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> Aggressive lookbehind correction: these days you have to be seriously on your guard for your keyboard to not sneak-edit something you typed 5 words back

If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself. This person has robbed me of my peace of mind as I now have to be on guard every time I type anything on a mobile keyboard

>>takino+(OP)
>If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself.

your comment reminds me of this comic from the 2000s that became a bit of a meme back in the day

swap out "comic sans" with "aggressive lookbehind correction" and it'd fit perfectly ;-)

https://www.achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

>>takino+(OP)
See this is why I turn off absolutely all autocorrection on iOS. I still make mistakes but now they are my mistakes. And I can type whatever I want without interference

>>foobar+4r
Can be disabled on multiple devices by Apple Configurator MDM XML plist file.

>>foobar+4r
Wow I didn't realize that was possible. I just turned off all auto correction and predictive text. Working much better already.

>>foobar+4r
I didn't even know this was possible. Thats great.

>>foobar+4r
Except that if you watched the video, you would see that this is not true.

>>foobar+4r
The importance of letting people make their own mistakes rather than yours, is what our culture is missing in all sorts of areas.

>>vinter+yX
This is a hugely underrated comment.

>>SoftTa+Pz
Apple’s settings are an absolute dumpster fire from a discoverability perspective.

>>foobar+4r
I type like a drunkard from the autocorrection on modern phones.

>>foobar+4r
I keep switching it back on after having it off for a while. I want some autocorrect. I often like the type ahead suggestions. I just really hate the "update behind" mechanic.

It's real frustrating that Apple has decided to put just about everything under only a single Settings switch and won't break it out into individual things.

It's also frustrating that for about half an iOS version Apple seemed to have caught on that the update behind was catching people off guard and implemented an extra, more obvious change animation. The whole word flashed in a bright blue or yellow when it changed and had a visible undo button. That was useful. But then the button didn't survive the next point release and the animation kept getting subtler again until it disappeared.