There’s nothing more untimely than typing out an impassioned speech only to see autocorrect has changed your carefully chosen words into “duck” and “ducking.” Sure, it could bring a laugh in a tense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Say 'bagelz' if you want. Now, it's not all bad. The update makes it easier to swear—your iPhone shouldn't duck that up anymore.

You can turn off autocorrect on your iPhone or iPad from the Keyboard page of the Settings app. You can also disable spell-check, predictive text, auto-capitalization, and more. Autocorrect can be ...

For iPhone users, texting curse words hasn't traditionally been an easy task, with "duck" being the stand-in for many people's favorite f-word. But Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers ...

What the duck is going on? iPhone users are furious with Apple’s latest iOS update, accusing the autocorrect of “ruining their lives.” Unhappy iPhone users have taken to Twitter to air their ...

Any iPhone user with their autocorrect function turned on knows that a certain four-letter expletive will be replaced immediately by the rhyming name of a species of waterfowl — but not for much ...

Most autocorrect errors are funny, like a digital Mad Libs. But sometimes we send messages without realizing how embarrassing they are. Here’s the good news: You actually have a lot of power over the ...

The thing is, as Zimmer writes, your phone has learned it from watching you: "iPhones, Android phones and other smartphones learn from the patterns of individual users so that suggested replacements ...