iPhone Auto correct fail [Humor]
I dont know about you but I have this love/hate relationship with my iPhone's auto correct. I can't spell (don't tell Rene!) so I can't really live without it, but that means I end up having auto correct change my words, sometimes into something horrific. If you think that's funny head on over to Damnyouautocorrect.com, a site dedicated entirely to just this type of humor.
One more, potentially NSFW, after the break.
Has this ever happened to you? Leave a comment, share your misfortune, and give me a laugh at the same time!
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definitely had the hug/hiv happen before...
i wish you could have auto-correct off and spell check on tho
Not only can you not spell, but apparently you can't use punctuation correctly either. There are apostrophes in contractions.
Haha I love the baby one lmao
Not funny at all.
I'm wondering what got autocorrected into "porked". I call BS on that one.
Parked Mom's new BMW = porked mom's new baby
Yeah no clue how real that is but I did laugh really hard at the second one...
Thanks for the constructive words of support @Jake =P
ya if you try to get angry and curse (not saying i do this alot)
the autocorrect for a certain word..can really ruin a good fight :(
I love that site. Has me laughing all the time!
Joe: "This girl looks like Snookie"
Mark: "Snap a pic"
Joe: "It would be so obvious. she's in a counterterrorism"
Joe: "cubby*"
Joe: "wtf iphone"
Mark: "She's in a counterterrorism huh?"
Joe: "yea apparently my iPhone's callin people out"
LOL! Good stuff.
I've had this happen. I was trying to tell my dad that I was bringing his small vacuum and it ended up being small vigina.
Also, why does Lobe come up instead of Love? Who use a thatnword?
Experienced this for the first time this morning while sending an email.
Told someone I had a Doctors appt (spot was the auto correct)
I hope some one at Apple will get this corrected soon, real soon.
We also need to be able to turn off auto correct and keep on Spell check.
I wouldn't worry about the spelling, Rene has his own grammar issues.
@MaZon You can turn off auto correct and keep on spell check. hahaha this is funky....funny* (<--corny i know)
haha.. One time I was texting my (female) friend and we ran out of things to say, so I typed "SOOOOOOOO" and autocorrect changed it to "B***********************************tch
I use IM+ paid on my iPad a ton, and it's auto-correct is about the weirdest thing I've ever seen. More than once I've watched it turn an actual word into nonsense letters, it's especially bad with acronyms and names.
It's bad enough when auto-correct turns a word into something you didn't intend, but turning a word into random letters... What is up with that?
If people actually paid attention to what they were writing we might not be so entertained, but I think the world would be a better place. You laugh at the phone, but you should be laughing at the idiot who hit send. I wonder how many serious spats have been caused by such laziness.
Effing awesome to the second one!
There is an awesome on that site: Father says to Son, "Your Mom and I are going to Divorce." Son replies," Wha??! Call me!" Father's response: " I meant DISNEY. Your Mom and I are going to Disney."
What do u mean dont tell Rene u can't spell. None of you guys can spell here at TIPB. You guys always mess up on ur blogs man.
You can turn off auto correct. You have to be jailbroken for this. Use ifile or SSH and go to /System/Library/TextInput. Find the TextInputen.bundle folder and rename it to TextInputenbk.bundle(en is for english). This way even if you turn on autocorrect it wont replace words and you will have spell check on(It still replaces contact names though). If you want autocorrect to work again just rename it to it's default.
@ allister'. Eat it. Most just tipe and send, most of the timee I can fiqure out wat the other person is trying to say. ( <--- example )
Thanks for making me laugh 'til I cry while at work. You don't know how much I needed that.
I tried typing "undefeated" the other day and it changed it to "underrated." Perhaps autocorrect is clairvoyant?
Damnyouautocorrect just made my morning. I've always been a proponent of a physical keyboard... but I guess the ability to type what you actually intend wouldn't quite offer the same level of humor.
Seriously though...I know there are a lot of keyboard haters on this site, but this is what happens when you don't have physical keys to type. I spend more time trying to fix stupid autocorrects than actually typing texts.
You guys should see the one about me and mom getting a divorce. Lol
We need to be able to add custom words! Sheesh - I could do that 5 years ago on my Blackberry!!!! :-(
I wouldn't mind it so much if you had to pick the "corrected" word instead of it being automatic. Having to NOT chose is just dumb. Or, when you hit send, it should show the words and give you the option to send anyway. Oh, wait. Windows already does that. And you know Apple. They just HAVE to re-invent the wheel just to be different.....I mean, magical!
Some of those are pretty funny. @Allister & Anthon - pluck a rat one...oops meant, "suck a fat one" damnyouautocorrect!
i also have that love/hate relationship with my iPhone.. it helps a lot sometimes, but other times makes me wanna smash the damn screen :)
Every time I write "new" I get "Noe". Why not ""now" or "wow"? What is Noe?
I never send anything until I read it... but I'm tired of continually correcting a word I've never even heard of.
I love Damn-You-Auto-Correct, but sometimes you just know some messages were done on purpose to be featured on it.
@DanthemanFg. Yet you seem to love reading her articles!???
Funny. I turned off autocorrect but had a hard time introducing errors when typing "Jake is an a**hole". I even have to add in the asterisks manually! Ah ha ha ha...
Fun read Georgia :) Thanks.
I HATE that you can't turn off auto-correct BUT LEAVE ON Spell-check. WHY THE HELL CAN'T WE?? WHY must spell-check be disabled too? GRRR! I hate programmers that think they are smarter than me and that they can read my mind in advance through software -- even when they are actually RIGHT 90% of the time, like this damn voodoo phone actually is ... it still bugs me.
Google too. After the Monday Night Football game this week, I load up Google and type "What is that thing" ... and the first auto-complete was "on the field at Gillette Stadium". Damn, now that is some serious magic; 'cause that is exactly what I was looking for. LOL!
THIS >>> And. And. Not ANC. And. God damn it!
i usually don't believe any of these. there are many iPhone conversation and Facebook thread generators out there.
wowwwww....
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