Why does my ipad change my photo titles?
QI went to a lunch celebration in Looe, Cornwall. I printed some photographs I had taken and put a title on them with the location. To my annoyance, on examining the photos I see my ipad had changed the title from ‘Looe’ to ‘Love’, so the title reads ‘Love lunch’. Also, if I type a capital ‘P’ then the ipad changes it to ‘QP’. I’ve been into the Settings app and disabled Auto-Capitalisation, Auto-correction, Shortcut and Predictive, but it will not be told! Come back, my old mechanical typewriter — all is forgiven! Adrien Willcocks
AThis is certainly odd, though one possible explanation is that you’re using a physical keyboard attached to the ipad. When used in this way, the keyboard will adhere to its own settings. So, if you have one attached, tap Settings followed by General and then Hardware Keyboard. Now look for settings there to disable predictive text and the auto-correction.
Another possibility — albeit an unlikely one — is that some mischief-maker has messed with your ipad’s Text Replacement feature, so that the ipad will replace certain words or letters regardless of all the other settings you mention. To see what’s what, tap Settings followed by Keyboard and then Text Replacement (see screenshot below). If you see any rogue entries, tap Edit and then tap the red minus alongside the offenders.