Fix your iPhone's autocorrect

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What’s worse than not having the right tool for a job? Having a tool for the job that doesn’t work properly and makes everything more difficult and annoying.

That’s exactly what the iPhone’s autocorrect feature can be — especially lately.

If it simply fixed your typos, it would be a dream. But instead, thanks to a recently eliminated bug, it became a bit of a nightmare.

As Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones says in today’s featured how-to, autocorrect is supposed to be smart and helpful.

“It’s not supposed to drive you half-mad by constantly changing what you’re trying to type into something else entirely,” he writes.

Luckily, there’s a simple way to fix the iPhone’s broken autocorrect.

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Companies get confused. When they start getting bigger, they want to replicate their initial success. And a lot of them think,”Well, somehow there is some magic in the process of how that success was created.” So they start to try to institutionalize process across the company. And before very long, people get very confused that the process is the content.

— Steve Jobs, 1995.

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