Ipad autocorrect - strange behaviour?

Kittenonthekeys

Please does anyone have any idea if it's possible to change the words in the built-in 'dictionary' of predictive text / auto-correct in the ipad (if indeed there are any default words built-in?)
Although I really like the feature and find it very useful most of the time, when I make a simple typo or forget to press the space bar, the ipad changes many of the most commonly-used words to nonsensical ones, for example:
Something = so,etching
I = Zi (that's the most bizarre and annoying one of all....)
Possible = ossicle
Repair = rair
Louise = Zloty
Turning = Turing
I tried disabling autocorrect and capitalisation within Settings, but found that even more inconvenient, as obviously it then stopped correcting everything.
Has anyone else had this problem and found a way around it, and if so, how?
(Apart from typing properly with more haste/less speed?
Thanks!

terra_ferma

Kittenonthekeys wrote: »

Please does anyone have any idea if it's possible to change the words in the built-in 'dictionary' of predictive text / auto-correct in the ipad (if indeed there are any default words built-in?)
Although I really like the feature and find it very useful most of the time, when I make a simple typo or forget to press the space bar, the ipad changes many of the most commonly-used words to nonsensical ones, for example:
Something = so,etching
I = Zi (that's the most bizarre and annoying one of all....)
Possible = ossicle
Repair = rair
Louise = Zloty
Turning = Turing
I tried disabling autocorrect and capitalisation within Settings, but found that even more inconvenient, as obviously it then stopped correcting everything.
Has anyone else had this problem and found a way around it, and if so, how?
(Apart from typing properly with more haste/less speed?
Thanks!

Have you bought (knowingly or unknowingly) a second hand one, where someone entered some custom words?
(You may think you bought a new one, but once I bought a new computer from Currys and found lots of files on it, they sold me a second one computer instead of a new one)

securityguy

Have you changed the phone's language settings? I had cause to run my phone in French for a few days, and it has some bizarre side-effects. If you set your phone to language X, it adds the keyboard (and hence the auto-correct settings) to the things that the world symbol cycles through when you are typing (the button you normally use to flick between letters and Emoji, if you have it enabled). However, if you then put your phone back to English, it leaves the additional keyboard lurking, ready to trap you.

Kittenonthekeys

Thank you both - aspects that had never occurred to me.
I got my ipad brand new from Argos and it really didn't look as though it had ever been used before.
No, I have never changed the language settings and have never even looked at them before.
Please could you tell me whereabouts in the settings language can be accessed? (It's an ipad, btw, not an iPhone. I do also have an iPhone, but interestingly enough, the autocorrect works properly on that and has never caused any problems or added any bizarre words!)

Kittenonthekeys

...just found the language settings (DOH!) - it's set to English and only has one keyboard listed.
I got the ipad in original factory-sealed Apple packaging, so no idea what has happened!

Kittenonthekeys

Clearly, I'm not the only one.
Quote from a post I found on another site:

"I had to turn the autocorrect on my ipad off. It seemed to think that the English language was some magical, make-believe language that allowed it the freedom to do whatever the f*** it wanted at all times. Example: I type, "We went out to dinner last night with Shayna" and ipad interprets what it thinks I meant and spits out, "Cobbleslubfernixle Bob." I'm not even exaggerating. It made me want to punch myself in the face. IT friend told me that the ipad is "supposedly" programmed to learn a little and eventually the autocorrect mistakes for him vanished.
Honestly, I'm not willing to wait. It was either turn it off or chop it into small pieces and bury it in the woods...ironically, my iphone has never had a single issue."