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About ducking time! Apple's autocorrect feature is getting a HUGE upgrade in iOS 17 – and it means your iPhone will be able to learn your favourite swear words

There is nothing like an irritating autocorrect to undermine the impact of a strongly worded message.

But the days of the prudish iPhone swapping out swear words in messages could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to an update featured in the iOS 17 upgrade.

The update will keep Apple's autocorrect feature from correcting one of the English language's favoured expletives to 'ducking.'

'In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,' said Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief, at the Worldwide Developers Conference last night.

The iPhone keyboard autocorrect feature has always had its quirks, with its substituted words prone to changing the meaning of a particular sentence.

Such mistakes generally produce follow-up texts along the lines of 'damn autocorrect!'

But the 'ducking' instead of 'f***ing' substitution is a long-standing source of both mirth and frustration.

Thankfully, in iOS 17, the feature is receiving a 'comprehensive update'.

In a post in its newsroom, Apple explained: 'Autocorrect receives a comprehensive update with a transformer language model, a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model for word prediction — improving the experience and accuracy for users every time they type.

It also receives a refreshed design to better support typing, and sentence-level autocorrections can fix more types of grammatical mistakes.'

In iOS 17, users will receive predictive text recommendations inline as they type.

This means adding entire words or completing sentences will be as easy as tapping the space bar, therefore making text entry faster than ever.

While the software update will not be released until September, the news about the autocorrect changes is being welcomed by iPhone users, including one who called it 'ducking marvellous'.

Another wrote: 'About ducking time cos the amount of ducks I've typed and it doesn't ducking spell it right.'

One user added: 'Good, because, until now the only real corrective has been to add your favorite profanities as individual entries in your address book, which is… not great.'

And one joked: 'iPhone autocorrect will now learn the F-word. Duck yeah.'

Aside from the changes to autocorrect, Apple is also making a small but mighty change to Siri - users can drop the 'Hey' and only need to say 'Siri' to activate the virtual assistant.

The operating system will also see new apps geared toward your physical and mental health, along with personalised posters of a user that shows their photo or emoji to a call recipient.

A live voicemail feature also transcribes messages directly on the display, allowing you to ignore or answer the call.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Colour me surprised.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Colour me surprised.