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Want to teach your iPhone a thing or two? Turns out that currently, there’s only one way to teach your iPhone new words. Sadly, it’s not screaming at it repeatedly, nor is it typing the same words over an over again. No, you’ll have to Google it.
Apparently, the only way to add new words permanently to the iPhone’s built in dictionary is to search for them with Google in Safari. If you try to add new words in other programs, you will fail. But the fine folks over at ArsTechnica discovered that using Google to search for “new” words actually forced the iPhone to retain them permanently.
This is a pretty useful tip, especially if you have a last name like Gaecke and you’re sick of the iPhone suggesting you don’t know how to spell your own name. Or, you could take the path of the Ars crew and teach it some other custom words…like Ars…or Appletell.
Via [ArsTechnica]
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This isn’t as effective as the reason you stated Jack, but the iPhone also remembers spellings of names in your Contacts list. Although you obviously don’t want your contacts looking like a foreign language dictionary, it is a working option to remember words. :)
on January 20, 2009 at 03:39 PM - LINK