thomas fitzgerald.net

There’s been a lot written about the bugs in the iPhone 2.0 software and I mean a lot. Most concentrate on apps crashing or the long back up times, or general sluggishness, but for me personally there is one other issue that I haven’t seen that widely reported that is far more frustrating. The keyboard no longer seems to remember custom words. It worked great in 1.x versions of the software. If you wanted it to remember a word you just tapped it and it was stored in the dictionary for future use. Not so much in 2.0.

For example, the local tram service here in dublin is called the “Luas” (It means “speed” in Irish) but every time I go to type it into a text entry field on the iPhone it comes up “lias”. No matter how many times i tap it it won’t remember the correct spelling for more than the current session. It’s incredibly annoying. If I hadn’t used the original iPhone this probably wouldn’t bug me so much but this was one of the great features of the original software. The way it quickly remembered words made the keyboard a joy to use and after a while it almost never got things wrong, but in 2.0 I’m constantly having to correct place names and slang. So, if anyone from Apple is listening, please fix it for the next version. Please.