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Autocorrect has become atrocious? I did a little experiment with an iPhone first gen.

This subject has been covered a lot, obviously. But, I was feeling nostalgic for the first iPhone ever and bought one in decent working condition. Whew! Slow! But, to be expected. Anyway, I was curious to see how bad autocorrect has become over the last 18 years or so. To me, it’s almost comical how bad it’s become. So, I fired up the iPhone 2G on iOS 3.3.1. Opened the text app and started writing messages (didn’t send as I have no connection to it). Folks, it was almost shocking how accurate the autocorrect is on my ancient iPhone. Perfect? No, but I typed as fast as I could and I’d say it got about 85 percent right. It’s the way we remember it. You could FLY writing emails and texts. Night and day compared to iOS 26.x. For the life of me, I just can’t understand what happened. What did they do? Why did they do it? Anyway, that’s my incredibly un-scientific experiment. But, it’s not our imagination. Autocorrect used to be very, very good. submitted by /u/rotorobot [link] [comments]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1rhncbc/autocorrect_has_become_atrocious_i_did_a_little/