Mine has learned to auto correct fuck into fucking so yes, I do believe it has a learned a few things, whoo hoo

Cableguy44

My iPhone swore like a sailor until the 2.0 update. Ever since it's been a piece of ducking shot.

TheZolf

It likes to auto-correct names in my contacts....so what if we were to create a contact with every ducking swear word we could ducking come up with?

...Or Maybe give all our friends and loved new middle names such as "Cuntlick" or "Assmunch" for example. Discuss.

JackHoliday

I sometimes enter Greek or Latin text, and would like to have the option to turn auto-correct off for that.

propertius

How come these fucking comments aren't getting disemvoweled?

takashimiike 7

@Captain Angry: we dont have mms or cut and paste yet. You seriously think the iPhone has a auto correct library?!

MorganRW

In one of the 1.X versions swear words were built in to the auto correct library. I'm not sure when they removed it but i'm as ducking pissed about it as the next guy. I'd take that back any day. Way before copy & paste /sarcasm

Ryan Goins

ok, while the cursing thing is clearly great fun, why in the world can't we edit the built in autocorrect dictionary?

maybe i don't text enough, but it drives me nuts when i do. "Yo" needs to be in there. As do at least a few of the various swear words mentioned above.

adhir

@MorganRW: And the crazy thing is, it's a serious stretch to go from the K to the H on the keyboard. It's like in another country. It's always frustrating as hell when I hit France and see Newfoundland pop up to indicate that it's been selected instead.

Phenostar

YEs but hey guys look on the bright side... the new version will have stupid icon texting that is a hit in Japan and street view on Google Maps. The ducking stupid person in charge of product development for the iPhone can go straight to he'll.

MorganRW

Weird my iPhone learned quick, after about 3 times... I mean, not like I've been cursing a lot or anything like that... don't get me wrong.
It's just fucking smart!
...sorry, I need to stop fucking cursing.

ashamaniq

It's the DICE!!

AJ_Syrinx

I doubt I would turn off the auto correct. My typing is so clumsy that I need it to make my sms legible.

fromagesfondus

I wouldn't want to turn auto-correct off, but I would like the ability to add and remove words from the list without the fuzzy logic.

Perk-i

Let's see...

shit piss duck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits

So yeah... it's learned a few =)

Perk-i

@Captain Angry: I was about to say the same. My Blackberry's dictionary would make my grandmother blush.

rbane3

my iphone knows how to say "ricockulous"... does yours?

Nuvari

Just trained the swears into mine, just wrote f*ck ten times (xing the autocorrect) until it stopped autocorrecting, exited and started over again.

it corrected me less and less times, until it screamed uncle....

wfbnadador

The only word my Iphone corrects is fuck to duck because I don't really use that word much while texting.

RockNRollBeaver

My iPod Touch hasn't... Duck you.

benjello

looks like it also disables the caps-off

wfbnadador

@richillion: What about the CAPS LOCK, can you toggle that off, too?

trendspotter

My old Razr's T-9 learned swear words!

Ike_Skelton

@shiftyeyedgoat: I'm an engineer too, and I am also having trouble adding these numbers...

...no wonder all these bridges are collapsing and airplanes crashing...

Stang70Fastback

No, but I can say "fuckin" and "fucker," so I'm just keeping an open mind and being creative with my sentences... And if I can't properly spell out a swear in a text (without x'ing out the auto-correct), I know I'm probably too drunk to be sending that text (or too ducking drunk to care).

trendspotter

@MorganRW: Haha!

jfreel

@Phenostar: what the hell is fuching anyway? I keep getting that one too. It seems that autocorrect is random. Suggesting words for real words and nothing at times for complete gibberish.

MorganRW

I HAVE AUTO CORRECT OFF ANY WAY. WHEN YOU JAIL BREAK IT YOU CAN SHUT OFF AUTO CORRECT OFF OR TOGGLE IT BACK ON.

richillion

Also, since it hasn't been posted in this thread yet, I present to you, The History of why Text Swearing Wasn't Implemented.

shiftyeyedgoat

I don't know if i'm wrong, but it seemed to me that in version 1.x the iPhone learned words i used a lot, including proper names (of bars, bands etc.), abbreviations and even dirty cuss words. Since the 2.x software release i haven't gotten it to learn anything new and i have to retype a lot... stupid ducking version 2.x!

Frankie2

Because I am ducking all the time, I may be going to he'll.

Seriously though, I find that it may learn a word or two only to have it forget and start suggesting things again a day or so later.

MorganRW

Mine started auto correcting to fuching after the 2.1 update. Never gave me a problem before that.

Phenostar

My iPhone knows the "F" word.

Chester_Copperpot

@shiftyeyedgoat: weird, right?

unkpku is think that new comments are like iPhone 3G pre 2.1, yeah it sucks

@shiftyeyedgoat: Hrmm... Looks good to me, whats the problem? :)

KronikFpLiOnYkD

I just tried typing a lot of words and it didn't try to auto correct any of them. I never got duck for the F word. However the only one it auto completed for me was crap.

hadees

I can't find I swear word it doesn't have.. I must swear to much... Damnit.

KronikFpLiOnYkD

I'm not mathematician... oh wait, I'm an engineer, so I kinda am... but these percentages don't add up.

Yes.

2.0% (1 vote)
No.

51.0% (26 votes)

shiftyeyedgoat

I've texted someone at a festival:

That band was ducking good.

good thing she had an iphone too and got a laugh out of it.

Lupison

I love how im supposedly the only one who's iphone has learned to swear, at least as of now.

unkpku is think that new comments are like iPhone 3G pre 2.1, yeah it sucks

Can't you add entrys to your auto correct library? I can do that on my BlackBerry.

Captain Angry

i find that calling people a stupid duck has moved from the iphone to the real world for me. it was annoying at first but now i find it funny.

lordofthetoast

@TheMurderer: Yeah, I have a feeling the Giz messed up/fixed the poll. My iPhone has definitely learned how to swear - although a big chunk of it was me typing swear words into Notes again and again when I was bored so it did learn them.

jopari

@Phenostar: The cool thing is if you actually meant to type Newfoundland, but you typed France accidentally. Now that would be an awesome ESP feature!

vandy1997

@Stang70Fastback: Looks pretty ducking good to me!

vandy1997

Mine says Fuch and Fuching more than Duck

Duke

@Bootes: The iPhone ducks the Blackberry in the bass.

vandy1997

Duck Yes! Stupid pigt keeps dropping half the words in my rather extended vocabulary.

YourTechSupport

@unkpku is think that new comments are like iPhone 3G pre 2....: I am the one vote for yes, and there are LOTS of votes for no. About 300 votes seem to be missing, though...
Hmm...

TheMurderer

@Captain Angry: The iPhone auto adds words when you use them.

Bootes

Perk-i - you has the George Carlin edition iPhone!

Mine (finally) knows "fuck" - it used to know fuck all but now it's a little wiser - probably from me swearing at it EACH and EVERY time I had to go back and correct the fucking thing OVER and OVER again.

Would I shut it off?

In a fuckin' heartbeat.

Cheers.

robbo

@Perk-i: Classic, you sir have just won the intarwebs!

hooray1 ;)

bpapa9013

@Perk-i: Have you had your iPhone checked for terets?

MorganRW

Jack and Jill went up the hill both with a buck and quarter. Jill came back down with $2.50 ohhh.

Duck that whore!

marc_wtih_a_c

@Perk-i: I think George Carlin has haunted your phone!

marc_wtih_a_c

I don't have an iphone, but if i did I would turn off spell correct and teach it to fart.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@hadees: mine autocompleted fuck to duck, hell to he'll, and shit to shot. crap it left alone.

I always had the same problem with T9 on my old cell phones. I'd text someone that something was "ducking awesome," or what have you. Once read a guy on the internet say he tried to text "want to get food in the crown" to a friend but T9 turned it into "want to get done in the brown," which is like 1000% better.

kerry

Little boy blew. He needed the money!!

vandy1997

@unkpku is think that new comments are like iPhone 3G pre 2....:

Yeah, because I can't be the only ducking yes vote. Oh duck! stop, duck you iPhone, stop correcting my ducking words...

Sheldon

stokessd

@Perk-i: Mine can't learn shit

gamecrazychris

It has finally learned my name however, which is a wierd scottish name.

Lupison

I'm fairly certain my iPhone used to know the word fuck. I think one update or another changed that.

Tyranicus

I hate the fact that it will change Yo to to, U to he, and a few others like Zune to Zine, wtf is that? I like the "ducking" though lol.

Sam_Zebian

@Lupison: omg im so tired of "ducking"!!! especially since that word is usually used in anger, seeing it spell "duck" just adds to my rage

lite.blu

What the duck, why is everyone always ducking dissing on the iPhone???

No but seriously, I have found that mine has learnt lots of words, you must make sure you correct it until it defaults to the word you actually want. I find that sometime using a capital letter for "tricky" words make it ignore miss spellings thinking the word is a proper name so Fu**ing would be easier to learn than fu**ing!

cwoodhams

i love how you can add words to your library with the writingpad app. sucks that it only works as for email and notes though.

twistfunk

Either I'm the only Yes vote here or your poll is broken, Giz. Mine stopped replacing fuck and shit within about a week.

Apoc112

@unkpku is think that new comments are like iPhone 3G pre 2....: Hey, I thought that I was the only who's iphone learned to swear. lol.

yablunk

I just wish auto-correct had an option to reverse it from you needing to click the X to cancel it out, to you needing to click on the suggestion to use it. It would save many a' ducks.

DreDog

yeah, that things ducking shifty. i tell you what...

PaaatrickBabyBoy

Holy shot, whoever made the 2.0 auto-correct feature really ducked up!

ZombieFlanders

Mine apparently has learned the word shit, however this seems to be the only cus word it knows.

yablunk

My colleague got fired, and texted me with the news. I responded (with iPhone corrections), "Duck!"

Kid

KidDoc

mine puts "fuckin" when i start to type fuck so yeah guess it has learned.

but my 1 and only complaint is that feature i cant wait to be able to turn it off.

ChargedC6

Wow I am literally the only "yes" on the first question.

Though it usually tries to correct me when I type a curse word ("shot" instead of "shit"), there's times when I misspell a word and it actually suggests "fucking" or something along those lines. Still, I can't count the number of times I HAVEN'T wanted to say "he'll" and it suggested it anyway.

On a related note, what the shit does "fuching" mean?? I get that all the damn time.

rcast1986

I just typed "fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit" in one text and now my iPhone knows those two words.

Unfortunately, I sent it to my mother.

JacquesAss

I don't have an iPhone, nor do I use the words being autocorrected, but I would still turn auto-correct off because it's annoying for a computer to replace words for me. It's one thing to get red squiggly underlines that I have the option of replacing, it is quite another for it to do it without asking.

SQLGuru

@vandy1997: You totally missed the idea with that joke, dude. What were you going for? Vass? Gass? Hass? Nass?

ericisshort

@Chester_Copperpot: FEMBOT

pardyhardy

Yeah, mine has.

NHeerDesign

@Sam_Zebian: That's ducking funny.

takashimiike 7

Ducking thing sucks! I'll shut it off immediately. "Tina Fey" becomes "Tuna Fey." Like T9, I find it to be obnoxious.

mensrea

@shiftyeyedgoat: You need to enter the reality distortion field, then it'll add up.

Rodime

@lite.blu: Usually used in anger? Perhaps you're just an angry person?

Most of the time I use it is for messages like "I can't wait to get home and duck the shot out of you!"

G-Ram

Profanity is the verbal crutch of the ignorant mother fucker.

kirby822

@kerry: Winner! That has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever heard!!

Lestat

@lordofthetoast: Now that you mention it, I think there's a few people I should try that on. See if someone else can bring a camera to get their reaction. :P

The Amazing Ant

My LG rumor learned to swear. :)

mergedwarrior

my iphone autocorrects fuck for me. and cunt. ha, i say those alot via text

colbsters

Damn autocorrect breaks the most basic rule of user interface design. If it's going to make a suggestion, you should be presented with an option to "accept" it, not to "reject" it. This, at the VERY least, should be an option. I am sick and tired of the few times in which I can manage to actually type something correctly in the ridiculously small on-screen keyboard, and the word gets changed when I hit the space.

doug316

Yes I'd have to say mine has learned a few but the most important is FUCK. It used to say duck all the time, but I think I corrected the auto-correct so many times that it just gave up and now it just let's me have my potty-mouth way. :)

mr. HiDefinition

Wait, only one yes? I'm not seriously the only one with a potty mouthed iphone am I?

phool

+ Watch video

Armstrong and Millar talking about the same thing.

nevin

Just jailbreak the damn phone like a normal human being. There's somewhere in the neighborhood of 356450 apps that will turn off auto-correct.

hkmp5n

the 1.1.4 firmware used to learn swear words. i ducking hate that this piece of shiv iphone 2.1 won't.

hanspecans

Mine can suggest shit, but won't suggest fuck. It doesn't say duck anymore though, it just lets me type fuck.

Slacker

My iPhone 3G knows how to swear bilingually ;-)

HollywoodLeo

Yes - 0.0% (1 vote)

No - 42.1% (916 votes)

2178 total votes.

Something's wrong here...

monkey144

Is that Jon Stewart?

gg101

The auto correct is very anoying when you do not speak english. I m french and everytime i try to send someone an SMS in french i have a bunch of english words coming on.... Apple may have introduce a dictionary according to the language set up in the iphone , not just in english,,, either they put a french, german, spanish....dictionnay or they let us desctivate it...

JacintaMacropod

One time I was typing "You are so fucking sweet, muah..", but it turned out to be "You are so ducking sewer, mush.."
I didn't realize that until I sent that..-_-

jkiang

My iPhone doesnt even know my wifes name. It used to rembember everything, since 2.1 it wont remember anything. I have banking updates via text and I can type bal for the balance and it always changes it to val or hal. And I do this multiple times a week.

ARONBOARD

now there's a thread - well for people with real T9
what's in your personal dictionary?
"donno, douche, pesto, yum, boob"

Ornament

Um, I just voted "YES" that its learned a sware word, and the results said 1 vote for YES, 900-something votes for NO. So am I the ONLY ONE here that its learned a fucking sware word from?

P.S. To a real George Carlin fan, his "Seven Words" skit was only one of hundreds of funny skits. I don't even think of it really when I think of my favorite Carlin moments. And its not just the humor, I viewed him as a visionary and an important American Institution... the more fucked up the country gets, the more we need him...

dtemp

This is why I really love my REAL QWERTY Treo. I can cut & paste my swears too.

Even my old t9 phones learned cusswords.

kabuk1

Ducktard!

CherylEpimetheus