Kevin Quillen

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Correcting iPhone AutoCorrection

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iPhone AutoCorrection is a double edged sword. Sometimes, it can save you a lot of retyping by just thinking for you and completing a really long word. Other times, it can change a word into something completely different (sike into dike, for example) causing you to have to buy a really expensive dinner and flowers for a girl who doesn’t own an iPhone and can’t understand why I called her a dike. It sometimes gets me into a lot of ducking trouble.

There are other times however, when you type something wrong and the iPhone ‘learns’ that mistake to use as the normal word. Somehow, it learned the mistype ‘me and any time I wanted to type just me, it would replace it with ‘me which got old REAL fast. This is where a ‘smart’ feature becomes dumb over time and needs to be reset. There is a way to do this.

Settings > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary
This clears out any custom words the iPhone has learned and sets it back to the factory default dictionary. In other words, back to ducking normal.

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