Why Apple Autocorrects 'omw' to 'On my way!'

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Ай бұрын

If you’ve tried letting someone know that you’re on your way with a quick omw text on an iPhone, you were probably surprised to see the abbreviation autocorrect to ‘on my way’ with an explanation point. This is caused a lot of frustration. Since people who typically abbreviate their messages don’t want to sound that enthusiastic about something so mundane. Plus, other text abbreviations like lol or smh don’t autocorrect to ‘laughing out loud’ or ‘shaking my head.’

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@AppleExplained Ай бұрын

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@Username-vb9if Ай бұрын

have u though!!!????

@Notusia Ай бұрын

@@Username-vb9ifhi

@Username-vb9if Ай бұрын

@@Notusiaheyy! On my way!

@fartfart7488 Ай бұрын

The airpods pro 2 don't come with stickers 😢

@Brixster Ай бұрын

On my way!

@razberrypi Ай бұрын

I like that Apple is so confusing that there's a whole channel explaining their decisions

@TotallyNothing1 Ай бұрын

Estoy triste porque ni siquiera tengo una sub 😢😢😢

@nesquix926 Ай бұрын

LMAOOOOOOO

@0-_.Pear._-0 Ай бұрын

@@TotallyNothing1buddy! You have 500+, this is also irrelevant

@itsfletch Ай бұрын

@@TotallyNothing1 ok

@robblequoffle8456 Ай бұрын

@@TotallyNothing1 llorar más fuerte

@TheWhiteDot95 Ай бұрын

The horses are galloping at rapid and exquist speed, perhaps I shall arrive shortly.

@Player-fg4ub Ай бұрын

underrated comment

@DanialYT Ай бұрын

this op

@nicolascuellonunez812 Ай бұрын

The horses are galloping at precarious speeds… perhaps I may arrive soon

@cellularrepublic1 Ай бұрын

Yes

@SierraLeoneMediaConsumer Ай бұрын

The horses are galloping at precarious speed! i perhaps shall arrive soon.

@funny3176 Ай бұрын

im On my way! to yell at apple for this

@PurePain_1 21 күн бұрын

😂

@gamingwithpapaandfriends 20 күн бұрын

On my way! bruh.

@gamingwithpapaandfriends 20 күн бұрын

omw to turn it off

@American_avation 19 күн бұрын

On my way! To your house

@anabelle.444 19 күн бұрын

On my way! To prison rn

@ViolyreArt Ай бұрын

i think it's funny to leave it there so my texts correct to something like "ill be On my way! in 10 min"

@HI01.0 Ай бұрын

apple does NOT need to be doing this i am NOT that excited 💀

@realjosephseed Ай бұрын

Laughing out loud!

@ninethetwotailedfox Ай бұрын

Pretty sure it came out in iOS 5 but I see your point.. Rolling On The Floor

@wazoomy Ай бұрын

I Know Right!

@killertruth186 Ай бұрын

Imagine if a friend prank you with those types of texts.

@ChristopherBCardenas Ай бұрын

Laughing my ass off!

@FormalSnake Ай бұрын

When I say omw it autocorrects to: Verily, I am upon my journey forthwith, making haste towards my destination with all due diligence and resolve.

@CyrilHul Ай бұрын

Ah, the eternal saga of autocorrect woes! I as well try to convey "omw," however as such it transmogrifies into a verbose declaration of my imminent journey, adorned with grandiosity and antiquated charm. Same tale of linguistic mischief here! Foretold by the ancient autocorrect scrolls…

@theunderratedvloger2529 Ай бұрын

Omg that sounds good job you have a bit more to me than I thought you would have been a good one for a bit more to do with you knowing that I don't know how I can find a new theme for the house

@blokos_ Ай бұрын

@@theunderratedvloger2529are you okay

@Gabethedoggo Ай бұрын

On my way! I’m in a a bit of pain and I am so not worried but I’m just going in the sun for a a while now and I will be able and all to the sun.

@JuanTheBuan Ай бұрын

@@theunderratedvloger2529 oil up

@MadamStrawberry Ай бұрын

I like how universally, the KZbin algorithm has just happened to showcase this video to us because since this morning, it was at a couple ten thousand, and now it's at 120k views.

@CarbonCodm Ай бұрын

@JJZJ. Ай бұрын

@BlueCrystalAnimatez Ай бұрын

lmaoo now its at 148k 11 hrs later

@rinsbestfriend Ай бұрын

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@TheGrammarPolice7 Ай бұрын

*... how, universally, the... If you're gonna put a comma after "universally," you need one before it too. These are called bracketing commas. It's illegal to write one without the other.

@astrea5849 Ай бұрын

changed mine to: Hark! As the rooster's call heralds the morn, I set forth upon the ancient trodden path, where shadows dance with the whispers of ages past, my soul bound to the distant horizon's embrace.

@dylansmith2550 Ай бұрын

Hark!

@Aura_9275 20 күн бұрын

Hark! As the rooster's call heralds the morn, I set forth upon the ancient trodden path, where shadows dance with the whispers of ages past, my soul bound to the distant horizon's embrace.

@Yakerbb Ай бұрын

always wondered why my weed dealer was so enthusiastic....

@maxsanby9974 Ай бұрын

oohhhh! WAIT WHAT?!

@dr_mafarioyt4313 Ай бұрын

@@maxsanby9974 Wait, wdym? ... Oh, his curisity, yeah I guess it would be a bit odd to care about something like that, I feel youre exaderated response is a bit out of place though

@MashupMboy Ай бұрын

On my way!

@MashupMboy Ай бұрын

Kyosuke

@shrndrni Ай бұрын

@@dr_mafarioyt4313dude what are you babbling on about i want to r/wooosh you but at this point its just sad

@qwertydied Ай бұрын

On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! bro wtf apple 😭

@KestlerTV Ай бұрын

On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way! On my way!

@tsymeh Ай бұрын

omw

@tsymeh Ай бұрын

omów

@spontaneously_coumbust-.387 Ай бұрын

On my way!

@thomas965o Ай бұрын

On my way!

@shin-vs2rz Ай бұрын

cant believe this dude forgot this, im gonna send "smh" "Due to your unbelievable actions, I am deeply ashamed and disappointed of you, leading me to shake my head vigorously."

@MishaGold Ай бұрын

Cool yoki pfp

@James2210 Ай бұрын

Shaking My Head!

@fandroid6491 Ай бұрын

So much hate?

@ConchitaMasterofGraveyard Ай бұрын

@@fandroid6491 its a joke

@shin-vs2rz Ай бұрын

@@fandroid6491 huh this is a joke i didnt even intend any sense of hate into this wtf

@CapPlayed Ай бұрын

ive knew this for a long time this is also the feature people use for one trend, “the cops are watching us” then it autocorrects to “no we arent”

@momocV6 Ай бұрын

Got the same thing here in french, when you type "jrv", it autocorrects to "J’arrive !"

@AdminHouse Ай бұрын

@@marckenson305 who got bro so mad like chill out💀

@x.infinix.x Ай бұрын

@marckenson305 bro chill

@swervo9033 Ай бұрын

Apple dsign???

@gonum1922 Ай бұрын

@@marckenson305we don’t give a duck

@Ice_Animates Ай бұрын

@@marckenson305what is bro getting so pressed about

@frankchavez5930 Ай бұрын

My phone auto correct it to The horses are galloping at precarious speeds perhaps i may arrive soon

@mosa7657 Ай бұрын

Bros using the iPhone napoleon pro max

@techguy6241 Ай бұрын

dip dip dip dip dip

@TheChristoAlex Ай бұрын

@@techguy6241 hahahaha love this reference

@Your_Local_Nerd Ай бұрын

The horses are galloping at precarious speeds perhaps i may arrive soon

@Dontbackflip Ай бұрын

On my way!

@Lunarcreeper Ай бұрын

it's a cool feature ngl, i use it as a kind of permanent clipboard

@GamerX-2000 Ай бұрын

Thanks, that actually helps a lot. I genuinely just planned on leaving that and fighting it since I thought it was just a weird autocorrection thing.

@andrewpinedo1883 Ай бұрын

I play Minecraft and I work with command blocks frequently. Text replacement is a godsend, because I don't have to remember those long and precise commands.

@poyrikkanal Ай бұрын

this is real, i will type “build_house” and it will type out a real long string that will build me a house

@ddylan4cats Ай бұрын

SAME. I’ve made `{place` expand to `{“minecraft:can_place_on”:{“blocks”:[“”]}}`, (for items with JSON parameters) `//vision` expand to `/effect @p night_vision 99999 1 true`, (for night vision) and `.traw` expand to `/tellraw @a {“rawtext”:[{“text”:””}]}` (for the tellraw command)

@SonicXRage Ай бұрын

You're playing on Mac? That's cool how macOS is giving you an advantage in programming command blocks over Windows. Not that it wouldn't be easy to create a similar solution for Windows users.

@andrewpinedo1883 Ай бұрын

@@SonicXRage I play on MCPE, but yeah. It's interesting that Minecraft players on Apple devices have an advantage over their Microsoft counterparts, because of this one little feature.

@cyr0_gd Ай бұрын

@@SonicXRage That isn't just on iphone. That feature exists on almost all devices that you can type messages and stuff. also no one has advantage over anything in this case. I think microsoft has Block Bench and Its own VSC extension to make minecraft modding/datapack easier. which is also available on mac

@EVILBUNNY28 Ай бұрын

Nah the most annoying one is atm correcting to at the moment. Like I wanna talk about cash from an atm, or if I’m genuinely talking about at the moment atm just reads quicker

@nutella_wewerehere Ай бұрын

that’s not a default. You might want to check your Text Replacement settings and remove that, because that means that either somebody added it to your phone or you added it a long time ago & forgot, because that is not a default text replacement like omw is 💀💀

@redfive5856 Ай бұрын

@@nutella_wewerehere Yes. That's what I use atm for too.

@michaelsegal3558 Ай бұрын

I taking money out of the at the moment machine haha

@myersbob7517 Ай бұрын

That doesn’t happen to me

@whyrwehere Ай бұрын

I just make it autocorrect to Automic Teller Machine

@blackmber Ай бұрын

Last I checked you can also add words or phrases without an abbreviation, so when you start typing it you will get the option to autocomplete. I think it’s helpful for unusual names or jargon that usually get autocorrected to something else.

@crystanova Ай бұрын

this was so strange for me cuz i remember setting omw to 'On my way!' MANUALLY because i had a crush back then and i wanted to sound enthusiastic about meeting her, but then im so confused now cuz its happening to everyone

@CelesteWuff Ай бұрын

we gettin to the real basics with this one

@Allenz2205 Ай бұрын

Honestly, I didnt even know about this, and this video made me go to my phone settings and remove the omw text replacement lol, so it was actually very helpful

@cameronball3998 Ай бұрын

eh i actually was intrigued by this, i removed the autocorrect long ago but never thought about why it was a default in the first place

@TotallyNothing1 Ай бұрын

Estoy triste porque ni siquiera tengo una sub 😢😢😢

@breaktrace Ай бұрын

@@TotallyNothing1 Entonces hace contenido que la gente le guste en vez de estar en los comentarios haciendote el penoso.

@glowzinho104 Ай бұрын

my keyboard is in Portuguese and it corrects "fds" to "fim de semana" (which means "weekend"), and it's frustrating because "fds" is used as an abbreviation of a swear word in Portuguese and it gets autocorrected to weekend. and no, i didn't get it first try

@brunocamposquenaoeoyoutuber Ай бұрын

🇧🇷 Tenha um bom f*da-se!

@Imamotherfreakingavocado Ай бұрын

I genuinely do not understand how people keep their autocorrect on, I turned it off and never looked back, it's annoying as heck to have to go back and fight with my phone to not correct something 😭

@mcsy98 Ай бұрын

exactly! and sometimes i want to keep my own misspellings because they’re funny or are intended in the context 😭😭

@kzkaa. Ай бұрын

@@mcsy98 This.

@ummtulip 18 күн бұрын

it's because i always misspell everything if i turn it off no one will be able to read what i say 🙏

@lnvald Ай бұрын

On My Way is the achievement you get in Geometry Dash when you beat back on track on practice mode, it gives you a cool blueish color

@JunkionMarnot2005 Ай бұрын

Once again, another mystery solved. Thanks Greg. Found this out a few years ago, but glad to see your take on it.

@nicolascuellonunez812 Ай бұрын

I’ve replaced my omw to say the following: “The horses are galloping at precarious speeds… perhaps I may arrive soon”

@Supimbackwiththemilk Ай бұрын

LAUGHING MY ASS OFF

@mason2699 Ай бұрын

LAUGHING OUT LOUD

@ConchitaMasterofGraveyard Ай бұрын

Due to your unbelivable, obnoxious actions, i am very, very disapointed in your behavior as i shake my head because of pure disapointement (if u guessed, it was ''smh'')

@Riv3rz Ай бұрын

My charriot is moving at a speedy momentum, perhaps I will be arriving at the castle shortly. Eat that apple

@nixsonhenderson Ай бұрын

Bro unintentionally just made the best tutorial ever

@TheSektorz Ай бұрын

this dude is stretching for ducking content at this point

@PrincessShokora2002 Ай бұрын

Ikr

@chnacee Ай бұрын

and yet you still clicked, watched and even commented 💀

@sockless4456 Ай бұрын

@@chnacee pretty sure he was making an autocorrect joke lmao

@DogeMaster Ай бұрын

helpful video though, some of us just wanna type a ducking word!

@Eterna_B0i Ай бұрын

@@chnaceehe was making a ducking joke

@patrickSTAR05 Ай бұрын

I knew exactly what this video was going to talk about and I still watched it

@uni5396. Ай бұрын

the On my way! text replacement makes me and my friends giggle so hard we love it

@LarsIIJalani Ай бұрын

I am presently embarked upon an odyssey, traversing the labyrinthine byways of existence, surmounting innumerable obstacles, and navigating the vast and ineffable expanse of space-time with an indomitable resolve, all with the singular and unwavering determination of reaching the exact and specified coordinates you have meticulously designated!

@Mertanian Ай бұрын

The funny thing is that this feature is present for other dictionaries as well, and I found it relatively quickly after switching to iPhone. The abbreviation is not used in my native language but the two letters are commonly used in longer words, so it's easy to stumble upon this feature when typing slowly. It's for a similar phrase as well, and only for that one. I always wondered why this one in particular, especially since the phrase is not that popular to begin with. But it served it's purpose, I learned about the feature quickly, but anyway, never added own abbreviations

@SigmaRho2922 Ай бұрын

I use text replacement feature to express irregular verbs in the preterite in Spanish. For example, if the word conducí is typed, apple can sometimes autocrrect it to conduje. The former is commonly misinterpreted as the yo form in the preterite, but it is actually the voseo form in the present tense. The main purpose of text replacement on apple devices is to autocorrect mistyped Spanish verb conjugations.

@bruh15495 Ай бұрын

I think it is fixed, instead of it saying “On my way” it says “I am deeply concerned, dear, that you have a disease. May god bless you my dear.”

@blazejmiroslaw Ай бұрын

I once used this feature to pass my coding exam. We all knew what we need to learn for this exam but this was just too much and I didn't want to remember everything, but luckily I could write the code on my mac during the exam. So I just binded the whole code we needed to learn to some shortcut like "qrtw" or something like that, and then just typed that when the teacher wasn't looking. After few simple tweaks everything worked just fine :))

@thomasdauenhauer1419 Ай бұрын

Thanks man, this actually helped me lol. I was thinking about this the other day😂

@LeahDykema Ай бұрын

I personally love this feature and I’ve got a huge list in there for all my text replacement so I can I out the jumble of letters and have it come out looking professional still and actually readable. Wish more used this feature because about 80% of the time I’m looking up what smh or others like it stand for.

@ictogon Ай бұрын

smh my head

@LeahDykema Ай бұрын

@@ictogon I just had to look up smh again

@akunbora Ай бұрын

I just realized it’s ‘omw', because in my region, everyone uses ‘otw’ (on the way) instead.

@caseyhamm4292 Ай бұрын

the exclamation point does it for me. like if it just said on my way it would be one thing but the exclamation point makes me wanna say ‘nvm i actually have to cringe in bed all day’

@DavidKen878 Ай бұрын

This is why I use Google's Gboard. Not only is the swipe function 100x better, but you can customize the font of the letters and background of the keyboard.

@turtle945 Ай бұрын

the emoji kitchen is mankind's greatest creation

@DavidKen878 Ай бұрын

@@turtle945 Apple's or Google's?

@turtle945 Ай бұрын

@@DavidKen878 Isnt it a gboard thing

@fandroid6491 Ай бұрын

@@turtle945 It is

@Cashcorn Ай бұрын

THANK YOU! This showed up in my recommended and I didn’t know this was something that could be turned off

@jonathancineus6424 Ай бұрын

😳 This is probably the most useful Apple Explained video yet. I didn’t know I could delete that stupid auto-correct, and I just solved a problem I’ve hated for years!

@eeveethehedgehog6038 Ай бұрын

Suggestion: why keyboard clicks suddenly become loud

@Lunarcreeper Ай бұрын

i found out why, if the video ends while the keyboard is open it does that, no idea why.

@-V01D Ай бұрын

that actually worked- wow- but there’s times where the keyboard is like- WAY WAY LOUDER

@itsokayrozay Ай бұрын

I have over 200+ text replacement words on my iPhone

@TheLegendryZelda Ай бұрын

Do you use them all? 😆

@itsokayrozay Ай бұрын

@@TheLegendryZelda Yes I do.

@Pigpugborj Ай бұрын

@@itsokayrozaywhat’s your favorite/most useful replacement? I’m looking to add a few myself lol.

@ummtulip 18 күн бұрын

@@Pigpugborji have one that autocorrects 3 letters into my icloud address bc it's long and i don't wanna type allat

@worldtourmango2 9 күн бұрын

Mine corrects to “Goodbye!I shall see you characteristic figure another day at the forest-looking park that is in the beautiful fields of flowers and trees.Again,i should greet you with a pleasing goodbye statement.”