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The latest spell checks are already trash. The older versions did better. Now, it wrongly corrects grammar, happily inserts the wrong your or their, and assumes wrong words based on context instead of just correcting the spelling.
my phone is so bad at this now. I thought for the longest time it was just my fat fingers on a touchscreen, but after a while I started seeing it "correct" things live. just absolutely dumb shit, like you said - completely the wrong grammar or word for the context
I got to witness first-hand exactly how much worse it’s gotten in the last few years all at once.
See, I’m stuck on an iPhone for the moment (thankfully a 14 which isn't compatible with the extra AI bullshit, or I’d probably have just dealt with the vulnerability..), and because of liquid glass and a bunch of other reasons, I declined to update my OS from 17.whatever. Then the critical vulnerability was found, and the only fix was to update. So I snapped forward to 26 or whatever it is up to now. Literal years of backslide in one day. It’s so fucking unusable. I can’t wait until that motorola that’s compatible with graphene is available.
I went from having a sort of OK autocorrect that was only wrong like 30% of the time, to just flat out disabling it because it was so so much worse than my own typos and fixing my own mistakes. I gave it a few days, but yeah, it would correct words that I’d typed out correctly to random bullshit, sometimes several words later so you don't notice it. It wouldn't fix obvious typos even when they came up in red underline. It got the wrong conjugation or contraction frequently. It was aggressive about changing stuff no matter how many times I typed it in the correct way.
It’s fucking bad, man. You are not imagining it. At all. It’s just that it crept up on you as it gradually got worse.