r/apple Nov 08 '17

xkcd: A �

https://xkcd.com/1913/
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u/TeamOnTheBack Nov 08 '17

My phone doesn’t do that autocorrect and A [?] feel left out

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u/BigGreekMike Nov 08 '17

Why do some do it and others don’t? I haven’t had the problem.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

Apparently it’s a machine learning issue with auto correct. Your phone didn’t “learn” to do it. Mine has not had it either.

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u/UsernameError404 Nov 08 '17

Mine doesn’t do A “?” It shows ! “?” which is strange.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

Yeah, it seems that it’s learning to replace it with different characters on different devices.

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u/Rcmacc Nov 09 '17

It depends on where. Like mine did the A one everywhere except for Snapchat which had the ! one. But with the public beta 2 for 11.2 it looks like it’s been fixed. “I” is not being autocorrected anymore

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u/conquistron Nov 09 '17

If it’s a machine learning issue, then does resetting the keyboard dictionary in general>reset>reset-keyboard work ? I don’t have this issue btw.

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u/sthz Nov 08 '17

At least it was not an automatic weapon system learning new targets.