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To think "brace" is a more commonly used word than "brace"?

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SerfTerf · 21/07/2017 11:28

What IS autocorrect's bloody problem?

Also "in it" is something it ALWAYS tries to change to "innit" (!)

Who programmes these things?

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tabbymog · 21/07/2017 12:37

Google 'how to turn off autocorrect on phone'?

CaoNiMartacus · 21/07/2017 12:40

Another one my phone likes to do - it corrects my initial (S) to a completely different one (A) when I'm signing off emails. I didn't notice for a while, until a client asked me if I sometimes go by a different name Blush

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 21/07/2017 12:42

Ducking Auto carrot

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/07/2017 12:43

I am too emotionally involved in anything to do with the sheer c*ntishness of autocorrect to even read this fun thread.

It is an effing eff and I wish it would eff off to the far side of eff and then eff off some more.

(You would not believe how many tines I had to correct the above as I was typing. The effer.)

WaspsAreBastards · 21/07/2017 12:44
Grin
emwithme · 21/07/2017 12:45

When my best friend was Very Pregnant, and I was wondering what present to buy, someone suggested the Dream Sheep - so I texted her to see if she already had one. Except Autocorrect decided that Ewan was a shit name for a sheep, so the Dream Sheep is now named Rwanda.

BeyondDrinksAndKnowsThings · 21/07/2017 12:45

I get annoyed when my ac changes the right they're/their/there to the wrong one - as I'm so pedantic about using the right one!!

RaisingMissDaisy · 21/07/2017 12:46

Anyone remember "I'm slowcooking porn..(..) " ??

Pithlit · 21/07/2017 12:54

I just had a text from my friend which said 'Dad's just been up the hospital and they say he IS dead.' Luckily I knew he was there for a hearing test. 😆

FreudianSlurp · 21/07/2017 12:59

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SnugglySnerd · 21/07/2017 13:00

I am actually crying at Rwanda the dream sheep.

SerfTerf · 21/07/2017 13:06

@SchadenfreudePersonified come on, you must be able to raise a small smirk for anal, 3sum or Rwanda?? Smile

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Addley · 21/07/2017 13:10

My therapist once emailed me, when I was feeling particularly low and suicidal, beginning:

"Dead Addley,"

She was (ahem) mortified. I told her it was the only thing I'd laughed at in days.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/07/2017 13:11

SerfTerf

I can indeed raise smirks of all sizes! Grin And a lot of my own corrected posts have had me wetting myself, they're so idiotic!

It's when I'm on a rant and post my venomous diatribe only to realise when I see it in the print, so to speak, that it is totally unintelligible because of all of the autocorrects.

And like an early poster - I really do say "fuck" that often and rarely mention ducks at all, but the autocorrect will insist on making my language "toddler-friendly".

The bastard. Angry

Gemini69 · 21/07/2017 13:11

this is brilliant.. cheered me right up lol as it's such a miserable day here lol

DeepfriedPizza · 21/07/2017 13:15

my autocorrect changes "you" to "yiu" which isn't even a word!!

AudTheDeepMinded · 21/07/2017 13:16

I once 'dated' a guy who kept going awol. He sent me a text on one occasion saying that he liked me but felt a bit 'sacred'...
I also like the fact that it changes a siblings name to 'mafia' and a best friend to 'heifer'. That's got me in trouble once or twice.

SerfTerf · 21/07/2017 13:16

And like an early poster - I really do say "fuck" that often and rarely mention ducks at all

Grin 
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SerfTerf · 21/07/2017 13:18

Oh @Addley I don't know whether to laugh or feel very very sorry for her Smile

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Thegingerpig · 21/07/2017 13:24

I have friends called James and Sarah. Once sent a text to them both and it corrected their names to Jesus and Satan!

LumelaMme · 21/07/2017 13:28

We always call it autocorrupt. My phone now brings it up as a word in preference to autocorrect.

sticklebrix · 21/07/2017 13:29

thegingerpig GrinGrin

PurpleAlerts · 21/07/2017 13:32

Mine always corrects deaf to dead.
Which is a bit disconcerting when I sign off texts on my work phone as PurpleAlerts- Teacher of the Dead. 😬

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/07/2017 13:32

Lumela

Brilliant!!!!

That's my new term.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/07/2017 13:35

Purple

That is just beyond superb . . .

I wish that mine had changed my title to "Specialist in Iatrogenic Vice Disorders"

Alas, it was not to be. I was stuck with being a voice specialist . . . . Sad

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