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iPhone users rejoice! A simple workaround has been found to allow your iPhone to recognise naughty words without autocorrecting them. The hack is to add a new contact to the phone with the lowercase version of the ducking word the ducking autocorrect keeps ducking up. Wash rinse repeat for any other word the iPhone auto-correct doesn't ducking like.
<sarcasm>Alternatively, switch to a real mobile OS like Android which has entirely different ways to disrespect its users.</sarcasm>
[Or adapt the quaint example so ably employed in this story submission. --Ed.]
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:36PM (2 children)
can someone answer his question?
I dont have an apple anything myself, and thought the custom/personal dictionary would handle any problems like this.
there are many many industry jargon terms that won't in in the mass market dictionary. if we cant add new terms (or if the obscenity police are filtering the words regardless of a custom dictionary entry) that would be helpful to know going forward.
eventually i gotta get a new phone and this will influence how i expect to use it. or hold out for as long as 3g is still offered as a service type...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday January 26 2019, @10:28PM (1 child)
Last I knew, there wasn't really a way to edit a "personal dictionary" on an iPhone directly. There are various hacks and workarounds where you can input words somewhere and fix them when your phone tries to correct them, and thereby hope your phone "catches on." I haven't tried any of these recently (as I don't currently use an iPhone), but my sense was that they never worked 100%.
The hack in TFA here where you add a contact with a word or proper name you don't want to be autocorrected has been known for many years, though it seems like a desperate solution.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday January 26 2019, @10:34PM
Actually, from some searching, there appears to be a setting for you to set up custom "shortcuts" and "replacements" which can be used to curb some of iPhone's bad behavior... But my recollection trying these things years ago was again that the phone didn't always obey them.