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iOS is famous for its Damn You Autocorrect fun, but the way it does it is also very powerful and helps to speed typing immensely. Sailfish offers the word you probably meant at the top of typing, but you have to be focusing well to realise you need to pick it up, and it doesn't work well with punctuation (you need to select the word first, then backspace, then punctuation). This reduces typing fluidity and speed. On iOS hitting space or punctuation will, by default, use the word you probably meant. This works surprisingly well and most of the time you can just type away and let the device figure out what you meant. Yes, sometimes it gets it wrong, but the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

The N9 also had this option, although it was not on by default.

Not having this means typing on Jolla is clearly slower than on my iPhone or N9.

iOS is famous for its Damn You Autocorrect fun, but the way it does it is also very powerful and helps to speed typing immensely. Sailfish offers the word you probably meant at the top of typing, but you have to be focusing well to realise you need to pick it up, and it doesn't work well with punctuation (you need to select the word first, then backspace, then punctuation). This reduces typing fluidity and speed. On iOS hitting space or punctuation will, by default, use the word you probably meant. This works surprisingly well and most of the time you can just type away and let the device figure out what you meant. Yes, sometimes it gets it wrong, but the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

The N9 also had this option, although it was not on by default.

Not having this means typing on Jolla is clearly slower than on my iPhone or N9.

iOS is famous for its Damn You Autocorrect fun, but the way it does it is also very powerful and helps to speed typing immensely. Sailfish offers the word you probably meant at the top of typing, but you have to be focusing well to realise you need to pick it up, and it doesn't work well with punctuation (you need to select the word first, then backspace, then punctuation). This reduces typing fluidity and speed. On iOS hitting space or punctuation will, by default, use the word you probably meant. This works surprisingly well and most of the time you can just type away and let the device figure out what you meant. Yes, sometimes it gets it wrong, but the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

The N9 also had this option, although it was not on by default.

Not having this means typing on Jolla is clearly slower than on my iPhone or N9.