iOS 7 Auto-Correct Is Much Better Than iOS 6

Sometimes I send a text message to a friend, and I find there is a lot of mistakes whether it was in grammar or a wrong words. I'm very sure you've been there and it is so embarrassing, consider to the person you are texting him... But at the end of the day, it’s something that could have been prevented should your iPhone auto-correct be a little smarter.

What I want to say, is auto-correct function now is more smarter in iOS 7 that it was in iOS 6. Today in this post I am going to show you how iOS 7 is making auto-correct better and smarter... 

What Auto-Correct Can Do In iOS 6

As most of you on iOS 6, you may noticed that iOS 6 only corrects the last word you type. In some conditions it could fix the second to last word, but only when this word was in an iOS database of proper nouns. For example, iOS would fix “united states” to “United States.” But again, it’s only because United States is in a database of proper nouns stored in iOS.

Also iOS 6 can tap into your iPhone contacts for correct spelling of names of people that are in your Contacts. It can also look at the Shortcuts you have added in the Keyboard settings, inside the Settings app, and maybe even better, it can learn from you as you “teach” iOS to spell words correctly, which you do every time you decline the same auto-correction several times.

What I mean, is iOS 6 only fixes words that have accidentally been tied together. For example, typing “thisis” would be auto-corrected to “this is.”

So what about iOS 7 ? 

iOS 6 VS iOS 7 [Auto-Correction] 

In the below series of screenshots, you will see me typing the same phrases in the Mail app on iOS 6 and iOS 7

In the photo above, your iPhone is very smart to tell that when you type "Hell" you probably mean to type the more often used "He'll" so it would automatically auto-correct to the right words, which is a good thing in most cases. But what happens when you actually want to type hell? In iOS 6 and below, you had to manually tap the suggested auto-correct box to cancel it.

While in iOS 7, auto-correct is very smarter as he will default to "he'll" too.. but once you type in another word, the operating system is now capable of figuring out some of the context and decide whether you actually mean he’ll or hell.

Once again, iOS 7 is smart enough to know when you mean I’ll or ill. In the example above, iOS 7 first auto-corrects ill to I’ll, but then, based on what’s following, it knows its suggestion was wrong and offers a new one that is actually correct.

Auto-correct is definitely a work in progress and it has plenty of room to grow. I’m glad to see Apple is working on improving auto-correct, a feature used by the millions of people who own an iOS device, most of them not even aware of the auto-correct capabilities. In most cases, auto-correct works just fine on iOS 6, but it obviously got even smarter on iOS 7.

So what do you think ?

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