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The most infuriating “feature” of autocorrect is that it includes all your contact names in your dictionary, with no way to opt out of this aside from disabling autocorrect entirely. This can lead to some awkward texts when your innocent typo (or even correctly spelled technical term) turns into a mention of someone’s name who should not be in your phone…

I wonder if this is related to the fact that every Apple app shows up as “recently accessing” contacts in App Privacy Report. And I don’t mean only photos (face recognition), but: Safari, Camera, Shortcuts, Mail, Health… why? I’ve never even configured a Mailbox. Why are these apps all accessing my Contacts?

>>chatma+(OP)
This drives me nuts because I put things like "(Alexander)" after someone's name to indicate who I met them through, who they're friends of, where I met them, etc.

Then whenever I dictate "Alexander" it shows up as "(Alexander)" in parentheses. Drives me mad.

>>chatma+(OP)
I'm astonished people on this site use autocorrect at all. IMO it's a mind-bogglingy insane antifeature, even more insane than that weird "replace arithmetic expressions with their result" thing Apple once did.

>>RGamma+Y4
I tried turning it off once, and the alternative was way worse.

>>chatma+XN
It's worse because it keeps the text you intentionally entered? To be sure: I'm not talking about next word suggestions, only about it changing words after you already wrote them.

>>RGamma+871
It's worse because touching the right spot on tiny screen with fat fingers is astonishingly hard.

>>scotty+Eb1
Holding spacebar for corrections works fine though. Maybe my error rate is too low...

>>RGamma+Ic1
See, I just learned this was a feature when I read your comment a few seconds ago. I’ve had an iPhone since the iPhone 4.