Yikes. This is the second keyboard tweak I’ve posted in the last few days, although unlike ShowCase, ManualCorrect from Aaron Lindsay could have a major impact on how you type on your iPhone.
The default auto correction system works well 90% of the time for me, but there are also moments where I feel I’ll get “sniped” at the end of a sentence as I type cuss words and have them turn into “duck” or “shut”…and there’s nothing more infuriating than your own cellphone censoring you as you try to swear.
This problem stems from the fact that Apple expects you to trust the auto correction system to simply get things right for you (this could be said for any of Apple’s designs, really), but the system isn’t nearly as flexible as it should be, and it’s actually very unintuitive when it comes to undoing a correction (you have to press backspace after a correction and then tap on the floating pop-up of the word you actually typed).
ManualCorrect, on the other hand, tends to give you the benefit of the doubt when it comes to your typing. I’m not sure how I’ll feel about it in the long run, but it has felt like a breath of fresh air so far, because of the way it inverts Apple’s own auto correction system.
Instead of having your words replaced the moment you press space or return, ManualCorrect requires that you tap on the floating pop-up above the word to approve the correction. This means a little more work overall — especially since the pop-ups could be anywhere on-screen, based on where your text input marker is — but ManualCorrect completely eliminates those situations where you’ll be corrected at the very last second as you send a text message.
The tweak is freely available on Cydia, and I definitely think it’s worth a shot, if only to see what typing on the iPhone could have been like.
[By the way, let me stop you before you ask: my Cydia isn’t actually ad-free. I just cropped the ads out for a cleaner screenshot.]
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