What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

gennepher said:

I had a word with ChatGPT @Krystyna23040
He tells me this (I call ChatGPT a he!)


“Autocorrect on the iPad can be far more stubborn than on the Pixel — you’re not imagining it.
Apple’s system will often re-apply a “correction” AFTER you’ve fixed it, which is exactly what you’re seeing.

Here’s what’s really going on and what you can do:

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️ Why your iPad keeps undoing your corrections
1. Apple’s autocorrect learns aggressively
If it thinks a word “should” be something else (like Mold → Mode), it will change it after you press space, even if you’ve corrected it before.
2. Turning off Spellcheck doesn’t turn off Predictions
Spellcheck ≠ predictive text.
So even with Spellcheck off, it still “guesses” and replaces words.
3. iPad autocorrect overrides manual edits more than Android
Pixel gives back control quicker, but iPad tries to be “helpful” even when you don’t want it.

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✔ How to stop the worst of it (without losing suggestions)

These steps keep the predictive strip but reduce the forced corrections:

1. Keep “Check Spelling” ON

You’ve already seen that turning it off removes suggestions.

2. Turn OFF “Auto-Correction” only

Go to:
Settings → General → Keyboard → Auto-Correction → OFF

This stops the iPad from forcing its chosen word after you type.

You will still get the suggestions bar, but it won’t change your words unless you tap the suggestion.

3. Optional: Turn ON “Auto-Capitalisation” and “Smart Punctuation”

These help things look clean without messing with your words.

4. If a name or place keeps getting “corrected”, add it to Text Replacement

This is a trick to stop the iPad overriding you.

Go to:
Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement

Add:
• Phrase: Mold
• Shortcut: mold

This makes the iPad stop changing it to “mode” or “mow”.

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Why the Pixel doesn’t do this

Android gives the user final control.
If you correct something, it learns quickly.
Apple often “thinks it knows better” and keeps reverting until you train it otherwise.

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I am trying this at the moment @Krystyna23040

Perhaps you can do these suggestions on your kindle?

But, obviously I do not know what other settings you have turned on, on your Kindle…..

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• enough → up
• in → I
• of → if
• at → as
• no → on

gennepher said:

@Krystyna23040

I was still having some problems with the iPad...
So I had to get back to ChatGPT.
I explained what the problems were. And ChatGPT asked me to do some test stuff with him.

Then he said
"Thank you — that one change tells me exactly what’s happening.

Your typing is fine. This is dictation smoothing still running in the background, even when you aren’t using dictation.

(dictation was turned off at this point)

On some iPads — especially older minis — the dictation engine tries to “guess” if a short word is wrong and quietly replaces it after you press send. It often changes:

• enough → up
• in → I
• of → if
• at → as
• no → on

All classic dictation-ghost behaviour.

We can calm it down further."

I was getting all those above problems.

So another series of steps turning things off, then sending him a message, and then turning things on again some of them and then sending him a message, and so on... finally we had to turn some of the things back on again... and so far it's working pretty much okay... doing nothing of the stupid stuff it used to do... fingers crossed.

I really did get fed up with people treating me as though I was stupid saying, well all you've got to do is turn spellcheck off or grammar check off. It was nowhere near as simple as that... there was a ghost in the works that I could do nothing about....

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