How to stop iPhone from using “wanna” and “gonna” in text

And same responses.

Merriam-Webster (an American dictionary, mind you) recently approved ending sentences with prepositions.

And don't get me started on words such as "combo" (that isn't even an abbreviation of "combination" - shouldn't it be "combi"?)

Limnos wrote:

Merriam-Webster (an American dictionary, mind you) recently approved ending sentences with prepositions.

Ending sentences with prepositions was always acceptable in English until John Dryden and Joshua Poole, among others, decided that English should adhere to rules of Latin grammar. From them, we also get such silliness as the prohibition against "split infinitives".

And don't get me started on words such as "combo" (that isn't even an abbreviation of "combination" - shouldn't it be "combi"?)

I still want to know why it's "explanation" and not "explaination".

I invite you to read posts about this https://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+gonna+wanna

From what I can glean there is no setting to prevent this. It may to some degree depend upon enunciation (and accent?) The only other advice is to join the people recommending providing feedback to Apple about this.

Product Feedback - Apple

In the past saying "gonna" or "wanna" converted to "going to" and "want to." At some point Apple changed this, and now it typed the words we don't want. This has nothing to do with enunciation. It has all to do with changes made to the dictation software. So don't tell me it has always done "gonna" and "wanna," because it didn't. Apple has slowly destroyed its dictation software, and other companies do it so much better. i.e. snapchat

I agree with you completely. People talk about speaking clearly to get it to stop spelling "wanna", but the problem is that it DEFAULTS to "wanna" and other slang instead of defaulting to correct language. I feel it should default to "want to" and you should have to speak extra clearly for it to spell slang such as "wanna". But no, you have to speak extra clearly to get it to spell correctly instead of using slang.

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Muddycleric wrote:

I agree with you completely. People talk about speaking clearly to get it to stop spelling "wanna", but the problem is that it DEFAULTS to "wanna" and other slang instead of defaulting to correct language. I feel it should default to "want to" and you should have to speak extra clearly for it to spell slang such as "wanna". But no, you have to speak extra clearly to get it to spell correctly instead of using slang.

I don't use the dictation feature very frequently (not at all in the past 3 years), but from what people are saying it sounds like if you want it to produce "want to" then you need to say "want to".

Same issue