> kiwis have no idea how to write the special o (myself included)
I’m in New Zealand too. I work in MRI and have to type ‘TE’ (echo time) regularly, as well as the Māori word ‘te’.
Whatever secret sauce Apple sprinkles into iOS is actually malignant and it takes about 3 edits to type te/TE whenever I try.
I’m 2y into having an iPhone, generally liking it better but autocorrect alone keeps me on the edge of switching back to android, that’s how bad it is. It’s not even about comparing to android, it’s just that iOS is bad. If I had a bigger phone I’d turn it off entirely but on a mini it’s juuuust useful enough that it makes me want to throw my phone against the wall _less_ than if it was off.
I honestly want to have a coffee chat with the PM in charge of autocorrect at apple, I need to understand what the hell they are thinking!
Yeah, Apple's autocorrect implementation is shockingly bad. Android is much better in this regard.