Fun with iPhone's predictive texting...

[wildonrio]

Ok try this. In a text, try and type the word YOURE (with no apostrophe). Notice how when you get to the E, it absolutely will not let you type it. If you move your thumb around, it will shift between the W and the R to the left and right of the E, but the E will be unavailable to type. The best I've been able to type is YOURR. Ironically, after you give up and type YOURR, the predictive texting will suggest YOU'RE and if you press space, your YOU'RE will be there like you wanted.

I don't think we notice these types of things too often since predictive texting is good enough to eventually get the word you want after you press space. Just thought I'd point out this oddity.

[cdinca]

that is weird! I noticed that if I delete the second r in yourr, then I can type an e to make it youre.

Just weird.

[psylichon]

That is an odd one. I'm sure there are more. It's like it's too busy thinking of what you want to type to actually allow you type the correct thing.

Sometimes I wish there was the ability to change predictive text's behavior... i.e. instead of having to tap the suggestion to ignore it, it would be ignored by default unless I tapped it. As I get better at typing with the Iphone, this feature would become increasingly appreciated.

[Zabumafu]

The thing I hate most about it is the abbreviations it puts in. By far the worst is LOL, every time you type lol it goes LOL. Only thing I like about it is how the predicitive text catches on to commonly used phrases. Where I live we have something called toats hilar which is kinda an inside joke, and not when I type tots it goes toats. Kinda cool

[Velodog2]

I'm a big fan of the predictive texting capabilities and I type very fast on the virtual keyboard by 'trusting' it.

The only contraction that continues to be an annoying problem for me is "we're". I haven't figured out how to get the phone to put the apostrophe in for me. If I don't put it in manually I get "were" no matter what I've tried. Anyone know how to do this?

[Hayesimus]

Originally Posted by wildonrio

Ok try this. In a text, try and type the word YOURE (with no apostrophe). Notice how when you get to the E, it absolutely will not let you type it. If you move your thumb around, it will shift between the W and the R to the left and right of the E, but the E will be unavailable to type. The best I've been able to type is YOURR. Ironically, after you give up and type YOURR, the predictive texting will suggest YOU'RE and if you press space, your YOU'RE will be there like you wanted.

I don't think we notice these types of things too often since predictive texting is good enough to eventually get the word you want after you press space. Just thought I'd point out this oddity.

I also was unable to select the 'D' when i moved my thumb around. weird.

[KNK]

I don't even try and think about typing I just trust it and it always comes out right.

[Hayesimus]

Just use the force, Luke...

[Ramesh]

Originally Posted by Velodog2

I'm a big fan of the predictive texting capabilities and I type very fast on the virtual keyboard by 'trusting' it.

The only contraction that continues to be an annoying problem for me is "we're". I haven't figured out how to get the phone to put the apostrophe in for me. If I don't put it in manually I get "were" no matter what I've tried. Anyone know how to do this?

I would think that since were is a word, you wouldn't be able to get to phone to predict we're instead of were...

[wildonrio]

Originally Posted by superhayes256

I also was unable to select the 'D' when i moved my thumb around. weird.

Yeah I noticed that too. I wonder why it wouldn't allow D and E (the right letter!) but it's fine with Z or X or Q?