I'm bilingual and write approximately the same amount of messages in both languages using iOS. Autocorrect always suggests words from BOTH languages mid sentence. Like what the hell, they should be able to infer which language I'm using just from the first word.
On a day to day basis I do use 4 different languages, sometimes even mixing them in a single conversation (i.e the other person is bi/trilingual too). For me the autocorrection is only a distant dream and will probably remain so for a long time.
That sort of makes sense. I am not sure of it's prevalence, but at least for Indians, it's pretty common to code switch while writing (even more so while speaking).
Yes, I only speak one language fluently but I'll still arbitrarily code switch sometimes.
Human language is actually just one vast system, it isn't best understood as a bunch of nicely compartmentalized independent languages. So in a way it would actually be more wrong for an AI model to insist that "Beacoup money" isn't a reasonable thing for the user to want to write, just because those two vocabulary words don't co-exist in a single defined language. The user may or may not know that, but they certainly don't care.
The Swype app used to be so much better at this, but Google had to go and buy it, retire the product and absorb none of its algorithms into Gboard. Such a loss.
I write three different languages on a daily basis, and I've always had autocorrection switched off because it has never worked for me. Also, how is an autocorrect supposed to know whether you are writing a technical term / acronym / etc and not an actual word?
