iPhone Fail Becomes iPhone Win At ‘Damn You Auto Correct!’

Alexia Tsotsis

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

It ducking sucks when you’re texting really fast, all excited about the Giants winning NLCS game 6, and your iPhone’s spelling auto correct turns homerun hitter Juan Uribe’s last name into “urine.” We’ve all been there.

Because iPhone spellcheck failure is such a widespread phenomenon, some genius has created an entire site devoted to screencaps of ridiculous auto correct suggestions, called appropriately “Damn You Auto Correct.”

Hilarity aside, for those of you sick of typing in your girlfriend’s name (Christine) only to get another more inappropriate c-word, here’s instructions for using Safari to make your unruly iPhone to type what you want, damn it.

Thanks: @ieure

Product: iPhone
Website: apple.com
Company Apple

Apple’s iPhone was introduced at MacWorld in January 2007 and officially went on sale June 29, 2007, selling 146,000 units within the first weekend of launch. The phone has been hailed as revolutionary with its bundle of advanced mobile web browsing, music and video playback, and touch screen controls. The iPhone is exclusively carried on the networks of both AT&T and Verizon in the U.S. An iPhone can function as a video camera (video recording was not a standard feature...

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