I’ve heard pretty much everyone complain about AutoCorrect. There are even websites dedicated to the shame its wrath can bring.
To quote myself earlier this year:
“I wish my iPhone auto correct would sync with my iPad. It’s tiresome having to teach multiple devices how to swear. First world problems…”
I’m Australian, so like it or not, swearing is part of who I am. For years my iPhone has been trying to replace my f-bomb with the word duck – as it turns out, this just makes you angrier. Plus I’m still living in the ’90s, so my regular references to Buddy or Buggy the Vampire Slayer grew old very quickly.
With the recently released iOS 8.4 and iOS 9 just around the corner, I started to wonder why AutoCorrect was still so annoying. So naturally, I turned to Google for the answer – I didn’t find it. What I did find, however, was an article from OSXDaily with instructions on how to reset your keyboard dictionary – you can read it here.
Great, so I’ll try that and then rant about the hilarious results in my blog, I thought. Only trouble was, AutoCorrect now seemed to be behaving itself – with 2 manual overrides (one with a capital and one without), now it only suggested Buffy or buffy, and swear words aren’t getting corrected by default either.
Could this have been a legacy issue from my iPhone 5S, which originally shipped with iOS 7 and has been constantly upgraded since?
Maybe we should all reset before we rant…
