what the duck! iPhone PG autocorrection work around

by Justin Horn on Dec 4th, 2008 @ 7:30 pm

I’m sure some of you have been writing a funny text or mean email before and have had the word fuck turn into duck. Well someone discovered a clever way to work around this ‘issue’ without having to hit the little ‘x’ or turn off auto-correction.

The iPhone uses your list of Contacts as possible auto-complete or matching when you type. This makes sense, if you have someone’s name in your address book, you may very well find yourself typing it one day, and occasionally iPhone will even offer to correct my spelling of people’s names.

(Aside: That is pretty rare, however, because if iPhone sees a word capitalized and not at the beginning of a sentence, it seems to assume it is a name and often will not offer to auto-correct it.)

During an amazingly boring and poorly led meeting today, it occurred to me that I might be able to work around the “ducking iPhone” issue by creating a contact with this name.

So all you need to do is add a new friend to your contacts, his (or her) name is ‘fucking fuck’

I’ve tested adding more words to the same contact name (pictured) and it works great!  So you could just create a space separated list of words you don’t want auto corrected all in the same contact.

[T’N’T Luoma via Daring Fireball]

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