As an iOS dev, I can tell you this is an easy QOL fix...

Barkley·Jul 17, 2019·2 votes·3,827 views

Please turn off iOS/Android auto correct for your text fields on the boards.

Incredibly frustrating to try to talk about league champs on mobile and have them auto corrected to soma, Geiger, Jarvis, graves.... oh obviously graves works... Tengwar, blitzcrank (blitzcrank just gets a red underline like wtf you tryin to spell)

Idk if you’re using html, JavaScript, or whatever, but I can’t think of a language where it wouldn’t just be a Boolean on the text field object. Probably like .enableAutoCorrect = false or some equally obvious shit.

Put some junior/associate dev on it with a google search pointed at stack overflow. it’ll take them 4 seconds.

9 Comments

ModThe DjinnJul 17, 20193 votes

It's also frustrating to have a commonly expected feature of a text area (such as autocorrect) that you're used to having work suddenly stop working. I don't believe simply turning it off is such an "easy" UX answer as you suggest, as it does come with some significant downsides in other expected usability (even if the adjustment itself wouldn't be especially hard).

BarkleyJul 17, 20191 votes

It’s fairly common for web text fields to not implement auto correct (or disable it... I don’t know what the default behavior is). Usually does more harm than good because of things like website names, email addresses, company names, etc etc being so prevalent in online discussion.

I see your point though, but it is a feature that is disabled on many of the forums I visit, and I personally find it does more harm than good in a place like this.

ModThe DjinnJul 17, 20192 votes

{quoted}I see your point though, but it is a feature that is disabled on many of the forums I visit, and I personally find it does more harm than good in a place like this.

I'll mention it to the team to see what people think, but the ratio of normal words to League-specific words on the boards is still strongly in favor of normal words, so I personally believe there is more value in retaining the spellchecker than in removing it.

I'm also surprised you find there's a problem with your device remembering champion names, as iOS has had the ability to teach words by repetition since about 2012. Just use it frequently enough, or go into Notepad and type the word in question about 6+ times in a row and you should see it start to correct itself. My Android device has also started recognizing even obscure names like Cho'Gath, Kai'sa, etc.

DuskDaUmbreonJul 17, 20191 votes

My android keeps trying to correct "toy" to "you". >:L

DuskDaUmbreonJul 17, 20192 votes

Alternatively, just add the names to your dictionary.

Boom. Feature to solve the issue is in place. Took me all of 0 seconds to implement.

BarkleyJul 17, 20192 votes

You’re asking hundreds probably thousands of people to do data entry of about 130ish strings into a phone setting, using a smartphone keyboard nonetheless — probably take the average person 15-20 minutes. Putting the onus on the user to fix a development oversight.

instead of writing what is probably literally one line of code that fixes it for everyone all at once, that would probably take 15-20 seconds. Putting the onus correctly on the careless developer who thought auto correct was fine in an environment where made-up words are prevalent.

You’re a good developer I can tell.

KFCeytronJul 17, 20191 votes

Isn't autocorrect a device-specific feature? I set my phone to never ever change what I manually type in, and the most it'll do is underline the unrecognized word and provide suggestions. If I use that word a few times, it'll be added to the dictionary automatically. I can then use that word in my normal method of touchscreen keyboard input, which is swipe/glide typing.

If you disable autocorrect on a certain website's text fields, you lose it for all words, not just unusual ones. If you add new words to the dictionary instead, autocorrect turns into an advantage, correcting e.g. "Blotzcrank" to "Blitzcrank."

BarkleyJul 17, 20191 votes

I've had this phone for years, and I've visited this site frequently for the duration -- auto correct has never once learned a champion name.

The feature you're referencing might be only for text messaging? email? I don't know. All I know is that my shit still autocorrects to Jarvis after idk... 2-3 years.

And yes you can turn auto-correct on and off entirely on your phone but I don't think that's a very efficient solution, turning it off just to go to the league boards seems somewhat silly.

Maybe its my phone specifically (iPhone 8 or 9 or somethin.... its not new, is my point)

If new phones are "Learning" new words through frequency of use, then /thread.

KFCeytronJul 17, 20191 votes

{quoted}

I've had this phone for years, and I've visited this site frequently for the duration -- auto correct has never once learned a champion name.

The feature you're referencing might be only for text messaging? email? I don't know. All I know is that my shit still autocorrects to Jarvis after idk... 2-3 years.

And yes you can turn auto-correct on and off entirely on your phone but I don't think that's a very efficient solution, turning it off just to go to the league boards seems somewhat silly.

Maybe its my phone specifically (iPhone 8 or 9 or somethin.... its not new, is my point)

If new phones are "Learning" new words through frequency of use, then /thread.

I use Android with the Google Keyboard, so maybe that explains the different behavior.

P.S.: I don't think you have an iPhone 9 because Apple never made one. :P