We’ve all been there. You mean to type a simple phrase like “What do you want for lunch today?” and it comes across as, “What do you it want for launch tidy?” Autocorrect mistakes are so commonplace, and have been for so long, that we barely even acknowledge them anymore unless they’re unintentionally hilarious.
Why is this? We’re coming up on 15 years of the iPhone—the device that pioneered and popularized touch-only keyboard input—and autocorrect has been with us in some form or another since the ’90s when Word would automatically correct accidental caps-lock typing or common misspellings.
After decades and of devices sold, not to mention that meteoric rise of machine learning and AI, autocorrect feels
