One of iOS 8’s great new features is Quick Type, which scans your history for your most commonly used word combinations and suggests the word you’re most likely to use next, which can be selected with just a tap.
That said, Quick Type is hardly perfect… a fact made abaundantly clear by the latest xkcd comic, in which iOS 8 mangles famous quotes from Scarface, Wizard of Oz, Serenity, Goonies, Lord of the Rings and Goldfinger.
And you thought Damn You, Autocorrect was hilarious!
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8 responses to “This comic perfectly sums up the hilarious inaccuracy of iOS 8 keyboard predictions”
can it be turned off?
its not like autocorrect. the words don’t actually get typed unless you press the buttons. there is a slider that you can swipe down to turn this feature off / hide the buttons. and there are other 3rd party keyboards in the app store
thanks
If you lower your expectations and stop imagining that your phone has a fully acculturated functioning human brain inside it, it’s actually helpful.
Thought the idea was it learnt as you typed but also who you are messaging
So after putting in
“Say hello to my little friend” four times it remembered it. What am I missing,is it meant to know what I’m typing before its learnt the way I type to different people ?
In no way does “this comic perfectly [sum] up the hilarious inaccuracy of iOS 8 keyboard predictions”. Every single one of those sentences makes sense or only doesn’t make sense because the sentence has actually ended (“Bond. James Bond.”).
What this comic does perfectly sum up is its ignorance of culture, which is perfectly excusable.
How stupid. The new predictive typing is saving me so much time. It’s brilliant. Why should it predict movie quotes when I’m discussing dinner with my wife?
xkcd is the best!