iOS is designed to learn things that have been typed before

Dec 29, 2014 15:35 GMT  ·  By

Ever wonder “how the heck does my iPhone know what I want to type before I even hit the second character?” Everyone does, at a certain point. But it all has to do with how you trained it.

Redditor bigmacboy78 uploaded this funny screenshot up on imgur.com showing that iOS seemingly knows when to suggest the proper noun “Flying Spaghetti Monster,” which describes a Pastafarianism deity thought up by Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a means of protest against the Kansas State Board of Education’s decision to allow teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public schools.

Before it goes viral the way it’s been presented, let me just say that iOS has been designed by Apple – without a doubt intelligently – to remember the things you type on your iDevice so that it can suggest those words in the future. For typing convenience.

I’ll admit it’s a bit strange this image depicts iOS using capitalization, denoting it fetched the info from a database somewhere, but we have no guarantee this person hasn’t already typed “Flying Spaghetti Monster” one or two times before. Actually, we do. In the last text bubble down.

Plus it looks more like an iOS 7 autocorrect suggestion (not an iOS 8 Quick Type enhancement), which further strengthens my belief that this person has “taught” his / her iPhone to suggest that proper noun.

Flying Spaghetti Monster (2 Images)

iOS (autocorrect) screenshot
Arne Niklas Jansson, Touched by His Noodly Appendage, a parody of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam"
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