Who has not happened to him that the autocorrect of his smartphone has come to life and has decided to change the words of a sentence to say what he liked? The autocorrect of a mobile device is one of those things that we love and hate in equal measure. Automatic correction allows us to write much faster without almost looking at what we write, but it can happen that in its corrections it includes something that we did not want to write and totally changes the meaning of a sentence.
It seems like Tim Cook and his team have had these kinds of issues too, so they've been working on a method to avoid confusion that they can get us in a big trouble. To do this, Apple has patented a very simple system: when a word has been modified by the autocorrect, it will be marked so that the recipient of the message knows that the word has not been typed manually. In this way, if the meaning of the phrase does not seem the most appropriate, our contact will already know who to blame.
Patent to avoid confusion with the Autocorrect
At this time, the system can underline some words in blue when you are not sure if they are correct or not, something that we will see more often when we have entered a text via voice dictation. The problem is that this type of mark is only seen in the sender's message and before sending the text. Apple's idea would be to use something similar, but the blue line (or another color) would also be seen by the recipient of the message once it has been sent.
The receiver of the message will be able to know that a word has been modified, but will not be able to see what the original word has been, for which Apple already recommends that you ask the sender. What is not entirely clear is whether this system would underline all the words it corrected or only those for which it is not sure whether the correction was correct. To get out of doubt, we will have to wait, first to see if they use this patent and second to see how it works. Will we see it in iOS 10?