Iphone autocorrect how does it work

Have you heard this one? A wife sends a text with a photo of herself modeling a new outfit. What is up with this? We find this amusing because we can relate. To be a smartphone user is to accept the ergonomics and software of small touchscreen keyboards. In those early days of work on Purple, the keyboard was a daunting prospect, and we referred to it, often quite nervously, as a science project. More than 10 years after the initial release of the iPhone, the state of the art now is much as it was then.

Of course, the core principle of machine learning is the notion of training. Since then, your iPhone's keyboard has used a machine learning algorithm to predict the word you're typing based on context, and the data Apple has collected and processed locally on your device. The more data Apple has to work with, the more it can predict. So long-time iPhone users with a full address book of names, hundreds of apps installed and regular commutes will feed the algorithm far more than a casual user.

When introduced, the machine learning algorithm seemed far too aggressive, with many online complaining it made autocorrect worse. It even introduced some bizarre bugs that Apple had to publicly address with software updates. After the rough introduction, Apple seems to have toned down the algorithm, and as a heavy iPhone user my experiences have mostly been positive.

If you can't bear to turn autocorrect off, resetting your dictionary may remove some of the weird corrections. Machine learning has enabled the iPhone to correctly predict oddly spelt suburb names like Prahran and Woolloomooloo, to read the screen of an article and guess the surname or product I'm about to Google, and to suggest the spelling Bryan over Brian, because the former is a close friend. The most surprising and welcomed change I've noticed in iOS 13 is my phone no longer autocorrects to 'duck', when the context of the sentence clearly points to another word.

But it has added frustrations, too. After weeks of troubleshooting that included resetting the keyboard and uninstalling any transit apps I thought might be to blame, I realised the culprit. Here, to be appropriate, we'll create the phrase "be right there" and use the shortcut "brt. You could also make "ducking" the shortcut and change the phrase to the word you're probably actually trying to type. This means every time your phone thinks you type "ducking" it'll put the other word in its place.

That's it. Create as many text replacement phrases as you want, especially if you want to turn off autocorrect altogether and use this list to replace typos you know you frequently make. Skip Navigation. Key Points.