An iOS 11.1 Glitch Is Replacing Vowels (mashable.com) 123
An anonymous reader quotes Mashable:
We became privy to a new iPhone keyboard glitch after a few Mashable staffers recently started having issues with their iPhone keyboards, specifically with vowels. The issue started when iOS 11's predictive text feature began to display an odd character in the place of the letter "I," offering up "A[?] instead and autocorrecting within the message field...The bug was also covered by MacRumors, but it appears that my colleagues have even more issues than just the letter "I." One reported that they were also seeing the glitch with the letters "U" and "O" as well, making the problem strictly restricted to vowels. They also said the letters showed up oddly in iMessage on Mac devices, and shared some more screenshots of what the glitch looks like when they went through with sending a message. The glitch wasn't just limited to iMessage, however. My colleagues shared screenshots of their increasingly futile attempts to type out messages on Facebook Messenger...and Twitter.
Apple seems to be acknowledging that the iOS 11.1 glitch may affect iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. "Here's what you can do to work around the issue until it's fixed by a future software update," Apple posted on a support page, advising readers to "Try setting up Text Replacement for the letter 'i'."
Apple seems to be acknowledging that the iOS 11.1 glitch may affect iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. "Here's what you can do to work around the issue until it's fixed by a future software update," Apple posted on a support page, advising readers to "Try setting up Text Replacement for the letter 'i'."
Noticed I have not, lookyou. (Score:5, Funny)
Noticed this not I have. But then Welsh I am, Boyo.
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Why are racist posts like the parent modded up on Slashdot? The old Slashdot didn't tolerate racism, but it seems like it's okay now.
Hognoxious, you should apologize for your racist post.
"Not being racist is the new racism." - Jeff Winger on "Community"
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Only among people who can't spell xenophobia.
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You can hate someone without being afraid of them.
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Lots of modern words don't mean exactly what you'd get by decomposing to their classical roots, translating them, and reassembling the result.
Pornography is not [necessarily] writing about prostitutes, for example.
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And your reply above that was literally to someone talking about the changing definition of words.
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You're just jealous because I know big words and you don't.
noun: xenophobia [google.com]
dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
"racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe"
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No bad feelings, so I forgive you too.
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Noticed this not I have. But then Welsh I am, Boyo.
I'm Welsh, and I will keep this on record in case I decide to be offended by it in the future.
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Careful, you'll trigger someone.
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I bet he couldn't even point to Walce on a map!
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U hate Naggers?
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Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
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Oh, didn't you hear? You can buy the new iVowels for only $199 per device.
Soon they'll be launching iTalk ;-) which will be a proprietary language necessary for the use of all iCrap (and essential as a caste indicator). It'll be based in equal parts on Esperanto and Scientology.
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One caveat: you only get the plain vowels for that. If you want umlauts and other funny squiggles you need iVowel Premium, a snip at $349 (plus tax).
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Dude, vowels are the hot new tech. They're much newer than the consonants. Try reading early Latin or any Semitic language before this new vowels tech hit the scene.
Sort of like math using pen and paper is WAY newer than calculators (in the form of the abacus and similar high-tech stuff).
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Nt al vwls ar nw. Smtc hs a gltl ltr [wikipedia.org] cld Alf [slashdot.org] fr wrds tht strt wth a vwl snd. Ths bcm th Ltn ltr A.
(Not all vowels are new. Semitic has a glottal letter called Alef for words that start with a vowel sound. This became the Latin letter A.)
Re: Makes sense to me. (Score:2)
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Dn't y mn, "Lk th Hdphn jck, vwls r bslt"?
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Now, sure, some might say "Hey, I still use vowels, they're really useful when you're trying to distinguish between two words that have the same consonants, but a different sound joining them, like "cat" and "cut"", but that's old thinking, as leaving a gap is perfectly fine and should be good enough for everyone. Who cares if you were using lots of cheap old consonants? They're inefficient and completely unnecessary. So cat at out.
Here on Marklar we refer to all people, places and things as Marklar
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Like the Headphone jack, vowels are obsolete. It makes sense for Apple to phase them out for us in their latest phones, hopefully leading the rest of the industry to remove them from Android phones, keyboards in general, and so on, within the next couple of years.
i is a vowel.
I is a personal pronoun.
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You joke but I believe this is exactly what Arabic does.
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f yu cn rd ths, yu rlly nd t gt ld...
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S d spkrs of Hbrw and Arbc nd t "b frtfl and mltpl" mr?
Re:Vlws r prcs (Score:5, Funny)
Write English!
Damn Czechs.
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Oh, and thanks for the laugh.
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I don't care about labels. Toss your label on the pile behind me, I think there's still room between "Fascist", "Misogynist", "Pinko Commie" and "SJW".
Do you take Czechs? (Score:2)
Czechia... a whole country built around the idea of paying someone for services with an IOU...
So that's what that is.... (Score:3)
Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Does this explain the outbreak of &@(TM)$ that seems to be afflicting our beloved site?
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No. That's because iPhones insert smart quotes by default and Slashdot mangles anything outside ASCII.
https://www.jordanmerrick.com/... [jordanmerrick.com]
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This is honestly the sort of lunatic American nationalism that I unironically admire.
two spaces == Period and Apostrophe catastrophe (Score:2)
Since Sierra my computer started replacing all double spaces with a period. Gahhhh!!!
turns out this is a checkbox option in the Preferences>keyboard>text setting in OSX.
why would that be an important optimization. It's not even fewer keystrokes and almost never ever something you would want to rely on. ever.
Anyhow that same preference pane tab is where you turn off smart quotes and keep slashdot from changing your apostrophes to catastrophes.
Re: two spaces == Period and Apostrophe catastro (Score:2)
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It's amazing how many people don't write like that.I find it very annoying,don't you?
Yes, but ... (Score:5, Funny)
Hundreds of new emoji are coming with iOS 11.1 !! Youhou !!!
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Hundreds of new emoji are coming with iOS 11.1 !! Youhou !!!
Proper spelling will always come secondary to smiling turds.
Why rewrite code that works? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Probably because input is a major limiting factor, particularly in an age where people are doing more and more on their phone. Even a small increment in input ease translates to a large increase in convenience. But on the flip side, even a small bug can be a big frustration.
So the answer is it is sometimes quite important to improve a working bit of code, particularly in a competitive environment, but you really, really have to be sure that you're actually improving it.
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I don't think Apple is even doing QA any more.
I'm seeing all kinds of bugs everywhere.
-- Text alignment on messages (keyboard interferes so I can't see what I'm writing, first line scrolls halfway off the screen, etc... )
-- Focus jumping around on forms I'm trying to fill out on Safari. Several web sites. Tried to sign-up to their mailing list and couldn't. Safari kept jumping back two or three fields in mid-word as I typed.
-- Text messages arrive on my computer but not on my phone. Or messages take hours t
Revenge of Clippy (Score:2)
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I don't see the problem here...
Yr Hldng T Wrng (Score:5, Funny)
I just can't shake the idea... (Score:2)
Buy a vowel (Score:2)
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chuck woolery left in 1981
Re: How did they fuck that up?! (Score:2)
Something about this smells (Score:2)
Sigh. (Score:2)
Never mind the price, feel the quality...
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Okay.
You cannot use or obtain iOS legally without spending many times more than other brands charge for phones that don't fuck up when you ask them the weather (The Reg article today).
Supposedly, that cost goes on the "quality" of the device. I wasn't even referring to iOS when I made my comment. Because this is one in a never-ending series of cock-ups by Apple over the last few years that show their app store vetting, device production quality, software update mechanisms and basic software quality are no
Here's my diagnosis (Score:5, Funny)
Irritable Vowel Syndrome.
That Takes Crg! (Score:2)
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It takes a corgi? Yeah, they're cute dogs, but...
It's ok ! (Score:5, Funny)
Not a bug (Score:2)
Unicode gone awry (Score:5, Interesting)
The problematic sequence that gets generated is the capital I followed by the hex sequence ef b8 8f, which is known as Variation Selector 16. That's “An invisible codepoint which specifies that the preceding character should be displayed with emoji presentation. Only required if the preceding character defaults to text presentation.” So in a sense it's technically correct, it's trying to say to display an eye or eyes when you've typed an "I". The problem is twofold: a) people aren't trying to type emoji, and 2) it doesn't actually work.
Could be more ominous reason. (Score:2)
Perhaps, like some journalists [slashdot.org], the vowels are trying to unionize.
Who wants Predictive Text (Score:2)
I hate predictive text. When I search for "BBW" it gives me "BBC", which is not what I want whatever is meant by it.
Re: Who wants Predictive Text (Score:2)
My guess is Robots and AI are lurking there (Score:2)
Captachas and auto correct is how the coming robot overlords are communicating. In fact my autocorrect is s....NOTHING IS WRONG WITH AUTOCORRECT. PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR DAY.
Fake New! (Score:2)
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Fk nws!
Apple software engineers learning about NLP (Score:2)