Intended to be a timesaving feature on the iPhone, the auto-correct feature automatically corrects words it recognizes as misspelled as you type. Auto-correct may be an annoyance for some users, ...

Ever since the iPhone launched almost five years ago, we've been struggling with its auto correct feature. Sometimes, it works great, figuring out what we mean as if by magic. Other times it ...

I don’t know when exactly I started to hate the auto-correct function on my phone. I know it was long before a friend texted me as to what I thought of a movie last month. I texted back: “Two things ...

Writing an email on your iPhone or iPod touch with a lot of jargon? Tapping out a text in another language? Here's how you can prevent the overbearing auto-correct feature from slowing you down. A ...

Sometimes I say bad words. Not in my stories -- The Washington Post is a family publication -- but in messages to friends, in person, while making coffee, during meetings and anywhere it won't get me ...

Have you ever typed a text into your smart phone and sent it, only to realize that the auto correct feature changed "Disney" to "divorce?" Ben Zimmer, On Language columnist for The New York Times ...

One of the reasons I enjoy OS X is the system-wide spell-checker that's available in any application built to include this function (an easy thing to do with Apple's developer tools). Topher, an avid ...

Windows currently has a feature where if you mis-spell a word in Word, it will auto-correct it. A quick example would be 'teh', which will auto-correct to 'the'. This spelling auto-correct seems to ...