I do feel like autocorrect has been getting consistently worse over the last 2 years.
+1 to this. Tried a bunch of FOSS keyboards and switched to HeliBoard because of it! Wouldn’t you know, autocorrect experience improved 😮💨
Microsoft used to have a word flow keyboard I absolutely adored and they killed it. I miss it terribly.
SwiftKey! I loved that keyboard and you’re right, they killed it.
No the curved thing. The corner was the space bar, the keyboard bend around that corner. You could one hand it better than you can two-hand a modern one on big phones. I LOVED it. I am still violently angry it’s gone.
Just talking about it…wait a second. I need to wipe out a family.
The OG Swype was the best. Used it until it was too old to be installed on current gen android
Still miss it every day I have to use a phone keyboard. Even swiping this text had me re"type" multiple times that I didn’t have to do back in swype days
Using standard gboard, but swiftkey wasn’t really better in my experience
Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.
I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.
I turned off autocorrect and have been disabling it when I see it enabled ever since like the 2nd or 3rd time I caught it replacing a readable typo with the wrong word (either that or “autocorrecting” “bad” words spelled correctly).
I also stopped using autocorrect awhile back and don’t miss it. At all
I fucking hate the policing of words by admin dickheads and corporate censorship algorithms online. Policing other people’s language flies in the face of every freedom and right people have fought and died for. Also the internet is the easiest place to ignore people, give people who care the tools to filter their feeds and comments instead of blanket banning everyone, cause it might upset some vocal minority
The full list: https://swipeblocked.com/list
Created by the one who discovered the list, Derik Kauffman
Of all the most offensive words and slurs, Apple made sure to also block the phrase “iMessage isn’t working”
Yes. Offensive words like corn hole, cop shooting, and accept gays.
Corn hole is offensive to those of us who finally escaped the midwest
I don’t understand how “accept gays” even got on that list.
The king they bowed to has a problem with it
Corps aren’t your friend. Apple is just as shitty as everyone else, they’re just better at hiding it.
what the fuck
I know I’m naive about some things, but this is just… the fuck. changing the word before the most recently swiped word, because together it forms a blocked phrase? that’s just fucked up.
I’m ashamed to say that I truly never thought about the keyboard no longer being safe from interference.
like okay I get that it won’t suggest harmful phrases, sure, maybe I can accept that. but to retroactively edit your inputs… that’s just fucked up.
It’s consistently done that using names with unusual spellings since nearly day 1 - I fought tooth and nail with autocorrect on my iPhone 3GS and finally turned the damned thing off.
NGL, it slowed me down a whole bunch, but also forced me to take my word game up, which I kinda like, actually.
I’ve not used auto-correct for years, I feel it’s the way to go if one wants to avoid this whole word edit fiasco.
Well that list is clearly incomplete; “camel toe” is there, but “moose knuckle” is not. Wont somebody think of the children.
Wow there are a lot of prepositions that one must never come in/on/at/down
Yeah that’s pretty fucking bad. Fucking hate how the corpos have been censoring via autocorrect. And in particular how mundane of shit gets censored. Talking about questioning your sexuality‽ Talking about harmless drugs‽ Insulting Australia‽ We shouldn’t be “protected” from “accidentally” saying such things.
Apple also won’t let you use their object extraction tool to make stickers or remove backgrounds if there is any sort of nudity in the picture.
I wish all phone keyboards had a easy toggle to turn off all “smart autocorrect” features so it types exactly what you entered with no changes when you want to
That’s already how it normally works if you just press buttons. This is for swipe-typing, which has to be “smart” because you swipe across many buttons and it has to figure out what you meant.
Even when you type one character at a time most keyboards including apples try to autocorrect what you type, especially if you use more than one language or use uncommon slang
Hmm, ok. I use Gboard and it doesn’t do that.
Limits like this should have opt-out. People deserve to call out those pigs freely and with proper spelling!
pigs out here catching strays
Motorola is releasing a phone with graphene OS… That’s all I’m saying.
It’s also like $2000
And made by Lenovo.
Ya… I don’t know how much of that is the ram shortage or corporate greed.
Please let Fairphone and Graphene have a kid.
That would be so amazing
For Android, there’s the Heliboard keyboard which is open-source and really good, doesn’t compare with other FOSS keyboards I’ve used. My only gripe is that it doesn’t do multilingual suggestions, you have to keep switching the keyboard language to get the correct suggestions.
Heliboard does now support multi-language suggestions, I should know, I use Heliboard myself. Maybe it is a new update, dunno?
Under “Languages & Layouts” and your preferred layout tap left and then you should see “Multilingual typing”, where you can select your other languages. :)
I could kiss you right now, thanks!
What a bunch of weighed anchors.
I used to use swiftkey keyboard (Microsoft product, I know it was sinful), but it would automatically capitalize god, christianity, and christmas no matter how many times I corrected (or un-corrected?) it. I also found its vocabulary to be lacking past a certain point.
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Sounds like BS. 100,000 words and phrases? Looks like more commonly written phrases always win over similar, less common ones. You can probably find millions of such less common phrases. It doesn’t mean they are actually listed somewhere in the system.
Did you read the article? It says he found the list
The source article from routers covers this better:
His curiosity piqued, Kauffman said he used a combination of OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code to hunt for a reason why, eventually stumbling on a compendium stored “deep in the bowels” of Apple’s operating system. He said there were different ways to count the number of gray-listed words and phrases and their various permutations, but a conservative estimate would put them at about 100,000
So he’s talking about phrases and permutations in multiple languages. I guess 100k can make sense in that context. They also link to this. It explains how some words are tagged as “sensitive”. It just sounds like they want to make sure the keyboard doesn’t autocorrect to something offensive. I think there are about 100k bigger issues than that.
Disgusting. I always turn it off when I can find the setting, it should not be the default.
