why the need for a predictive keyboard?
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
With things like clock radios (and in fact pretty much any tech that has been basically mature since ye olden times) you're better off buying from a thrift store than new. You'll have more options, more styles to choose from, better quality, cheaper prices, more likely to be repairable (if that floats your boat), and a much better chance finding something that has a non-sucky user interface however you choose to define it.
Personally I stopped buying new microwaves after a run of them died on me after about 18 months use: now I have a very stylish fake wood-grain finish 80s model that looks retro-cool, works like a champ, and has served me well for the last 6 years. Total cost: $10.
You're holding I.T wrong.
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It is not a bug.
I.T. is a feature
It is what IT is.
Some words are short like "DND" and it autocorrects them to "end".
Other word are long and obviously misspelled like "p4oblem" or "pro3lem" yet it can't correct them-- it can't even suggest a correction. it often acts like the first letters are correct and doesn't even consider words one letter off.
It's fairly accurate (like 97%+) so it is constantly stabbing me in the back because it's good enough to trust and then bam- it autocorrects an unexpected word.
And no documentation on how to use it that I've seen.
I imagine apple is much the same but with different details.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
iphone 6s Plus with iOS 11.1.2 and it stays as it when I type it. Trie it, It, and IT with no attempt by the OS to change it to I.T.
Increasing the company's stock price trumps all other considerations. "Make the product better to make more money," or Ford's old, "Quality is Job #1" marketing motto, and such other ideas died a generation ago. Now it's, "Good enough + cheaper to make == more profits. Cut something else in the next quarter to keep feeding the beast."
Medium and large corporations swear by that philosophy, and it eventually permeates every small successful business as soon as they have an IPO and sell out to the market.
Why would people think that?
It depends on what the meaning of "it" is.
- Bill
That made me laugh, and made me curious, "what's up with the capitalization of the Constitution? I looked it up.
In the 1700s, it was common / correct to capitalize nouns in English. It still is in other languages, such as German. The practice was fading in the late 1700s, so like the Oxford comma today, it was arguable. Morris, who wrote the Constitution itself, chose to capitalize nouns. Two years later, they decided on the newer style for the Bill of Rights and used lower case. Just as today a document that isn't supposed to used Oxford comma may have one slip in accidentally, there are some inconsistencies in capitalizing nouns in the Constitution.
On the Oxford comma - sometimes it's needed for clarity. Sometimes it needs to be avoided for clarity. Just make the sentence clear.
Suffice to say, "it" is one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear. And if the Knights of Ni are not appeased, well, they will say "Ni!" again to them.
I've seen this happen to products. It's generally down to not having a UX designer. Yes, those guys that everyone hates do actually have a useful function.
Device I did some firmware for was a hand-held programming unit. Point it at another device and it programs the time and various other parameters into it, kinda like a smart remote control.
The LCD on this thing is awful. The hardware guy chose it because it's guaranteed to be available for at least 5 years. It has 5 buttons, chosen by the sales team because more than 5 was "confusing" and it should be seen as "simple to use".
Of course, it's functionality grew and grew and it quickly ended up with a home screen menu, sub-screens, up/down buttons to enter numbers and text, long press functions, double click functions... Even turning it off requires a long press.
By industry standards it's a great product that everyone loves, which tells you how bad the competition is...
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
...they should have gotten a more expensive phone and not this cheap garbage from Apple! Besides that, they are typing it wrong!
I.T. just works.
http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/category/best-of-dyac/
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Wait a sec... I don't need to take all the blame, y'all probably did it too! Our fault.
That is utter ShI.T.
Witness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Error: NSE - No Signature Error
It makes you wonderwoman whether they ever testicle things before releasing themes.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The quality has really gone to sh I. T.
typed on iPhone OS11
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Same shit in iOS 9 on my hubby's 4S.
Autocorrect is the most annoying thing ever.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
are Knights Who Say Ni involved?
I don't understand why it's I.T and not I.T. where's the missing period. Call Alex Jones because this is the real conspiracy.
Just another second banana
I can't seem to replicate this issue. I wonder if there's something else going on to make this happen to these users. When I type "it" or use "it" in a sentence both of my autocorrect's first response is "it" or "It" if it's the first word in a sentence. This is on an iPhone X running iOS 11.1.2.
Just tried and my iPhone does not do that. Next rumor.
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I've made a copy here so you can see. It's actually worse than I'd have expected him to say.
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Look at how hard he tries to justify the marriage of a 16 year old mexican girl to a 50 year old american. He explains over and over that we're overreacting and that he's not a pedo. But all he does is reveal that he's probably a bigger pedo than we thought and he doesn't even think there is anything wrong with it.
Go away creimer
Of course, assuming you can spell :)
With all due respect, part of the issue is that most people have bigger problems in their lives than how their clock radio behaves. You call it apathy, I call it priority. It's the same reason people still use Windows - it's the de-facto standard and it's what all software and hardware supports, and most people have too many other issues to deal with that they prefer not to deal with those raised by using a niche system like Linux.