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Tips to Add Words to iPhone's Dictionary
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Tips to Add Words to iPhone's Dictionary
You might have noticed that your iPhone doesn't know the swear words. We had also provided couple of tricks to teach your iPhone to swear. iPhone expert, Erica Sadun, who also blogs at Ars Technica decided to investigate as the trick of typing the swear word two or three times...
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What an f-ing fantastic tip. Now my phone will stop autocorrecting my words to shift and duck. ;-)
finally, I hope I could add the Italian world "ma" without seeing it always being corrected to the non-sensed "m'a"...
That's weird: "ma" is a widely used conjunction... Strange Apple hasn't added it!
this is lame, if you dont like the auto correction function JUST CANCEL IT...its not that hard (if u have 2.2) if u r runnin 2.1 then u can download an app from cydia that can stop it. so it doesnt really need anyone to develop an app which could help u add words....i dont like it
Actually, I take it back. While the tip keeps autocorrection from correcting your foul language in mobile safari, the same words are auotcorrected in the SMS app still. Too bad.
I like the autocorrection feature, and would never turn it off. It makes far too many "correct" corrections to give up; that doesn't mean that I can't be frustrated with the fact that it refuses to learn certain words, and that there is no way to force it to stop autocorrecting particular words that the prude-police at Apple have deemed non-iPhone-worthy.
VERY SMART
if they get this working fine it will boost the iphone sales no end, i know dozens of people who wont buy the iphone just because they cant use the bluetooth to other phones.
http://myfreeiphone.co.uk/wordpress
Hey DistortedLoop,
You are right, it seems to work sometimes but doesn't work all the time.
Erica has just commented that she might be able to build an app for this, in my opinion that's the next best solution.
So there is hope
You can hack this with a bit of perl. Threw this together as an example and I'm sure someone has more time to create a read, edit, write perl script.
scp'd file to my linux box. Ran perl script against it & copied back. Voila
#!/usr/bin/perl
open FILE, ">>dynamic-text.dat" or die $!;
binmode FILE;
print FILE "****";
close(FILE);
You can also do a very quick dump of words with strings.
Hey terrafx,
Thats just awesome
Thanks!!!
well, its not hard earned experience to that extent. but if you want your iphone to "learn" words. text people. the iphone will learn that way. and it will be put into the dictionary when youre using safari or notes or whatever else you have in your iphone. believe me since i speak another language and the iphone basically knows another language by now. and no, it does not change my words to shift or duck.
Good tip for users that dont like big fat cases are:
Remember the main reason for users buying cases are to protect it from scratches ok ive done this and works ok
For the back you cover the area that sits in contact with a surface with 3 strips of black electrical tape this will also stop the iphone from sliding around.
For the front you cut 4 bits of electrical tape each half a cm x cm and place 1 in each corner and this is enough to keep the screen off a surface but allows you to have it with out a cases
you can add words to dictionary on any phone but why not the iphone?!
Thank you!!!! My initials are SLW - which the phone always tried to change to SOW - and . . . that's just mean! I'm NOT a SOW. I had rejected the correction at least a hundred times, and the iPhone was not getting the hint. After searching for SLW on Safari - and turning phone off & back on - I can finally type my own initials without being insulted by iPhone.
Nigguh..this shizzo iz kleen... i bin trine to doo thizz shizzo fo a long azz mufukin tyme... ya digg...we big tymers up in thos whole
HOW DO I ADD NAMES AND HAVE THEM BE AUTOMATICALLY CAPITALIZED?
I'm becoming more and more mystified by my iPhone spellchecker. With 2.x firmware it corrected nsw/Nsw (my home state in Australia) to NSW but stopped with 3.x firmware. Ironically, the iPhone wasn't even released in Australia till the 3G phone
Today it suggested "Ute" as a fix for "Yes".
I'd also like it to stop trying to capitalise "msg" as "MSG".
can't we just add those words to that database file ?
i mean manually by accessing the file
Sorry to sound really basic ... i use my phone mainly for SMS, email and phone calls, not as a mini PC. Where do I, and how do i access this database file? Im happy to spend the time just typing in the words i want , so long as it helps in the long run.
I've got the opposite problem. For some annoying reason, my iPhone now types I'm WITH the bloody apostrophe - 'I'm. How can I go into the dictionary and change it back? I'm a noobie so don't know much about this, and I'm on a PC if that matters...?
Please help me, it's driving me insane.
who cares. anybody in todays world is going to know exactly what your talking about when you text them "I'm ducked up"
Gahhh it still won't learn my name, even though the old software did!
Ya my damned iPod touch 3G now writes the word me with a damned apostophe -- like me'
WTF