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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Beril Naz Hassan

How to stop your iPhone’s ‘ducking’ autocorrect

Almost every single iPhone user has found themselves passionately typing away when the iOS autocorrect interferes and changes a popular evocative word to “ducking”. It is arguably one of the most annoying things about being a user of Apple products.

Apple has finally acknowledged how much of a pain in the backside this is and revealed that it will improve its autocorrect feature in iOS 17, which will be available as a public beta in July, with the general release happening in September.

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