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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does autocorrect get it wrong so many times?[/quote]

Yes! It's often changing "its" to "it's," and I have to change it back.[/quote]

My autocorrect on my phone does insane things. For instance, back when I was in the thick of under-5 childcare, I discovered my phone hates the word "nannies" and will correct it every time to "Nanny's". How does my phone not understand the plural form of the word nanny, or that it's most commonly used as a job title, not a first name? Is my phone Irish?

Anyway, this is why complaining about typos like that on DCUM makes no sense. I frequently post comments on here riddled with typos because I am dashing something off on my phone without proofreading and it's a dumb little machine.[/quote]

My phone often autocorrects the word "any" (even when that is the word I intended to write) to the name Amy. I do know a couple Amys but I don't interact with them often -- just very occasional texts. So it's not like my daughter's name or something where you could understand why my phone might assume I meant to write the name.

It also will autofill the name Thea when I write "the" sometimes. My daughter does have a friend with this name so I do type it with some frequency but also it's very strange for a program to see the letters t-h-e and to assume the writer intended anything other than one of the most common words in the English language.[/quote]
My phone does this every single time when I text! “The” becomes “Theo”, “he” or “her” becomes “Heather”, and “that” becomes “Thatcher”. I know people with these names but only text them a few times a year. It dives me bonkers. [/quote]

+1
I see it on here quite a bit from phone posters but everyone can rest assured that it's not outing that your phone typed in "Thea" because it can truly be a name you have typed in once vs. your kid's name. [/quote]

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