I remember like seven years ago my android keyboard's autocorrect was completely fine? Not only would it seem to remember my common finger slip-induced typos and correct them on sight, but it could also autocorrect typos with numbers in them, ie recognizing "3" as a missed "e", etc
But nowadays my autocorrect fucking sucks rank ass? It's awful at guessing the correction for typos as it looks like (to me) it only uses the first letter as the basis for autocorrect, and if I mistyped the first letter then I'm shit out of luck for autocorrect picking up, like there's absolutely no way it could possibly guess what I mean when I say "I want vurgers for dinner"
But somehow it's gotten even WORSE than just bad at its job lately? I've had regular instances of the autocorrect changing a correctly spelled and grammatically correct word to something completely different. Just yesterday it autocorrected the word 'with' in the middle of a sentence to 'WI', as in the acronym for Wisconsin.
what is the point of making your basic functionality shittier? to sell premium keyboard apps? jesus christ
autocorrect is proscriptivist fascistic thought control that every leftist should eschew
im mostly kidding but tonnes of fully grammatical words like proscriptivist get flagged because that particular permutation doesn't get used a lot? ridiculous. its intolerable to have to fight lil squiggly lines and popups everytime you use an unexpected suffix or want to change spelling for a point
yeah i dont mind too much when its squiggly lines cause at least then the worst that happens is i google it like "that is a word right? yes of course its a word this computer just doesnt own a dictionary" but when i have to fight my phone to even let me say completely acceptable, intentional, correct words spelled correctly i do get legit frustrated
happens with names, too. god forbid you want to discuss a chinese person
i swear autocorrect (if its allowed to exist at all) needs replaced with something that just analysises roots-prefixes-suffixes, because yeah, if you fuck up letter order in 'adreno' or something that could be a problem for intelligibility but any construction made of correctly spelled word parts is going to be a word.
no promises that word is gonna be useful or make sense but thats for the readers and writers to fight about