In French, there is a preposition with àn accented a. It looks like this: à
I downloaded a French keyboard, but the letters are in really fucky places: Á is where Q is, and M is where L is, for example
I found that to be àn annoying quirk, so I decided to use my normal English keyboard
Never mind the fact that A is one of the top ten most common words in English, and I have typed it hundreds of thousands of times, it only took one French lesson for my iPhone to have àn epiphany: THIS is how the letter A is meant to be written
Now, when I swipe an, it gets accented: àn. It often happens with the letter à, too, but not as consistently. I can’t find out why.
For whatever fucking brilliant UX design principle that is beyond my comprehension, you are not actually able to tell your iPhone dictionary to forget à particular text replacement. It’s just not an option. You want to do that, you have to reset your entire fucking keyboard to factory settings.
I asked ChatGPT if there’s anything else I could do, as I really don’t want to do that, and it suggested that Apple used machine learning to learn your typing habits and figure out what you mean to say when you interact with the keyboard in certain ways. As such, since your keyboard has learned à bad habit, you can just unteach it: type à and àn à bunch of times and manually click a and an in the suggested options, and your phone will learn that, when you are typing in English, you do not want to use this letter then literally doesnt fuckinng exist in English
So I tried
An
An
An
An
I did that shit for thirty minutes
You know what?
Àn
Putain
TL;DR learn French at your own risk
AhaowbwaipaoqbqgzusooqnagysiqoqnabYoqlqnsg ydiekqnVzywiqkqbsgzuwiq
Comments
Crazy
Iphone problems man. On an android you could just click on the suggestion “à” and then “remove from learned words”.
Oh my god, I’m dying here. The “putain” at the end there damn near finished me off.
Also, condolences. I have spent some time wrestling with French keyboards and accented characters, and it’s a pain in the ass.
All my iphone settings are defaulted to English. My Spanish is terrible, but half my family is Hispanic so I have the Spanish keyboard and I use it sometimes when I’m trying to figure out how to communicate.
50% of the time my keyboard defaults to Spanish. No idea why.
The best part…resetting your dictionary may not even help. I typed “bercause” one time on accident 10 years ago, and anytime i try to type because it thinks that’s what I want. I’ve reset it at least half a dozen times over the years for that and other things and it doesn’t work.
Idk how yall get this problem. I have always used apple and i learn all sorts of languages all the time. only problem is ever have is my keyboard switching on its own, but i just adjust when it switches.
Maybe I’m too android to understand, but don’t you have the option to switch keyboards ? If you have several it will gradually fix itself no ?
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I appreciate the suggestion of text replacement
Can you download a different keyboard app? is that a thing on apple devices?
It looks like you have mastered the “putain”, you’re basically fluent now. No need for an app anymore !
I have the same problem. I need the French keyboard, but now I regularly get French accents even when using the qwerty keyboard. So annoying …
I learned recently that you can disable the apply dictionary in the keyboard settings. Maybe that could help?