Apple To Stop Autocorrecting Swear Word To 'Ducking' On iPhone - Slashdot
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Apple To Stop Autocorrecting Swear Word To 'Ducking' On iPhone
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you stop second-guessing and sanitizing what people type? If they type fucking, they probably mean it. Nobody needs your fucking PC filters.
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Did you read even the headline?
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Did you even read the article?
From TFA:
In other words, it doesn't stop autocorrecting: it tries to determine when the user really wants to be profane.
And my beef is: a keyboard has no business trying to determine if you really want to be profane or not, and beautify what you type depending on the context. If you mistype "fucking", it should always autocorrect to "fucking" like it would do with any other misspelled word.
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> If you mistype "fucking", it should always autocorrect
> to "fucking"You've not thought that through. Duck and ducking are both real words that one might really intend to type if, say, they're describing their day of photographing waterfowl that day near an a mountain pond which they reached by making their self shorter while walking through a cave that was shorter than they are tall. Without analyzing the context to determine if you really want to be profane; autocorrect has no other way of knowin
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Fixed that for you pathetic human.
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Duck you!
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Duck off
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Apparently, the people who actually matter disagreed for a very long time.
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But then a joke like this wouldn't work anymore:
A priest, a pastor and a rabbit go into a bar. Said the bartender "Sorry, no animals allowed ", said the rabbit "damn antisemitic autocorrect!"
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Holy sheet, has no one ever looked up 'ducking' in a NSFW dictionary of sex?
And Apple were doing this the whole time.
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Does it involve a very large bill?
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Ducking A!!!
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For duck's sake that took long enough.
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Too ducking late. Left your stupid, crappy walled garden party a while ago, over all your bullspite and I'm never coming back. Even if you stop spying on your users and put headphone jacks back in. Duck you, Apple. (BTW, there was a fix for auto "correct" for "swears" I found a long time ago. You just create entries in your autocorrect manual list. You tell it to automatically replace the word "fuck" with the word "fuck", the word "cunt" with "cunt", etc. Worked ducking fine.)
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If you make contacts with names that include your profanities of choice, your phone will stop arguing with you about what you're typing. At least, it does on Android.
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Simple fix for this years ago.
Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement
Simply set one for "ducking" to change it to the word you want. Also great to turn your shorthand into words of sentences. Type OMG and it types out Oh My God.
Lots of fun if you can get your hands on a friends phone. Have it change their spouses name to something else. Have it change the word "love" to "hate" and much more.
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Text replacement is not a solution for pointless censorship. My phone keyboard has tickbox to not autocorrect profanity. No need for a walled garden to protect me from bad words.
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I simply turned ducking autocorrect OFF completely on my iPhone years ago. Not because of the ducking issue; but because I use a lot of jargon words, and I got tired of changing things back twice to override it.
BTW, it still gives you the red dotted underline if it thinks you mistiped something, and even still puts its suggestions above the keyboard (which actually is occasionally helpful; but it doesn't actually change anything automatically. IMHHO, kind of the Best of both Worlds; at least for me.
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When I get a new phone (not an iPhone, but), I do this:
1: Ensure autocorrect is off.
2: Ensure auto-capitalization is off.
3: Replace the stock text entry keyboard (with this [google.com]) so I have a keyboard that isn't brain-dead. Cursor controls, delete key, etc., plus way quicker to type non-alpha characters with. [Github source here [github.com]]
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Because when I want to talk about the former name of a particular village in Austria [wikipedia.org], I don't want it auto-corrected to ducking or Fugging or anything else [wikipedia.org].
That goes for the other village in Austria [wikipedia.org] as well.
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I'm not even on the latest fucking version of iOS (15.0), and I'm having no fucking problem repeatedly typing "fucking" several times for this fucking posting. My fucking understanding was that if you swear a lot on your fucking iPhone, it already learned that you weren't fucking talking about fucking waterfowl.
I assume they've just tweaked the algorithm a bit so you don't have to fight with it so much initially before it accepts that you have a potty mouth. Kind of sad that that's now what passes for a new innovative feature at Apple. Guess all real R&D is going into their scuba goggles these days. Fuck.
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The first rule of waterfowl fornication is not to talk about waterfowl fornication.
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Language!
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Actually my wife had quite to opposite experience on an iPhone - she sent a text message to a friend saying "I'm ducking down to the shops before you arrive", and it got autocorrected to "fucking". Much mirth, of course, and we just assumed that perhaps the majority of uses of duck were fuck mispelled.
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Fuckers couldn't R&D their way out of a wet paper bag, in my fucking opinion. Certainly, autocorrect gets in the fucking way. I don't even use it on my fucking mobile 'phone because it fucking gets in my way. I swear, the day that autocorrect arrives on my desktop will be the day I throw it out the fucking window.
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awe, I kinda loved this bug actionally
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For fuck's sake, I think it's about fucking time that those fuckers at Hasbro quit fucking around and let fuck be a Scrabble word.
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Dornication
Under
Consent of
King
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If you don't want to go that far with your sweetheart, Bavaria has a place for you [wikipedia.org].
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Are we going to run a story every time some company debugs part of their crappy code?
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Apparently. Nothing really happening anymore in the software space, it seems.
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I liked it better when it auto corrected Kardashian to lardass.
It autocorrects satan as Satan but not god.
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I have my Android phone configured for autosuggest - I get a list of words that changes as I type more characters, and I can either select one or just continue typing whatever the hell I want.
I prefer the ownership relationship balanced heavily toward me owning my devices, rather than the other way around.
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Yes. I turned autocorrect off on iPhonefor years now(although it seems to be creeping back in i some weird ways where it changes whole sentences) But the problem with iPhone autocorrect is it changes what you write instead of letting you change it I.e you have to assert the negative by Xâ(TM)ing the new word instead of confirming positively the word you want i still end up with mistakes here and there but they are genuine typos (in the trie sense of the word) and not completely different words
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It's about ducking time!
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Horrific deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!
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That was one of the few times I liked autocorrect!
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I wish the spell checkers would add common medical and medication terms to their dictionaries, or at least stop auto-correcting from common prescription medication names to nonsense without asking. Their negligence kills people.
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Every time I text 'bitch' (only when deserved) it is changed to 'batch'.
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Apple has a culture problem. Well, they probably have more than one culture problem. But the pedantry to disallow their customers from typing certain words, not once or twice but every time, indicates that they don't respect their customers. Sometimes issues are just hard to fix and don't affect that many people, but this isn't one of those cases.
Lack of respect is far from the worst problem a company can have, but it's one more factor that makes me feel a little dirty about the idea of buying their product
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Where can I see a video of the presentation of this new feature?
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Not that I use profanity much, but my Android phone autocorrects duck to fuck.
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