Mar 06 09

Unfair iPhone Word Completion

By Chris

Perhaps those of us who own them will have noticed a few odd quirks in the iPhones text prediction system. I know my friend Tim complains often enough about such quirks he finds to Twitter Winking

What I find rather interesting is the ability for the predictive text system to learn new words and corrections of spellings. The system has learned of my girlfriends name "Risa". That's great, it even capitalises it for me when I type it in lower case which is indeed a handy function. However, my name, an English name instead of a Japanese one which I'm guessing was already in it's dictionary never gets offered the privilege of being correctly capitalised. Only recently has it seemed to have been able to actually learn my name too. For a long time typing my name would produce errors.

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Now as if this behaviour was not bad enough, the iPhone does something which can only ever be seen as unforgivable and it does it only too often. I'm English, I speak original and traditional English and drink tea too. Yet the iPhone does not care, no it mocks my very language with an insult of the highest calibre. It insists I spell incorrectly like an American -oh the woeful sorrow! Cry

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So... how do I rectify these inhumane crimes against my person? Does anyone know how to force the iPhone to learn how to spell correctly? I tried typing in "summarise" again and again but it just wont listen. Is there some dictionary file to edit?


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