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iPhone Autocorrect Creator Explains Why it Can ‘Ducking’ Suck at Times [VIDEO]
The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern recently sat down with Ken Kocienda, an ex-Apple engineer who designed the keyboard for the iPhone 2G and created 'Auto-Correction,' as well as other former and current Apple employees to get to the bottom of why autocorrect sometimes trips up. We've all been embarrassed by autocorrect at one point...
Apple’s Autocorrect Feature in iOS Continues to Frustrate
Apple's autocorrect feature on iOS continues to irritate a significant number of users. Sometimes, it seems as if Apple's autocorrect feature on iOS seems to work against you instead of helping you. For a feature that's been around for over ten years, it still severely lacks functionality (via Daring Fireball), and now many people are...
Ex-Apple Engineer Explains Why Autocorrect Makes So Many Frustrating Mistakes
In a recent interview with Business Insider, former Apple engineer Ken Kocienda, who helped the company develop the ‘autocorrect' feature that has been on iPhones for more than a decade, has explained why all these years later the feature still makes so many frustrating mistakes while we text. Kocienda recalls being tasked by Apple to come up with a...
Apple Engineer Who Created iPhone Autocorrect Releases Book ‘Creative Selection’
Today marks the launch of the book Creative Selection, written by the Apple software engineer who created autocorrect for the iPhone, Ken Kocienda. His new book, with its title Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, provides a look into how Apple created its products such as iPhone, iPad and...
Users Complaining About ‘It’ Being Autocorrected to ‘I.T’ on iOS 11
Apple recently addressed a bug that caused the letter "i" to autocorrect to "A[?]” with the release of iOS 11.1.1 and now, hundreds of iPhone users are reporting that the word "it” is autocorrecting to "I.T" on iOS 11 and later. According to MacRumors, when affected users type the word "it" into a text field, the keyboard...
Apple’s Invention Will Change Awkward AutoCorrect in iMessage Forever
A new Apple patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) details a system that highlights any words within a message which have been automatically corrected, essentially notifying the recipient when a mistake has been made by the operating system’s autocorrect feature (via AppleInsider). Apple plans to fix the problem of textual ambiguity frequently...