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Communicating with one another has never been easier than it is today. We can call, text, video chat, send messages through social media and even share our location with trusted friends and family members. But despite all of the technology we have at our fingertips, our devices still make plenty of euros– I mean, errors.
If you’ve ever quickly sent a text and relied on autocorrect to fix your mistakes, it’s very likely that the technology “ducked” up. From turning a gentle “haha” into an aggressive “HAHAHA” or completely altering the meaning of your message, autocorrect seems to have a mind of its own. Below, we’ve gathered some of the funniest autocorrect fails people have shared on X, so enjoy scrolling through, and remember to always double-check your messages before hitting “sand!”
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Bols 1 year ago
It is (: "Homophones are two or more words that share the same pronunciation, but which have different spellings or meanings. For example, the words 'hear' and 'here'"
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Autocorrect has saved me more times than I can count. I rely on it to be able to text quickly and not worry too much about spelling everything right. If it gets something wrong, I just follow up with a quick “*money not monkey” message and assume everything is fine. But autocorrect has also burned me and frustrated me more than a few times.
I used to hate how often it would change words that I typed to “duck” or “ducking,” so eventually, I made a “shortcut” in my phone that would change “duck” to what I actually meant. (You know, luck.) This worked well for a while, until I moved to a home on Duck Lane. Then, I had to remove that shortcut to ensure that I didn’t tell people I lived on a very vulgar sounding street.
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Heather Talma 1 year ago
It's important to know that you can get your monkey back if necessary!
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I would like a monkey-back guarantee. I'd return the product for the monkey in a heartbeat.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
There’s a running joke in a podcast I like, one of the characters is called Duck, and he’s truly terrible at lying. So the joke is that he got his nickname because he tried to lie over text, and it just kept autocorrecting his cursing to “duck”
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
IDK what it is lately, but every time I try to type Happy Birthday, it comes out as Bayou Birthday. Like, what even is that??
Surgichick 1 year ago
Again...You will know that I will NEVER mean to say "what the duck?" LOL
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I finally have my phone trained to not autocorrect and change every time I try and say fūck to duck. "Duck!! I'm so ducking pissed!" Was an interesting change of pace.
I also don’t understand autocorrect’s logic when it comes to what it decides to fix and what it will leave alone. For example, I can type “aminals” and it won’t change the word to “animals.” Yet it has no problem inserting words that make absolutely no sense in the context of what I’m writing, despite the fact that it can perfectly predict what I’d like to say in an email.
Most of us have a love-hate relationship with autocorrect, or should I say “love-hare” relationship? But we continue to use it because we’re creatures of habit, and if we turned it off completely, most of our messages might turn into incomprehensible gibberish. That, or we’d have to spend 5 minutes crafting a simple text in the same way that my parents do.
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unicorn 1 year ago
I A UNICORN HAVE DONE BADTHINGS, PRINCESS WHAT WILL YOU DO?
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I would like to see the whole text message to see what you was trying to say.
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TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 1 year ago
I mean, he is an exploding unicorn, and exploding usually means dying.
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Despite how much you might hate autocorrect, there’s a good chance that you still use it nearly every day. According to a 2022 survey, between 40-50% of people say that they always or almost always use autocorrect to fix spelling errors. And I can’t really blame them, because 63% of people admit to consistently misspelling the same words over and over again. Plus, 61% of us judge others for making spelling errors, so we certainly want to spare ourselves from that embarrassment. (Embarrassing/embarrassment used to be one of my most frequently misspelled words, but after a year at this job, I finally figured it out without needing autocorrect.)
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Tabitha 1 year ago
Mine seems to think I just like to make lists of people’s names, so will change words like carry to Carrie, or Christmas to Christine. I don’t even know a Carrie, except for the fictional one. Same with Christine. My spellcheck is starting to scare me. I swear it was programmed by Stephen King.
Dan Gardner 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure I'd get something thrown at me if I tried to order a 24 piece sweet & hot at International Women's Day.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Nothing ever made me feel more like part of the patriarchy than the little voice that said, "Oh, come on... you're complaining about Buffalo wings?"
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Delta Dawn 1 year ago
Mine once changed “Kind bars” to “live bats” while I was shopping and now I’m pretty sure I’m on a watch list
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Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
Apple Car Play reads HAHAHAHA in the most condescending voice ever.
Even with autocorrect, however, most of us still double-check our correspondence before sending it out into the world, just to be sure. PC Magazine reports that 86% of people spell check emails, and 62% of us spell check our text messages. A whopping 92% of us also spell check documents before sending them off.
But despite how reliant we are on spell check, many of us don’t realize how much we need it. Nearly 50% of people believe that they never or almost never misspell words when they write, and nearly half believe they rarely misspell words when typing and texting.
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Charity Angel 1 year ago
You know, that's probably quite a good foil for a panic attack. A funny autocorrect, making you laugh, could be enough to nudge the brain back into gear
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According to the New York Post, people with iPhones have even been complaining about autocorrect “ruining their lives.” Apparently, iOS update 16.3.1, which was released in early 2023, was particularly bad at fixing spelling errors. For example, it started automatically adding “z” after apostrophes instead of an “s,” and would change words that were perfectly fine into other words (for example, food to good). Lucky for iPhone users, however, Apple was dedicated to fixing this issue with iOS 17. Whether they did so successfully, however, is still up for debate.
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james stevenson 1 year ago
*Gasp* Ultron phone: "Peace in our time!" *hundreds of phones attack*
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If you’re tired of constantly fighting autocorrect to change words back to what you meant to say or to allow you to curse instead of referencing ducks all the time, there are a few settings on your phone that may be able to help you out. The Washington Post first recommends that if you hate autocorrect enough, you can simply turn the feature off. The same goes for automatic punctuation and capitalization; these features are not requirements.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
Let's hope this morbid is a better morbid than yesterday morbid
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Arlecchino The Knave 1 year ago (edited)
This is true. I'm sure feels like this for anyone who has to wake up early... or your monkey-back.
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Joanne Earle 1 year ago
Public bus in Victoria: 'Sorry, Not In Service' Public bus in the USA: 'NIS'
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You can also try slide texting instead of typing with your fingers if autocorrect keeps doing you dirty. “In my experience, it has a higher accuracy rate than when I absolutely butcher things with tap-tap-tapping,” Heather Kelly writes for the Washington Post. Another alternative is dictating your messages. Now, this might have its own host of issues, but it won’t lead to spelling words that are similar to what you’ve typed, but rather similar to how what you’ve said sounds. This can be a great option if you’re in a quiet place. Similarly, sending voice messages can ensure that autocorrect doesn’t have a chance to intervene.
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Kalle Wendt 1 year ago
Same happend to me! I wrote to my wife: "Love you and miss you" and autocorrect changed it to: "Stupid b**ch, you ruined my life"
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Is there such a thing as psychiatrists for auto-correct? Yours needs one.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
That's oddly specific. Hopefully it will at least be quick.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We'd nap on your lap while you watched it, if you bribed us with tuna.
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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Everyone but Lars was eliminated in that family.
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MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
It's like a zombie apocalypse movie, except there are no zombies.
Finally, you can adjust the dictionary on your phone and add “text-replacements.” For example, you can program your phone to change “TY” to thank you to save you time when typing. But you can also change words like “ducking” to… Well, you know. And “HAHAHA” to “hahaha,” etc. This feature doesn’t have to just be for shortcuts. It can be used to ensure your phone doesn’t change your name to some bizarre word or curse words to random words that are vaguely similar.
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Epona 1 year ago
This one (and "we're" to "were") has been happening to me a lot lately and it's driving me bonkers. I don't understand how and why a "smart" phone keeps getting contractions wrong so often. Microsoft Word spell check can autocorrect an apostrophe in a contraction, why can't my iPhone 7?
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
That makes me insane!! If I type the same thing 3 times in a row I do NOT want to have it changed.
LazyKitten 1 year ago
I have the opposite problem- every time I type i'll, it tries to autocorrect to ill
Stealthzilla 1 year ago
But then the one time I want it to change to we’ll it won’t (perfect example is that it didn’t do it right now) we’ll …that one was a test and sure enough when I wanted well it went to well I’m convinced it’s messing with me on purpose
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
Its (possessive) changed to it’s (contraction) and vice versa. For the love of god, why?!!
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Spooky beck 1 year ago
Whenever I write "u" as in "you" my phone changed it to "I". So for example if I say "u are a jerk" it changes it to "I are a jerk".
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Since “are” is the plural firm, would it be safe to assume autocorrect is counting all your personalities too? (jk)
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Arlecchino The Knave 1 year ago
Some of you might not play it, but I immediately imagined Kaeya from Genshin Impact... send help.
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._. 1 year ago
Fun fact about Mao (don't ask why I know this) it was considered an honor for a sex worker to get an sti from him
We hope you’re getting a kick out of all of these unfortunate autocorrect mishaps, pandas. Whether you have autocorrect completely turned off on your phone because it’s burned you too many times or you love the technology, keep scrolling through and upvoting the fails that you find most hilarious. Feel free to share down below if you have any funny autocorrect anecdotes of your own, and then check out this Bored Panda article featuring even more unfortunate autocorrect errors!
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Robert Millar 1 year ago
She wants me to send a picture of my hard disk. Should I take the cover off?
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MellonCollie 1 year ago
Dear god, you've been downvoted because .... because of what? Let's fix that real quick.
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Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
i try to gogole torturgasm but I'm at work and I don't want to be labeled as obsessed by my IT, so what is torturgasm? (real quetion :D)
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James Hall 1 year ago
About 4 1/2 years ago, judging by the date on that tweet
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JoyfulZebra 1 year ago (edited)
Who wouldn't want some nice páwned materials for the fall festival?
Jen Hart 1 year ago
Intended word was "corn." Autocorrected word was "pòrñ."
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Phoenix 1 year ago
I received a formal document recently which was supposed to say "in good faith", but it actually said "in food faith" and was not accompanied by food. Sigh.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
That's just false advertising there! Autowrong should be held responsible!
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River Daski 1 year ago
mine is constantly changing "i" to "u" when i type "you",,, and "this" into "thus".. when have i typed thus??? EVER???
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Robert Millar 1 year ago
You better of not been drinking again?! A grammatical terror, I thank.
Astro 1 year ago (edited)
I’ve been told that’s what happens when people don’t read a lot of books growing up, they go by the sound of the word (“better have/better’ve” sounds like “better of” when you say it fast) rather than what makes sense
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That’s probably more of a typo than an autocorrect thing. The O and I are next to each other on the keyboard, and if your typing finger isn’t a skinny little stylus, you can sometimes accidentally hit the I on the tiny cellphone keyboard when you actually mean to hit the O. Happens to me, with my short stubby fingers, all the time. I always have to edit before sending.
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HurlWurk 1 year ago
It's one duck that is a cluster, that's how you end up with Biblically accurate Angels.
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
I've copied this from Google: Clusterduck is about hatching as many ducks as possible. As more ducks hatch, the more strange things happen. The ducks begin to genetically mutate!
Eric Williams 1 year ago
a cluster of people ducking at the same time (for reasons that are far too prevalent nowadays.)
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
*stares at the darkened corner of the room with her tail wound up tightly*
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MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
I want to have a cadbury crime egg! Actually...nevermind, remembered that murder is a crime.
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OmMi 1 year ago
No no no, that would completely change the meaning of "I rode my friend's car"
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
"The cat in front of me honked as soon as the red light appeared."
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Tiny Dynamine 1 year ago
Mine always changes 'tonight' to Toni. As if that's more likely I'm going to write that. I accepted it once now it won't stop doing it. Plus it always takes me the first four letters of my name till it finally suggests it. Why does it never learn what it's supposed to?!
Emotionally unstable elephant 1 year ago
Do public speaking. Was excited at the prospect of Nats (Nationals). Autocorrect: So you mean bats, right? You're excited about possibly qualifying for bats?
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
How do elephants feel about bats in general? We cats find it unfair when mice grow wings.
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Kris 1 year ago
My first thought when I saw this post: «what the he|| is X?!» Then I remembered ☹️
Tempest 1 year ago
I got a new phone and was dropping a text to a guy friend of mine whose name starts from P and it autocorrected his name to princess so the message started with a “Hey Princess”. I saw the autocorrect mistake before I hit send but I found it so hilarious that I just sent him that autocorrected message with an explanation. I hope autocorrect didn’t hurt his ego calling him a princess!
persistant panda 1 year ago
Autocorrect changed "Thanks" to "Dance" - Didn't have the guts to send the pizza-order like that. Now I wonder... Maybe it would have made someone smile or actually dance. 🍕🕺
Jules (they/them) 1 year ago
My phone will sometimes (often and random enough that it is very irritating) change "he" to "Heather" which technically I DO have an Aunt Heather but I am more likely to use a pronoun than I am going to talk about my aunt...
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Looking at some of these, I worry about the mental health of the people programming auto-incorrect. (And yes, what you're seeing is what I typed intentionally.)
Whitney Earl 1 year ago
Mine changed a text to my older boss from" I'm so sorry" to "I'm so dirty " and the rest of that day was VERY awkward even though I instantly corrected it. It was too late....... FAR too late!!! 😂
Tiny Dynamine 1 year ago
Mine always changes 'tonight' to Toni. As if that's more likely I'm going to write that. I accepted it once now it won't stop doing it. Plus it always takes me the first four letters of my name till it finally suggests it. Why does it never learn what it's supposed to?!
Emotionally unstable elephant 1 year ago
Do public speaking. Was excited at the prospect of Nats (Nationals). Autocorrect: So you mean bats, right? You're excited about possibly qualifying for bats?
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
How do elephants feel about bats in general? We cats find it unfair when mice grow wings.
Load More Replies... Kris 1 year ago
My first thought when I saw this post: «what the he|| is X?!» Then I remembered ☹️
Tempest 1 year ago
I got a new phone and was dropping a text to a guy friend of mine whose name starts from P and it autocorrected his name to princess so the message started with a “Hey Princess”. I saw the autocorrect mistake before I hit send but I found it so hilarious that I just sent him that autocorrected message with an explanation. I hope autocorrect didn’t hurt his ego calling him a princess!
persistant panda 1 year ago
Autocorrect changed "Thanks" to "Dance" - Didn't have the guts to send the pizza-order like that. Now I wonder... Maybe it would have made someone smile or actually dance. 🍕🕺
Jules (they/them) 1 year ago
My phone will sometimes (often and random enough that it is very irritating) change "he" to "Heather" which technically I DO have an Aunt Heather but I am more likely to use a pronoun than I am going to talk about my aunt...
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Looking at some of these, I worry about the mental health of the people programming auto-incorrect. (And yes, what you're seeing is what I typed intentionally.)
Whitney Earl 1 year ago
Mine changed a text to my older boss from" I'm so sorry" to "I'm so dirty " and the rest of that day was VERY awkward even though I instantly corrected it. It was too late....... FAR too late!!! 😂
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