This will be great. Hopefully it will be able to figure out that it should capitalize my last name, which is on my Contact card, and that of a dozen of my relatives. When I went to the Apple Store, they told me that I could either add a custom autocorrect to my library, or reset all settings. They did admit this was some sort of bug, and that it would be massive overkill to reset all settings (lose all wifi passwords, etc.).
Nope, the two employees I spoke to were talking about a full reset (which affects network settings). Regardless of what the Keyboard Dictionary says, the iPhone should be autocompleting/capitalizing the last name of contacts, and especially the owner's name.
Why would that implicitly be "regardless" of what the keyboard dictionary says? I would expect the learned dictionary to be prioritized over other sources of information, just as a practical matter, even if someone might reasonably assume there are other things that should be prioritized over it.
None of that explains how resetting everything would have any affect on capitalization of names if resetting the keyboard dictionary wouldn't, and you didn't say whether you tried resetting keyboard dictionary.
Nope, they didn't suggest that. After all, if the dictionary is 'above' the contact list, then resetting the dictionary wouldn't fix the problem (since the word would be coming from the contact list itself, not the dictionary). The issue was that iOS was not properly accounting for the contact list. They said that hopefully it will be fixed in a future iOS update, and said I could submit a bug fix online.
> The issue was that iOS was not properly accounting for the contact list.
But the autocorrect does account for the contact list. I can personally vouch for that, as it works properly on my phone.
> > I would expect the learned dictionary to be prioritized
> After all, if the dictionary is 'above' the contact list, then resetting the dictionary wouldn't fix the problem (since the word would be coming from the contact list itself, not the dictionary).
"The dictionary" is not what I said. But, even if I had said that, then any words that aren't in the dictionary would be sourced from the contact list and other lower priority sources, wouldn't they?
What I said was the learned dictionary. The dictionary made of words learned from what the user types, when the user corrects the autocorrect. iOS does not allow you to access or modify the list of words that it has learned, only to clear them. The words that it learns seem to be prioritized above everything else, which includes special capitalizations for words (not just sequences of letters lacking capitalization). Sometimes it learns the wrong capitalization for a word, and it sticks to it. Just searching for "ios capitalizing wrong words" on google turns up a ton of results from reddit and other discussion forums that mention this exact problem with iOS learning the wrong capitalization.
FWIW, iOS 17 sounds like an all-new autocorrect system, so maybe it will fix your problem just by throwing out the data anyways, since it would make sense to me for them to start from scratch with such a radically different autocorrect algorithm.
> But the autocorrect does account for the contact list. I can personally vouch for that, as it works properly on my phone.
I'm glad it works on your phone. It doesn't work on mine!
I was aware of the upcoming changes in iOS17, which is why I'm not making changes and hoping that it will be fixed. It is annoying to have to manually capitalize my own name!
