I'm starting to think that a lot of phones removed the spellcheck feature, just because of the sheer number of online posts I've seen with blatant misspellings. And if someone else mentions it the response is inevitably "well, I'm on my phone and you know what I meant!"
I turned the autocorrect off on mine because it kept making incorrect corrections. I suspect a bunch of ESL DEI hires are currently employed maintaining those spellcheck features.
It's not just the phones, something happened to spell-check in browsers too.
I've seen Chrome-based browsers not able to correct one character wrong in a twelve character long word, not even needing to add or remove a character just fix one vowel. A 1980s spell checker using 20k of memory was better than what we have today.
I haven't looked into why but I'd guess when they 'upgraded' it for unicode and non-English languages the programmers assigned to it were idiots. Eventually they'll dumb it down even more and use a hundred billion parameter LLM to do it as well as Levenshtein and a Trie.
I'm starting to think that a lot of phones removed the spellcheck feature, just because of the sheer number of online posts I've seen with blatant misspellings. And if someone else mentions it the response is inevitably "well, I'm on my phone and you know what I meant!"
I turned the autocorrect off on mine because it kept making incorrect corrections. I suspect a bunch of ESL DEI hires are currently employed maintaining those spellcheck features.
It's not just the phones, something happened to spell-check in browsers too.
I've seen Chrome-based browsers not able to correct one character wrong in a twelve character long word, not even needing to add or remove a character just fix one vowel. A 1980s spell checker using 20k of memory was better than what we have today.
I haven't looked into why but I'd guess when they 'upgraded' it for unicode and non-English languages the programmers assigned to it were idiots. Eventually they'll dumb it down even more and use a hundred billion parameter LLM to do it as well as Levenshtein and a Trie.
edit: Yep. Chrome and Firefox now use Hunspell and "Hunspell [is] designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding ... Unicode UTF-8-encoded". Non-CS degree lead programmer on it brags about non-standard hyphenation support /facepalm