Comments on: Petition to Enable/Disable Auto-Correction – 14,000+ Signatures

By: Jody Mitoma

Jody Mitoma — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:47:39 +0000

I wish I knew why Apple disabled the ability to turn auto-correction on and off.

With a small hack within jailbroken iPhone’s, it is very possible to turn auto-correction on and off using a default iPhone UI slider.

So, the option is “there” in a sense, except really, it’s hidden to the average iPhone user.

By: chistopher

chistopher — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:04:40 +0000

yeah. well i hope for you that apple builds in a switch but i don’t have much hope

By: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:11:09 +0000

Christopher-

I understand, hell I even misspelled ‘mispell’ and I’m American.

It’s pretty weird, though, non-English speakers are the ones who are hurt most by the auto correct but you seem to embrace it.

I, just like the majority on here, am just annoyed with the nuisances that come with the obviously flawed feature. It’s not doing a very good job in ‘correcting’, either.

By: christopher

christopher — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:56:55 +0000

The errors that I made are my fault. I’m French so my English isn’t perfect.

Also if the iPod let’s those errors pass I don’t know why some people have to complain!

By: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:36:53 +0000

Christopher-

I find it very ironic that you support the auto correct feature but at the same time you continue to mispell a handful of words. (while using your iPod)

The whole purpose of this feature is to prevent those spelling errors but somehow you STILL manage to mispell words.

Are you using the feature at all? If not, why exactly are you complaining about the petition?

Yours truly,
-MJ

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:31:48 +0000

Two more errors in your last post, Christopher: ‘acctually’ instead of ‘actually’ and’ usefull’ instead of ‘useful’

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:04:37 +0000

it’s true I found 2 spelling errors. My bad.

And of course an option would be nice but in the end everyone will realize that autocorrect is acctually pretty usefull.

No need for a petition really.

By: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:49:23 +0000

Christopher-

I’m guessing you disagree on having the ability to turn auto correct ‘off’ (I’m honestly not sure, though…)

But judging by your posts, (which you said you’ve typed on your iPod) the auto correct feature doesn’t seem like it’s doing a very good job.

But regardless, not all people, like you, necessarily WANT (or for that matter need) the feature, so why NOT have the option at least?

-MJ

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:05:08 +0000

like I said this is crap. I use English, Dutch, French and german and it work exactly the same way.

By: Jody Mitoma

Jody Mitoma — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:02:10 +0000

Christopher, what’s being said here is that anyone that does not use the English language as their primary tongue will have difficulty typing SMS and e-mail with the iPhone because Apple has apparently not slapped in support for auto-correction for any other language except for English. This makes it hard for folks of any other language to type in full words because the iPhone auto-corrector keeps kicking in and interfering with their words, which are of different language, thus the iPhone thinks the word is spelled incorrectly, when really it is spelled correctly in the users language. Y’know?

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:58:52 +0000

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By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:57:29 +0000

whar is this bullshit! When autocorrect is off you make at least 2 errors per word!! It works like a charm. I don’t know what they are complaining about. Moreover the system learns what words you type so if you just keep canceling the correction by clickin the x it will be intgrated.

Typed on iPod touch.

By: Jody Mitoma

Jody Mitoma — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:06:05 +0000

Not everyone has, or even wants cydia, though. Apple needs to make auto-correction removal easier and, well, official.

By: Max G.-C.

Max G.-C. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:02:17 +0000

You can disable/enable it in bossprefs or off your springboard with a jailbroken device!

It’s in cydia. Just search for auto correct.